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Bradford Johnson

Bradford Johnson has been painting now for nearly three decades, exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions and garnering acknowledgements and awards from such prestigious organizations as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and repeated fellowships at the MacDowell & Yaddo Artist Colonies.

His paintings are built-up like the layers of human engagement with a place. They contain artifacts bearing evidence of our consumption and trade, myth and ritual, and even restoration. Underneath his work lays religious and humanistic themes.

EDUCATION

  • 1994 Hunter College, NYC -MFA 

  • 1987 Wheaton College, IL - BA

  • 1981 Rhode Island School of Design, RI

SELECTED AWARDS/HONORS

  • 2002 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency

  • 2001 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency

  • 2000 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency

  • 1998 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. - grant

  • 1998 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency

  • 1996 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency

  • 1995 MacDowell, Peterborough, NH - residency

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  •     2026, The Long Now, Claire Carino Contemporary, Boston, MA

  • 2024 Currents, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH

  • 2023 A River Twice, RSM Art Gallery, Bentley University, Waltham, MA

  • 2017 Year of the Monster, Barrington Gallery Gordon College, Wenham MA

  • 2015 Bodies in a River, John Walford Galleries, Wheaton College, IL 

  • 2014 Spaces Between the Splendor, UniLu Gallery, Cambridge MA

  • 2011 Tangible Dreams of a Dying Explorer, BCA Gallery, Gordon College, Wenham, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2017 WordPlay, Gallery Blink

  • 2016 Print Gallery Blink

  • 2016 Nowhere Now Here, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge Sch. of Weston, Weston MA

  • 2014 Milton Art Museum, Group Show, Canton, MA

  • 2013 Reyonlds Art Gallery, Small Works, New Haven CT 

  • 2012 Reynolds Gallery Vista: A Study of the Land, New Haven CT 

  • 2012 Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA

  • 2012 To Extremes, Public Art in a Changing World, MIT Cambridge, MA 

  • 2007 Tufts University Art Gallery, 4th Annual Summer Exhibition, Medford, MA

  • 2004 GJA Gallery, Regarding What's Past, Chicago, IL

  • 2004 Mills Gallery, BCA, The Drawing Show, Boston, MA

  • 2004 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA

SELECTED REVIEWS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS

Weekend America National Public Radio, January 22, 2005

Chelsea Mertz The Library as an Art Source

Lippincott, Robin Painting Past Photographs, A portfolio by Bradford Johnson 

The Paris Review [Spring 2004, pg 161, number 168]

Millis, Christopher Smash Hits, BCA 18th Annual Drawing Show

The Boston Phoenix [February 13, 2004, pg12]

Camper, Fred Messages in the Medium

The Chicago Reader [August 9, 2002, pg. 20 vol.30 no. 45] 1 reproduction

Weinstein, Michael. Vanishing Point, the Elusive Image

New City, [July 27, 2002 vol. 17, no.738]

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