SLATER BRADLEY was born in 1975, San Francisco, USA and he graduated (1998) at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. In 2004 he participated at Whitney Biennial, New York.
He has been the subject of solo show at: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum, USA; Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands; Contemporary Arts Museum in St. Louis, USA; Berkeley Art Museum in California, USA; and Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, USA. He participated in several group shows, from which we can call attention to: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Chicago MCA, USA; Seattle Art Museum, USA; Jeu de Paume and the Palais de Tokyo, both in Paris, France.
His work is present at several public collections, such as: David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England; Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; The Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA; Progressive Collection, Cleveland, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; UBS Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
Slater lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
EDUCATION1998 Licenciatura na University of California, Los Angeles, E.U.A. | BA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
1993 San Francisco University High School, California, USA
AWARDS AND GRANTS2017
Global Fine Art award, Best Public Art Exhibition, Sundoor at World’s End, La Maddalena, Venice, Italy (Nominee)
2015Artist-In-Residence, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain;
2008
Lucelia Artist Award, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA (Nominee)
2006NASA Art Program, Washington D.C., in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA;
2005The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Video;
1998UCLA Art Council Grant;
1996UCLA Lillian Levenson Scholarship;
UCLA President's Undergraduate Fellowship;
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)2019
Under The Subeams, there-there, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018
Making Time, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
Ketu, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2017Sundoor at World's End, La Maddalena, Venice, Italy
2016The Secret Key, Zuecca Projet Space, Venice, Italy
Spazio Ridotto, Venice, Italy
2013A Point Beyond the Tree, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
She was my la jetée, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
My Conclusion / My Necessity, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, USA
Slater Bradley and Ed Lachman: Dead Ringer, 21c Museum, Bentonville, USA
2012Slater Bradley: Nudes, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Melancholia, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Don't Let Me Disappear, Team Gallery, New York, USA
2011Look up and stay in touch, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA, (cat.)
Never Bet Against Me, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Slater Bradley and Ed Lachman: Shadow, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2010-11Shadow, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2010CLEAN SLATE, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009if we were immortal, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Nothing Changes How It Used To Be, Frans Hals Museum, De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands
2008Perfect Empathy, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007Hope From A Dark Place, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
The Unreleased Factory, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Tonic-Clonic, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
The Armory Show, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2006The Abandonments, Team Gallery, New York, USA
In a Mixed State, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
2005Uncharted Settlements, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Intermission, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Lifetime Achievement Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
MATRIX 216: The Year of the Doppelganger, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Doppelganger Trilogy, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2004The Doppelganger Trilogy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
STONED & DETHRONED, Team Gallery, New York, USA
2003Nobody Gives a Fuck What You Go Do With Your Life, MW Projects, London, UK
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
2002The Armory Photography Show, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Here are the Young Men, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Universitätsstadt Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Art + Public, Genéve, Switzerland
Keys in the Mailbox, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2001
Video Cube, FIAC, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Statements, Art | 32 | Basel, Team Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Trompe Le Monde, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, Home Town Hero, USA
2000Special Projects Series, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Charlatan, Team Gallery, New York, USA
I was rooting for you, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, USA
1999The Fried Liver Attack, Team Gallery, New York, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2018, Goodroom, München, Germany
The Breeder Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, New York, New York
2017True Faith, Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
MTV: RE:DEFINE, Dallas Contemporary, curated by Neville Wakefield, Dallas, Texas
Liasons du Louvre IV : La Dolce Vita, Venetian Heritage Benefit Auction, Venice, Italy
Indian Art Fair, New Delhi, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
2016Faith and Fathom, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
Open Windows - Reflections on Beuys, Sexauer, Berlin, Germany
Shifting Coordinates - FotoFocus 2016 Biennial, Cincinnati, USA
Berliner Bahnhof, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
15 Minutes: Exposing Dimensions of Fame, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY, USA
Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition About Rock and Rock -
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Dreaming Mirrors I: Dreaming Screens -
Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin, Germany
In Formation -
Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
20152nd Wave Solar Shield, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Poertugal
Good for Nothing (Cracks in the Mirror), GOODROOM, Munich, Germany
Ngorongoro -
Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
...y el tiempo se hizo -
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2014she was my la jetée, Galeria Filomena Soares, LOOP Fair, Barcelona, Spain
mythOmania, Le 106, Rouen, France
Sound and Vision: Loves, Paris Photo, Los Angeles, California, travelled to Fotofocus Biennial, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cinema Remake, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Infinite City, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Saturn Trine Neptune, Sean Kelly Gallery, Armory Show, New York, New York, USA
2013City of Disappearances, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
El Arte del Presente. Colección Helga de Alvear, Centro+Centro Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
Seventh-Inning Stretch, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, USA
Public Display of Affection, Rongwrong Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012In Seach of..., Art Academy Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
Parts & Service, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, USA
Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Poulé!, Fundación / Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Artprojx Cinema: United Tastes of America, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, New York, USA
2011Now, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
I'll Be Your Mirror, Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis, USA
Melodymania, RH Gallery, New York, USA
Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54º Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Alias, Kraków Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Second Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2010Haunted, Guggenheim Museum, Nova Iorque, New York, USA
NEW YORK The Loudest, Gallery Koko, Tokyo, Japan
I Believe in Miracles, Lambert Collection, Avignon, France
Landscapes, Magazzino D'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
This Is My Condition, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Sur leDandysme, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dracula Effect, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Margenes de Silencio, Centro de Atres Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
HOW TO KILL A CELEBRITY, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The secret (still) knows, LAND, Los Angeles, USA
Fourteen Again, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2009Herd Thinner, Charest Weinberg Gallery, Miami, USA
Incarnational Aesthetics, NYCAMS, New York, USA
100 Years (Version #2), P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Geography of The Imagination, Lead Apron, Los Angeles, USA
Videowork from the Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2009-2007
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA; and Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2008Rock My Religion, Domus Artium 02, Salamanca, Spain
Young at Heart (Remix), Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
Accessories to an Artwork, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, England, UK
Auto Stop, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
A Curators Gift: Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez, Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
still: Slater Bradley, Sally Mann, Nigel Poor, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University, Denver, USA
The Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
VOLUME(S), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The object is in the mirror part II, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2007The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Stop, Look and Listen, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
Sweet Bird of Youth, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Noise, TH Inside, Milan, Italy
2006Open House, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Young at Heart, Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal
Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
Belief and Doubt, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
People, Madre Modern Art Museum, Naples, Italy
Boisterous, Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Figures of the Player, the Paradox of the Actor, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Human Game, Winners and Losers, Pitti Foundation, Florence, Italy
Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art, University of Alabama Visual Arts, Birmingham, USA
Setting the Scene, Discoteca di Stato Museo dell'Audiovisivo Auditorium, Rome, Italy
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
I Love My Scene: Scene 2, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2005The Gravity in Art, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Le Studio: Slater Bradley, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Superstars-The Principle of Renown, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
DA2: Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
3 or 4 Stories, Estudio Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Star Star, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Video II: Allegorie, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
Downstrokes and Feedback, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, USA
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Threshold, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
video-musica-video, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
La Collection D' Enea Rich, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2004Premieres, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
I Feel Mysterious Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, USA
Me, Myself and I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
A Very Liquid Heaven, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, USA
Will Boys Be Boys?: Questioning Masculinity in Contemporary Art, The Salina Art Center, Salina, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, USA; The Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
Music/Video, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, USA;
Motion Stills, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, USA
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Stalemate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Unlightment, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
The Yugoslav Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
The Rose Garden Without Thorns, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Portraits, Esso Gallery, New York, USA
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2003When Darkness Falls, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations (1773). Team Gallery, New York, USA
Inaugural Show, New Space, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
from the flat files, Ramp Gallery, Wakaito Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
What am I doing Here?, ESSO Gallery, New York, USA
Then The World Would Be Upside Down, Tina Kim Projects, New York, USA
Country Mouse, City Mouse, Space 101, Brooklyn, USA;
I See a Darkness, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
The Fourth Sex: The Extreme People of Adolescence, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
Someone to Watch Over Me, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002The Passing, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Nuit Blanche: plus qu'une image, Aux Anciennes Pompes Funebres de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Music/Video, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Les Enfants du Paradis, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Art Unlimited, Art | 33 | Basel, Team Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Slater Bradley, Mark Leckey, John Williams, Low, Los Angeles, USA
International Contemporary and Emerging Art, Lawson_Menzies Flynn, Sydney, Australia
The Standard Projection #3,The Standard, Los Angeles, USA
Photographier, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France;
burst, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Copy, Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, USA
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low, Los Angeles, USA
Dark Spring, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2001Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Art and Wellbeing - The Aesthetics of Recreation, Kunsthaus Meran-Merano Arte, Merano, Itay
Metropolis Now, Borusan Centre for Culture and Arts, | Istanbul, Turkey; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain;
Inaugural Exhibition, Le Studio at Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines!, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
In a Lonely Place, National Museum of Film, Television and Photography, West Bradford, UK
Dear Dead Person, Momenta, Brooklyn, USA
2000Friction Fiction, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles, USA
1:1, Refusalon, San Francisco, USA
The World is Not Enough, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC, USA
1999SoCal Car Culture, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, USA
PO + KU ART REVOLUTION, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
long cold winter in an endlessnameless, Studio 870, Los Angeles, USA
1998Blind Date, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
A sound goodbye demand, Studio 870, Los Angeles, USA
Text and Numbers, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1997Ca 90001-185, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
COLLECTIONSBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Martin C. Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
U.B.S. Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky