Bio
Education
1994 Hunter College, NYC - Master of Fine Arts
1987 Wheaton College, IL - Bachelor of Arts
1981 Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Awards/Honors
2002 Williams College, Williamstown, MA - visiting artist
2002 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency
2001 Yaddo, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY - residency
2001 Southern Indiana University, Evansville, IN. - visiting artist
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
1994 SIVA Fellow, Regents College, UBC, Vancouver, BC
1993 William Graff Travel Grant, Hunter College, NYC
1987 Society of Arts and Letters, Chicago, IL
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Regarding What's Past, Chicago, IL
2003 Painting Past Photographs, The Distillery, S. Boston MA
2002 Trinity College Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Clare Weiss, Paintings, NYC
2001 WGBH Gallery, Salvages, Boston, MA
2000 LCA Gallery, Surface, Lexington, MA
1999 Kougeas Gallery, Immersion of Subject, E. Boston, MA
1998 Gordon College, Working the Rescue, Wenham, MA
1994 Wheaton College, Making Evidence, Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton, IL
1987 Judson College Gallery, Elgin, IL
1985 Wheaton College, Fascist Architecture, Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 The Mills Gallery, BCA, The Drawing Show, Boston, MA
2004 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA
2003 Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, New Work, Chicago, IL
2003 Pepper Gallery, Gallery Artists, Boston, MA
2004 Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 RISD Alumni Exhibition, Boston, MA
2001 Pepper Gallery, New Works, Boston, MA
2000 Art Works at Dover Street, Land, Sea & Sky, New Bedford, MA
2000 Kougeas Gallery, Art of Our Time, E. Boston, MA
1999 Gwenda Jay / Addington Gallery, Sightings, Chicago, IL
1997 Islip Art Museum, Photoesque, Oakdale, NY
1996 Leubsdorf Gallery, NYC
1994 SIVA Exhibition, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC
1994 Art & Artists, Mary Graves Gallery, New London, NH
Selected Reviews and Articles
Lippincott, Robin - Painting Past Photographs, A portfolio by Bradford Johnson - The Paris Revie, Spring 2004
Millis, Christopher - Smash Hits ,BCA 18th Annual Drawing Show - The Boston Phoenix February 13, 2004
Camper, Fred - Messages in the Medium - The Chicago Reader, August 9, 2002, 1 reproduction
Weinstein, Michael. Vanishing Point, the Elusive Image - New City, July 27, 2002
McGarrah, James, editor. Artist’s Notes - Southern Indiana Review, Spring 2002, 6 repros. cover
Lynds, John. Bradford’s View; Eastie Based Artist Gains Stature - East Boston Sun Transcript, 2001, 3 repros.
Bax Martin, editor East Boston Drawings Ambit, 2000 London UK, 8 drawings
Sheesley, Joel. Working the Rescue: The Paintings of Bradford Johnson Image Magazine, 2000 5 color repros.
Harrison, Helen. Turning Photographs Into the Metaphorical: Photoesque The New York Times, November 9, 1997