b. 1982,USA. Currently lives and works in Chicago, USA.
Chris Bradley (b.1982) has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Ackerman Clarke Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Shane Campbell Gallery, Roberto Paradise, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Raleigh, and has been included in group shows at the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023, the Renaissance Society, Atlanta Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the NRW-Forum. He received his MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Meier Achievement Award. In addition to his studio practice, he is an instructor of sculpture at both SAIC and the University of Chicago. Over the past two decades, Bradley has developed a sculptural language around representation, poetics of ordinary subjects, trompe l’oeil techniques, and exhibition as site for the imagination. He aims to use this creative language to encourage his audience to practice the suspension of disbelief as a method for reconsidering and understanding this shared common world.
EDUCATION
2010 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
2005 University of Michigan, BFA
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solo presentation at NADA Foreland with Ackerman Clarke, USA
2022 Tilting Toward Windmills, We Become the Wind, Ackerman Clarke, Chicago, USA
2022 Solo presentation at Barely Fair (Chicago) with Hans Gallery, USA
2021 Solo presentation at NADA House (Governors Island, NYC) with Ackerman Clarke, USA
2018 Chris Bradley, Mark Klassen, Backspace Gallery, Northern Illinois University, USA
2017 Chicago Works: Chris Bradley, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago curated by Joey Orr, USA
2017 TBD, Shane Campbell Gallery - Lincoln Park, USA
2016 Ceilings, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
2015 Chris Bradley, Alex Chitty, Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, USA
2014 Freezer Fever, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
2013 Chris Bradley, Tony Lewis, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA
2012 Close One, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, USA
2011 Quiet Company, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
2011 Chris Bradley, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Chicago Architectural Biennial 5: This Is a Rehearsal, USA
2022 NADA Miami, Ackerman Clarke, USA
2021 Usual Objects, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, USA
2021 NADA Miami, Ackerman Clarke, USA
2020 Artist Run Chicago 2.0, Hyde Park Art Center, USA
2019 100 Sculptures Anonymous Gallery, Traveling show: Mexico City/Paris/Los Angeles/New York
2019 With A Capital P: Selections from Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, USA
2019 Only Human, Hans Gallery, Chicago, USA
2018 PIZZA IS GOD, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2017 99 Cents, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA
2016 The Coldest Winter, a summer group show, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2016 Grey, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Brand New Gallery, Milan IT
2016 Know Yourself, The Luminary, St. Louis, USA
2016 Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
2016 Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Roberto Paradise, USA
2015 A Posture of Latency, curated by Kirsten Harkonen and Robin Juan, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
2015 Winners and Llamas, Paper Agency, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Frieze New York, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2015 NADA New York, Roberto Paradise Gallery, USA
2015 Teen Paranormal Romance, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, USA
2015 Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
2015 Key Figures, Adams and Ollman, Portland OR, USA
2015 Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2015 Teen Paranormal Romance, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, USA
2014 Teen Paranormal Romance, curated by Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society, USA
2014 Frieze New York, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2014 NADA Miami, Roberto Paradise, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2013 Pizza Time, curated by Vera Neykov, Marlborough Broome Street, NYC, USA
2013 A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, curated by Michelle Grabner, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL, USA
2013 NADA Miami, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
2012 Simulacrum, curated by Michael Goodson, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus OH, USA
2012 NADA Miami, Shane Campbell Gallery, USA
AWARDS
Artist Fellowship, 2020
Illinois Artist Council Agency
Meier Achievement Award, 2017 Recipient
Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Foundation
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago