Garrett Bradley
Born in 1986 in New York, NY
Lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana
EDUCATION
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Madison, ME
2012 MFA UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 BA Smith College, Northampton, MA
FEATURE FILMS
2020 Time
2014 Below Dreams
SHORT FILMS
2019 America
2018 Alone
The Earth Is Humming
2017 Like
2014 Below Dreams
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Projects 111: Garrett Bradley, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Forthcoming)
2019 Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Bodies of Knowledge, curated by Katie Pfohl, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Grief and Grievance: Art And Mourning In America, Conceived by curator Okwui Enwezor with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon and Mark Nash, The New Museum, New York, NY
2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Bodies of Knowledge, curated by Katie Pfohl, New Orleans Museum of Art, NOMA, New Orleans, LA
2007 Video Revolutionaries, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC SCREENINGS
2020 Sundance Film Festival, US Feature Competition, “Time,” Park City, UT
2019 Shirin Neshat + Garrett Bradley, Array @ The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
“Garrett Bradley’s America: A Journey Through Race and Time,” BAM Rose Cinemas, New York, NY
New Directors / New Films, New York, NY
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT Hot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2018 POP UP Magazine, Washington, DC
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, TX
AFI Docs, Washington, DC
Sarasota Film Festival, FLHot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2017 Queen Sugar, Episode 212, (OWN Network)
Rooftop Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Norwegian Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway
Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA
Sheffield International Film Festival, Sheffield, UK
Hot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
New York Times Op-Docs, New York, NY
2016 DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
Field of Vision, The Intercept
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, TX
2015 US Embassy, Tel Aviv
International Film Festival Rotterdam
“3/1 America: A Film By Garrett Bradley,” Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Prospect 3, New Orleans, LA
CPH:DOX I CPH:MARKET, Copenhagen, Denmark
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada
New Orleans Film Festival, LA
TriBeCa Film Festival, New York, NY
2013 Rooftop Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Brooklyn International Bridge Film Festival, NY
SELECTED PRESS
2020 Interview with Amy Taubin, Film Comment. January 31.
Dargis, Manohla. “Critic’s Notebook.” The New York Times. January 31.
Linden, Sheri. “Time.” The Hollywood Reporter. February 25.
2019 Jerkins, Morgan.“Asking For A Deeper Look: The poetic verite of filmmaker Garrett Bradley.” URSULA Magazine (Hauser+Wirth): Issue 3. June 17.
“The Fae Richards Photo Archive: A Panel with Garrett Bradley, Huey Copeland, Lanka Tattersall and Rebecca Matalon.” The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, Feb 17.
Hans, Simran. The Guardian. Feb 3.
Girish, Devika. Film Comment. January 31.
“Reseeing the Present, Rewriting the Past: A Panel with Tommy Orange, RaMell Ross, Sky Hopinka, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Crystal Echo Hawk and Garrett Bradley,” Sundance Film Festival, January 21.
2017 “The Takeaway.” NPR. February 15.
Craven, Julia. The Huffington Post. February 14.
Donnely, Matt. The Wrap. January 19.
2016 Gund, Catherine. “Vision & Justice: 3 Reflections on Cinema and Archives.” Aperture. July 15.
Hynes, Eric. The Intercept. March 29.
2015 Olson, Mark. LA Times. August 22.
Thompson, Matthew Brennan. “Thompson on Hollywood.” Indiewire. April 22.
Hillis, Aaron. Village Voice. April 10.
Curtis, John. Bold As Love. April 10.
Linden, Sheri. LA Times. April 9.
Whitney Biennial Catalogue. Whitney Museum of Art. February.
Harris, Brandon. Filmmaker Magazine. January 27.
Interview with Franklin Sirmans. Art Los Angeles Reader. January 12. 2014 Interview with Suzanne McClelland.
Lvoff, Sophie. BOMB Magazine. October 17.
Brennan, Matt. The Gambit. October 12 Issue.
Freidman, Brian. NPR-RADIO/WWNO. June 9.
Diab, Emma. GALO Magazine. May 23.
Cusumano, Cara. iTunes Podcast. May 19.
Alvin, Rebecca M. The Cape Cod Film Society. May 7.
Dam, Freja. Politiken. May 5.
James, Nick. Sight & Sound Magazine. April 29.
Rodriguez, Briana. Backstage Magazine. April 27.
Barna, Ben. The New York Times/Times Magazine. April 24.
Macaulay, Scott. Filmmaker Magazine. April 22.
Abrams, Bryan. The Credits. April 17.
Silverstein, Melissa. IndieWire. April 17.
Murphy, Mekado. The New York Times. April 17.
Ebiri, Bilge. New York Magazine/Vulture. April 15.
Effinger, Shannon. Ebony Magazine. April 14.
Strahan, Tracie. WNBC-TV/Positively Black. April 13.
Eidelstein, Eric. IndieWire. April 7.
AWARDS
2020 Best Director, Nonfiction Feature (Sundance Film Festival)
Golden Eye, Documentary Feature (Zurich Film Festival)
Center for Documentary Studies @ Duke University (Full Frame Film Festival)
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award (Full Frame Film Festival)
2019 IDA (international Documentary Association) Nomination
Prix de Rome
Creative Capital Grantee
2018 Field of Vision Fellowship
Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellowship
Warhol Foundation Grantee
2017 Oscar Contender (Shortlist), ALONE
Sundance Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction
2016 Ford Foundation Grantee
2014 Art Matters Foundation Grantee
Artadia New Orleans Prospect 3 Artist Award
2001 Jury Award: Brooklyn International Bridge Film Festival (Juried by Stanley Crouch)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The New Orleans Museum of Art, LA