Katherine Bradford 

South Beach, 2025

“I was really impressed when I visited the new Drop-In Center at the Ali Forney Center. There was so much space, and it seemed so welcoming. It seems to me that anyone who went there could find a community very easily.” —Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford (b. 1942) is a painter with studios in Brooklyn and Maine. In 2025, her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Kaufmann Repetto in Milan. Bradford will open a solo exhibition at CANADA in New York on October 23, 2025. In 2022, she had a midcareer retrospective at the Portland Museum of Art which traveled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Bradford has had solo shows at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany, the Harvard Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Kunsthalle Steiermark, Graz, Austria. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Prospect 4 New Orleans Triennial, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, New York, and the FLAG Art Foundation, New York. Bradford has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She served as senior critic in the Yale MFA Program and was a resident faculty member at Skowhegan. The artist was commissioned to make several mosaic murals for New York City MTA’s First Avenue L Subway Station. Bradford’s work is in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Baltimore Museum, the Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Rubell Family Collection.