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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. 

“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.”

CV
INSTAGRAM

ART:
2020-PRESENT
2010-2020



 Private Garden/Vacant Corner
 
2018 - ONGOING
Group Exhibition:
The Archive as Liberation
Light Work
2025 


The Archive as Liberation is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner (Light Work artist–in-residence, 2018, and Light Work exhibiting artist, 2021). Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book’s editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker. 
Group Exhibition:
The Archive as Liberation
Silver Eye Center for Photography
2025 


Archives shape our understanding of the past and influence how we imagine the future. Aware of this power, the artists featured in this exhibition engage with archives to craft powerful counter-narratives. Their authored stories reveal the transformative potential of critique and reinterpretation. Their art creates space for undetermined futures while honoring ancestral lineages, kinship, and resilience.

The Archive as Liberation exhibition is co-curated with Aaron R. Turner. Turner is the author and organizer of The Archive as Liberation book, published by Light Work (Syracuse University).
Curatorial Practice 
2024 

"AN AMERICA(N) SLIDESHOW," "WICKED PROBLEMS," and THE LIE imagine a world where art and social awareness are kin. A world where cultural producers use narrative space and various forms of media to transport the private into and through the public sphere.


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.