Katherine Bradford – American Odyssey
New works
Slide show
Katherine Bradford’s thinking always begins with color — it is the start and end point of her work. Here abstract and figurative approaches merge. Here the individual and the communal join. This is the common ground that is explored and formulated anew in every work. Especially in her representations of communities, the direct, crude, and fundamental power, radiance, and potential of color has great significance. The artist further strongly associates color and community with the community of artists that assembles constantly around painting and its histories and stories. In Bradford’s practice, the three terms community, painting, and color act more or less as synonyms, which says much about her artistic work that proceeds from the solitude of daily labor always to gaze at her world, and to work on this with her means in the field of painting. – Sandro Droschl, curator
Katherine Bradford, Figure Walking Out to Sea (detail), 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Figure Walking Out to Sea, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Trio of Swimmers on Blue (detail), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Trio of Swimmers on Blue, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Blue, Horizontal (detail), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 172,7 × 203,2 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford,By the Lighthouse, 2024
182,9 x 172,72 cm
Courtesy Katherine Bradford, New York
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water (detail), 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Standing in Low Water (detail), 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Together, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Friends Together (detail), 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Under Water, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Under Water, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 182,9 × 152,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Carry Painting, Mother, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Carry Painting, Mother (detail), 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 203,2 × 172,7 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Blue Beach Swimmers, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 40,6 × 50,8 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Summer Diver, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 30,5 × 22,9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Diver Dark Waves, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 25,4 × 20,3 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Tidal Pool Swimmers, 2023
/ Acrylic on canvas 22,9 × 30,5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Bed Sitter, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 22,9 × 30,5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Alone with a Shower of Stars, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 35,5 × 27,9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Ocean, Stars, 3 Swimmers, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 35,5 × 27,9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Crossing the Ocean at Night, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 35,5 × 27,9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Pink Beach Shoes, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 35,5 × 27,9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Holding Spheres of Light, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 50,8 × 40,6 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Swimmers in Yellow Light, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 121,92 × 91,44 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Pop Corn, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 101,6 × 76,2 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Traveler’s Paradise, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 121,9 × 91,4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Flight to Venice, 2023
Acrylic on canvas 76,2 × 101,6 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Katherine Bradford, Pink Studio, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 76,2 × 101,6 cm
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York; photo: kunst-dokumentation.com
Artists
Participating artists
Katherine Bradford
Solo (selection): kaufmann repetto, Milan (2024, 2021),Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2024, 2022), Kunsthalle Emden (2024), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023), Canada, New York (2023, 2021, 2018, 2016), Campoli Presti, Paris/London (2023, 2021, 2019), Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg (2023), Portland Museum of Art (2022), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022, with Sedrick Chisom), Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2021), Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge (2021), Adams and Ollman, Portland (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014), Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin (2018, 2017), Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Mailand (2017), Sperone Westwater, New York (2017), The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2017)
Shows (selection): Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2023), Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland (2023, 2021), Kunsthaus Nürnberg (2023), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2023, 2022), Le Consortium, Dijon (2022), Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick (2022, 2019, 2004), Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam/New York (2021, 2019), RISD Museum, Brown University, Providence (2021), Transcend, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile (2021), Pace Gallery, New York (2019), Prospect 4, U.S. Biennial, New Orleans (2017)
Her works are amongst others in the collections of Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, Houston and the Portland Museum of Art.
More contributions
Exhibition Tour
Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales
Video
Diego Bianchi’s immersive sculptural installations reinterpret the concepts of sculpture and of the torso, taking seriously the sensitivity and distress of the human body as subjected to manifold pressures, and expanding and updating its forms of expression.
Exhibition Tour Diego Bianchi Exhibition Tour
Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda
Video
A metabolic force governs the growth of Celina Eceiza’s work, which involves textile collages, sculptures, paintings and drawings — both tiny and colossal in scale — as laborious as they are elementary. The artist combines handcrafted textile techniques and processes such as patchwork, found object collages and, more recently, chalk pastels, which give her images a new sense of fluidity.
Ausstellungsrundgang Celina Eceiza Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake
Slide show
For HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark the artist has developed her first own performative presentation, with a setting for her puppets with three scenes set in an imaginary spaceship, an exhibition, and the spaces that the scenes depict: the Schlouflaboar, the Houloudecks, and the Space Grotto Disco. The piece is a combination of physical theater and puppetry, performed by the artist together with her sister Katharina Arzberger and accompanied by musical interludes arranged by Manuel Obriejtan.
Slide Show Annemarie Arzberger Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Slide show
Diego Bianchi (*1969 Buenos Aires, lives in Buenos Aires) is considered one of Argentina’s leading artists and has, in particular, updated the concept of sculpture. For his installative and performative exhibition Errores Irreales at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Bianchi has assembled a selection of his sculptures that play with the concept of the body.
Slide show Diego Bianchi Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Performance
Slide show
Errores Irreales is only truly activated by the performance staged by Diego Bianchi himself in order to complete his theatrical installation, which takes physicality and its limits to a new level.
Diego Bianchi, Performance Celina Eceiza
Ofrenda
Slide show
Ofrenda [Offering] presents a way of inhabiting a space as if the architecture were a body, breathing erratically, changing states as you pass from one room to the next. The rigidity of the building collapses as the walls are draped in thousands of metres of fabric joined together through the collective and timeless action of sewing, until they form a single smooth surface, sensitive to the slightest change.
Slide show Celina Eceiza Abaseh Mirvali
Artistic Director, viennacontemporary
Video
The conversation between Abaseh Mirvali, director of viennacontemporary, and Sandro Droschl spans Diego Bianchi’s current exhibition and Celina Eceiza’s work in the context of Argentine art history to Mirvali’s many years of expertise and her international career. At the same time, her central role in the dynamic and innovative viennacontemporary 2025 was highlighted.
Abaseh Mirvali Talk Morning Séance
alias Simone Borghi
Video
Italian composer and sound artist Simone Borghi, alias Morning Séance, expands Celina Eceiza’s “soft museum” in her exhibition Ofrenda at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark with his atmospheric, constantly changing music, using his musical performance to enable visitors to experience physicality, space, and perception in new ways.
Morning Séance alias Simone Borghi