photo credit: Jon Tomlinson
Bradley Wester lives in Brooklyn, NY, and as of 2007 also in Sarasota, FL, where he has accepted a Three Year Visiting Artist Position at Ringling College of Art and Design teaching Advanced Painting and Drawing. He currently maintains his studio in Sarasota. Teaching
Education
Solo Exhibitions Installations
Selected Group
Exhibitions Awards Collections Bibliography
Theatrical Design
Born
New Orleans, LA
Visiting Artist 2007-2010, Ringling College of Art and Design; Sarasota, FL
MFA Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts; New Brunswick, NJ
BFA Louisiana State University; Lafayette, LA
2007 Paper or Plastic: 7 Years
Mack B Gallery; Sarasota, FL
2007 Everyday Inside Out SPACE Gallery; Portland, ME
2004 Bradley
Wester: When In Rome Bruno
Marina Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
2003 Bradley
Wester: HELLO my name is lyonswiergallery;
New York, NY
2000 Bradley
Wester New Gallery; Houston, TX
1997 Bradley Wester, Recent Work New Jersey State Museum; Trenton,
NJ
1993 Paintings and Works on Paper: 1991-1993 Michael Walls Gallery;
New York, NY
1990 Seven Works Michael Walls Gallery; New York, NY
1985 New Paintings and Drawing on Paper Aaron Hastings Gallery; New
Orleans, LA
1993 Still Sitting Artists Space; New York, NY
2007 Squared (curated by David Gibson of the Earnest Rubenstein Gallery)
The Educational Alliance New York, NY
2007 Mapping the Terrain (catalogue)
Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University; Hammond, LA
2006 Undergrowth:
Bates, Cauwenbergh, Lee, Wester, Gallery Sakiko, New York, NY
The New Collage, Pavel
Zoubok Gallery; New York, NY
2004 Meat Market, lyonswiergallery,
New York, NY
Controlled Chaos,lyonswiergallery,
New York, NY
-scope fairs (lyonswiergallery) New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL
-scope fair (lyonswiergallery), Hotel Gansevoort, New York, NY
2003 Summer Group Show Bruno
Marina Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
Postcards From The Edge (Visual AIDS Benefit), Galerie
Lelong, New York, NY
-scope, Los Angeles (lyonswiergallery), The Standard, New York, NY
-scope, New York (lyonswiergallery), dylan hotel, New York, NY
2002 The Affordable Art Fair (lyonswiergallery), Pier 92, New York,
NY
Postcards From The Edge (Visual AIDS Benefit) Sperone Westwater, New
York, NY
25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition The Drawing Center, New York,
NY
anXious D.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Selections: New American Paintings #38 Open Studios Press Gallery,
Boston, MA
2001 Pierogi 2000 Flat File (ongoing) Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Paper Catherine Moore Fine Art, NY
2000 Yard Sale/Downtown Arts Festival ’00
NYC Lab School-Chelsea, NY;
Out Side In Catherine Moore Fine Art, NY
1999 Size Matters Mike Wiess,
curator Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn NY;
The Passion/Passions of Art Richard Anderson Gallery, NY;
Queer Vision Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ;
Calm and Commotion Mississippi Museum of Art; Jackson, MS
1998 Little Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art; New York, NY
1997 Thin Skin: Weiss, Suter, Wester Newark Museum; Newark,
NJ;
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection Mississippi Museum of Art; Jackson, MS;
Intimate Universe (re-visited) Robert Steele Gallery; New York, NY;
1996 Bradley Wester & Jaqueline Humphries Galerie Simonne Stern; New
Orleans, LA;
NJ State Council Fellowship Exhibition The Noyes Museum; Oceanville, NJ
1995 The Small Painting O’Hara Gallery; New York, NY;
A Romantic Impulse: 17 American Artists O’Hara Gallery; New York,
NY;
New York Abstract Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1994 Fifty Nifty Pictures + Objects AHI Gallery; New York, NY
1993 Regarding Beauty Halsey Gallery; Charleston, SC;
Intimate Universe Nina Fruedenheim Gallery; Buffalo, NY;
New Jersey Arts Annual The Newark Museum; Newark, NJ
1992 Intimate Universe Michael Walls Gallery; New York, NY;
Freedom of Expression ’92 Metro Pictures Gallery; New York, NY
1991 Entr’acte Michael Walls Gallery; New York, NY
1990 The Environs of Elegance Michael Walls Gallery; New York, NY;
Intimate Inventions/Gestural Abstractions Madison Art Center; Madison,
WI;
In timate Inventions/Gestural Abstractions Wriston Art Center; Appleton,
WI
1989 The Collective Spirit Artists Alliance Gallery; Lafayette, LA;
Five Painters Michael Walls Gallery; New York, NY;
Selections 43 The Drawing Center; New York, NY
2008 Fulbright Senior Specialist in Art - Kyoto University of Art and Design Kyoto, Japan
2007 The MacDowell Artist Colony Painting Fellowship Peterborough, NH
2006 New American Painters, NE edition #62 - Juror: Bill Arning, Curator at the MIT List Center for Visual Arts
2005 Chashama (AREA) Studio Residency, 40 Worth Street New York, NY
2004 Visual Art Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Sweet
Briar, VA
2003-2004 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
American Academy of Rome, Visiting Artist Rome, Italy
2003 Visual Art Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Sweet
Briar, VA
2002 New American Painters, NE edition #38
Juror: Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art
2001 The MacDowell Artist Colony Painting Fellowship Peterborough,
NH
1994 Fellowship Award for Painting New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
1992 Change Inc. New York, NY (Established by Robert Rauschenberg)
1991 Edward F. Albee Foundation, Visual Arts Fellowship Montauk, NY
1985 Fellowship Award for Visual Arts New Jersey State Council on the
Arts
Museum: Mississippi State Museum Jackson, MS
Corporate: The Maslow Collection Wilkes-Barre, PA
The Prudential Insurance Company Newark, NJ
Selected Private: Ross Bleckner New York, NY;
Edward Albee New York, NY;
Estelle Dodge Bay Harbor Islands, FL;
Vera List New York, NY;
Richard & Margaret Matthews-Berenson New York, NY
2005 "For Artists, Cheap Studios...," Lisa Chamberlain; The New York Times, 8 May
2004 "Summer Art Guide," Alan Lockwood; New York Press, 25 May
2004 "When In Rome, Bruno Marina Gallery," Benjamin La Rocco; The Brooklyn Rail (NY), June
2000 "Out Side In @ Catherine Moore," Stefano Pasquini; NY Arts
Magazine, July/August
1999 "Brooklyn Spice," Paul Laster; artnet.com, Reviews, Fall
1998 "Artist Presses Emotion into Service," Philadelphia Inquirer
(PA), 10 August
1997 "Thin Skin," Robert M. Murdock; Review Magazine (New York, NY),
July/August
"Beauty in the Bottom of a Barrel," Princeton Packet-Time Off, 11-20
July
1996 "Beyond the Modern and Back Again," D. Eric Bookhart; New Orleans
Gambit, May
1995 "Some New York Hedonists" by Terrrington Calas; New Orleans
Art Review, May/June
"Bradley Wester" by Miyako Yoshinaga; Nikkei
Art (Tokyo, Japan), August
1994 "Theatre Review: Junk Bonds," Alexis Greene; Theatre Week,
12 December
" ‘Word of Mouth’ prompts plenty of smiles," by Michael
Lasser; The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY), 23 October
1993 "Art of Social Awareness," by Eileen Watkins; The Star Ledger
(Newark, NJ), 17 March 1990 "Inventions/Abstractions Deserves a Browse,"
Bill Moore; Wisconsin State Journal, 26 May
Bradley Wester
has designed Theatre works for Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in Los
Angeles, and New Orleans, by producers such as Mike Nichols and Elaine May,
Fox Television, The Promenade Theatre-NY, LaMama-NY, Music Theatre Group-NY,
Here Theatre-NY, and The Court Theatre-LA. Wester has designed plays of noted
playwrights such as Eve Ensler, David Greenspan, Lucy Wang, and James Lecesne.
In the 80’s Wester worked with world renown experimental theatre artist
Robert Wilson, as a performer and personal assistant. Wester also wrote, designed,
and performed his own performance/theatre work, which was presented in venues
such as The Kitchen Center-NY, Danspace St. Marks Church-NY, PS1-Queens, New
Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Sarah Lawrence College, and the New Jersey
State Museum.