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Andre Bradley graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Image Text Ithaca and the Rhode Island School of Design's M.F.A. programs.

While at the Rhode Island School of Design, he received the T.C. Colley Award for photographic excellence. While at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Bradley was named a George Ciscle Scholar in curatorial practice. Bradley's first photo-book, Dark Archives, I-41, was shortlisted for the Photo-Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photo Book Award. Bradley’s work has been collected by public and private art institutions and libraries including the RISD Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Scripps College’s Ella Strong Denison Library Rare Book Room

“As an artist, I explore memory, identity, and place. I use image-text and curation to imagine a world where art and social awareness are kin. A world where creators use media to merge private and public spheres. My recent projects pose questions about authorship, spectatorship, and traditional forms of distribution. The histories, codes, and values of Black individuals, the art world, and academia frame my work. In it, I address societal issues. I mine my autobiography and family archives. I sample popular music and literature. My work speaks through and comments on contemporary art discourse, academia, and publishing. My practice is not an intellectual exercise. It is a personal, self-preserving engagement with the world.”

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ART:
2020-PRESENT
2010-2020



 Private Garden/Vacant Corner
 
2018 - ONGOING


PrivateGarden/Vacant Corner is a diptych that explores Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the black community. Hinging a photo book and video as the dyad products of a decade-long artistic practice in photography, writing, curatorial practice, and image text. In a forthcoming photobook fabricated to look and feel like a planter box, Bradley sets a trap for attention. Through poetics of social engagement, Bradley shares specific events, and at the same time creates metaphors and abstract, notions about traumatic experiences. He uses multiple "personas" -- he, I, etc. to tell a pathographic story.

In a joint video, these literary personas share one voice, foregrounding disassociation as a narrative device. Bradley allows viewers to experience disassociation through him. One voice narrates a video collage of archival photographs from the Library of Congress, portraits of black boys, landscape photographs, and a recent video of Philadelphia, cut with talking head footage of the artist reading from his poem Private Garden/Vacant Corner which gets its name from a landscape design solution proposed for vacant lots in disinvested areas of Philadelphia in the early 2000’s. 
Group Exhibition:
The Performative Self-Portrait
 RISD Museum of Art 
2023 


This exhibition explores the work of photographers who turn the camera back upon themselves. From capturing themselves in shadows and reflections to trying on alternative or speculative identities, The Performative Self-Portrait explores the body as material and medium and photography as a vehicle to consider ways artists use self-portraiture to enact the self, question history, and articulate identity.

Made between 1930 and the present, works in the exhibition range from new acquisitions to older works on view for the first time.

Curated by Conor Moynihan, Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, and Matthew Kluk, Brown PhD 2025, History of Art and Architecture. 
What If Photography is Forgiveness?

“I Never Taught @ Brown!” (After Fred Moten)

I’m Here to Talk About Feelings

Gel ink, oil-based paint pen, alcohol-based marker, pencil on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper
2023