Katherine Bradford

Painter Katherine Bradford (born 1942) lives in New York City with her wife of 30 years and spends her summers in Maine, where she lived year-round in the 1970s. It was at that time she began painting, and was one of the founding members of the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). She wrote art reviews for the Maine Times and had her first solo show at Corsican Pizza in Brunswick. She has since had solo shows at the Museum of Art in Fort Worth, TX, and at Sperone Westwater in New York City, among others, and has been featured in group shows at institutions such as MoMA P.S. 1, New Orleans Prospect.4, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She has taught widely, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is included in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.