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Brad Kahlhamer    (American, 1956)

 Brad Kahlhamer - Baby Eagle USA (Paintings) h: 64 x w: 84 in / h: 162.6 x w: 213.4 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
Baby Eagle USA 2002
 
 Brad Kahlhamer - Diné (Paintings) h: 40 x w: 31 in / h: 101.6 x w: 78.7 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
Diné 2008
 
 Brad Kahlhamer - East of Mesa East, A 55 Plus Community (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 44.5 x w: 92 in / h: 113 x w: 233.7 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
East of Mesa East, A 55 Plus Community 2002
 
 Brad Kahlhamer - J-9 (Paintings) h: 22 x w: 30 in / h: 55.9 x w: 76.2 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
J-9 2008
 
 Brad Kahlhamer - Klondike (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 27.8 x w: 39.4 in / h: 70.6 x w: 100.1 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
Klondike 2007
 
 Brad Kahlhamer - Lupton (Paintings) h: 40 x w: 31 in / h: 101.6 x w: 78.7 cm
Brad Kahlhamer
Lupton 2008
 
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Biography
1956 Born in Tucson, Arizona.
1967 Moves with family to Mayville, Wisconsin.
1976 - 1982 Attends University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac and Oshkosh; receives B.F.A. 1982. Works as a road musician in the midwest.
1982 Moves to New York, New York.
1983 - 1993 Works as an art director for The Topps Company.
1993 - 1994 Founds and directs Hess Modern, an alternative space in Chelsea.
1995 Receives The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation studio grant
2001 Receives The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in painting
2002 Commissioned by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian to write score for the silent fi lm Red Skins, 1929 (Paramount, 81 minutes); National Braid (Kahlhamer and violinist Laura Ortman) performs score at Native Cinema Showcase, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2002; Febio Fest, Prague, 2003; Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2003; and 22nd Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Sacile, Italy, 2003.
2004 Participates in the invited-artist program at The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York.

Exhibitions
2006 NEW, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium
2006 I’m Sorry, Pilar Para & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2006 Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Girls & Skulls, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
2006 Brad Kahlhamer & Aaron Spangler, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2005 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, Sep 29 – Oct 29 (solo)
2004 “Let’s walk west”, Scottsdale Contemporary Museum of Art, Phoenix AZ, September 30, 2004 – January 23, 2005 (solo)
2004 “Skull Project,” Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, 27 May - 31 July (solo)
2004 Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, 22 January - 28 February
2004 Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race and Memory, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, 12 February - 6 June. Catalog, texts by Thomas Haukaas and Rock Hushka
2004 Monument to Now, Deste Foundation: Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 22 June - 31 December. Catalog, texts by Deste Foundation: Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 22 June - 31 December. Catalog, texts by Now Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni and Nancy Spector
2003 Supernova, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, December 13, 2003 – May 23, 2004
2003 Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 18 January - 21 March. Catalog, texts by Vicky A. Clark, Barbara J. Bloemink, Ana Merino, Rick Gribenas and George D. Wallace. Traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton; University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California; Art House, Austin, Texas
2003 “Apache Junction USA,” Modern Art Inc., London, 17 January – 23 February (solo)
2003 Almost American, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9 August - 25 October (solo)
2003 “Almost American,” Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, 9 November - 21 December (solo)
2002 Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 17 November - 19 January
2002 Contemporary Art Project, Seattle Art Museum, 20 December – 6 April 2003 (cat.)
2002 Five Years of the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2002, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 23 October - 30 November
2002 New Visions of the West, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, 17 February - 28 April. Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, 17 February - 28 April. West
2002 RETROSPECTACLE: 25 Years of Collecting Modern & Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, 16 November - 3 August 2003. Denver Art Museum, 16 November - 3 August 2003
2001 Best of the season: Selected Works from the 2000-2001 Manhattan Exhibition Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Catalog, text by Richard Klein
2001 Ghost World, Cais Gallery, Seoul, 9 October - 3 November. Catalog, text by Michael Cohen
2001 Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, 12 March - 22 April. Traveled to Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, 12 March - 22 April. Traveled to Art University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal. Catalog, text by Dan Mills
2001 Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Art, New York, 11 May - 16 June
2001 Waterworks: U.S. Akvarell 2001, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden, 20 May – 2 September. Catalog, texts by Kim Levin and Berndt Arell
2001 Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, 22 November - 20 December (solo)
2001 “Almost American,” Deitch Projects, New York, 5 May - 30 June (solo)
2000 Brad Kahlhamer: Almost American, Madison Art Center (now Madison Museum of Contemporary Art), Wisconsin (solo)
2000 Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, 7 June - 31 July (solo)
1999 Friendly Frontier, Deitch Projects, New York, 14 October - 6 November. Catalog, texts by Jeffrey Deitch and Peter Fleissig; Deitch Projects, New York, 14 October - 6 November. Catalog, texts by Jeffrey Deitch and Peter Fleissig; Frontier interview by Margaret Archuleta (solo)
1998 KTNN, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, 25 April - 6 June (solo)
1996 Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, 12 October - 16 November (solo)
1994 Project Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York, 17 November - 22 December. Brochure, text by Melinda Gellman, Ph.D. (solo)

Literature
Olofsson, Anders. “Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm: Brad Kahlhamer” (October 2005)
Tiselius, Henric. “Att teckna är so matt skapa musik” Stockholm City (September 30, 2005)
Nilsson, Åse-Marie. “Konstnär söker sin stam” Svenska Dagbladet (September 27, 2005)
Archuleta, Margaret, Henry E. Bovay, and Gregory Sholette, with artists’ statements. Red River Crossings: Contemporary Native American Artists Respond to Peter Rindisbacher (1806-1834). New York: Swiss Institute, 1996.
Archuleta, Margaret, Jeffrey Deitch, and Peter Fleissig. Brad Kahlhamer: Friendly Frontier. New York: Deitch Projects, 1999.
Benezra, Neal, Dan Cameron, Madeleine Grynstejn, Kent Logan, Jessica Morgan, Ralph Rugoff, Amada Cruz and Katy Siegel.
Supernova: Art of the Nineties from the Logan Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003.
Bloemink, Barbara, Vicky A. Clark, Rick Gribenas, Ana Merino and George D. Wallace. Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation. Pittsburgh: Regina Gouger Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003.
Cameron, Dan, Jeffrey Deitch, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni and Nancy Spector. Monument to Now. Athens, Greece: Deste Foundation: Center for Contemporary Art, 2004.
Cohen, Michael. Ghost World. Seoul: Cais Gallery, 2001.
Collischan, Judy. Endpapers: drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2000.
Corrin, Lisa and Tara Reddy Young. Seattle Art Museum Collection: Contemporary Art Project. Seattle Art Museum Collection: Contemporary Art Project. Young Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2002.
Diehl, Matt, Matt Freedman, Martha McPhee, and Darcey Steinke. KTTN (CD-ROM with brochure). New York: Full Pelt (CD-ROM with brochure). New York: Full Pelt Productions and Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, 1998.
Garrels, Gary, et. al. The Logan Collection: Portrait of Our Times. Vail, Colorado: The Logan Collection, 2002.
Gellman, Melinda. Brad Kahlhamer. New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1994.
Haukaas, Thomas and Rock Hushka. Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race and Memory. Tacoma, Washington: Tacoma Art Museum with University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2004.
Hoptman, Laura and Sara Krajewski. Brad Kahlhamer: Almost American. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Art Center and Aspen Art Museum, 2000.
Iossel, Mikhail. Square Bubbles. Schenectady, New York: Mandeville Gallery, Union College, 1996.
Leigh, Christian. Sculpture: The Day After Today. New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1992.
Levin, Kim and Berndt Arell. Waterworks: U.S. Akvarell 2001. Skärhamn, Sweden: Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, 2001.
Mills, Dan. Issues of Identity in Recent American Art. Potsdam, New York: Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, 2001.
Rosenberg, Barry A. “The World As We Find It,” in Simply Made in America. Ridgefi eld, Connecticut: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 1992.
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