Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford (born 1942), née Houston, is an American player based in New York, known for paintings of swimmers, superheroes and ships that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has standard her widest nod in her seventies. Critic John Yau characterizes her play a role as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.

Bradford has exhibited internationally and at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and University of the Arts (Philadelphia), among supplementary venues. She has time-honored awards from the John Simon Guggenheim, Joan Mitchell and Pollock-Krasner foundations and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her proceed belongs to public art collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, and Portland Museum of Art.

Bradford lives subsequent to her spouse Jane O'Wyatt, in New York City, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Brunswick, Maine.