
Joe Bradley
Good World
2017
Oil on canvas
86 1/8 x 75 x 2 1/8 inches
218.8 x 190.5 x 5.4 cm
Joe Bradley (b. 1975, Kittery, ME)
Joe Bradley was born 1975 in Kittery, ME and currently lives and works in New York. The artist had his first gallery exhibition in New York after earning his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999. It was just three years later that he had his first solo museum show at MoMA PS1. Bradley has been the subject of solo exhibitions at museums including Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, US (2017); Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US (2017); Bozar / Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE (2017); and Le Consortium, Dijon, FR (2014). Major institutional group exhibitions include Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT, US (2018); New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE (2015); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US (2014); and EXPO 1: NEW YORK, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1, Long Island, NY, US (2013). Bradley’s work was also included in the Whitney Biennial 2008, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US (2008).
“Although Bradley uses difference to destabilize concepts such as identity, epistemic certainty, and univocal meaning, it is important to recognize that he is not motivated to do so by postmodern nostalgia. ‘As a person, I don’t think I’m nostalgic for any particular era,’ he reaffirmed in 2016.”
-Gavin Delahunty, “Joe Bradley: The Resistance is Neutral”
Installation view of the 2008 Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 6–June 1, 2008).
1999 Earns BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
2002 First solo museum exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York
2008 Modular “robot” paintings are in- cluded in the Whitney Biennial, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, and overseen by Donna de Salvo
2008 Debuts Schmagoo Paintings with CANADA, New York
2010 Solo exhibition FREEKS opens at Peres Projects, Berlin
2011 Premieres Human Form paintings at CANADA, New York
Mouth and Foot Painting opens at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2013 Included in EXPO 1: NEW YORK, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1, Long Island, NY
Installation view, The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA, Dec 14, 2014–Apr 5, 2015
2014 Included in The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal
World, curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solo exhibition at Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2015 Two-person show with Matt Connors: NEW YORK PAINTING,
Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2016 Solo exhibition opens at Gagosian, New York
Solo exhibition with Bozar / Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Solo exhibitions with Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, Massachusetts and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2020 Solo exhibition Sub Ek at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2021 Joins Petzel Gallery
Debut at Petzel Gallery, included in Time-Slip, Petzel, New York
2022 Solo debut exhibition at Petzel