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EVENTS
BRAD KAHLHAMER: ALEX KATZ CHAIR IN PAINTING ARTIST TALK
The Cooper Union, NYC
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
6:30–8 PM
ABOUT
Brad Kahlhamer (b. 1956) is an artist working in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, performance, and music to explore what he refers to as the "third place"—a meeting point of two opposing personal histories. Reimagining a subjective vocabulary through a neo-expressionist lens, his work references hallmarks of twentieth-century abstract painting, such as German Expressionism, while incorporating highly personal iconography.
Drawing on his tripartite identity, Kahlhamer’s work navigates his Native American heritage, adoptive German-American family, and adult life in New York City’s Lower East Side. His initial work as an illustrator at Topps Comics, early exposure to Native American ledger drawings (which he considers to be America’s first graphic novels), and the artistic milieu of downtown Manhattan shape the language of his paintings and drawings. While referencing Native American history and culture, his work explores his own displaced identity and straddles notions of authenticity and representation within the discourse of Native American art.
Kahlhamer’s work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota; and at LOOM Indigenous Art Gallery, Gallup, New Mexico. Kahlhamer’s solo exhibition Bowery Nation opened at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut in 2012, and was presented at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri in 2013. His work was included in PROSPECT.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, and has appeared in group exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museé du Quai Branly, Paris, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2022 two solo exhibitions opened in Arizona, Swap Meet at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and 11:59 to Tucson at the Tucson Museum of Art. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery where he debuted Fort Gotham USA.
Kahlhamer is the recipient of a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (2017), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculpture Grant (2006), Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Rauschenberg Residency (2015), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2020), and in 2022 was a Civitella Ranieri Foundation fellow. He was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (in partnership with the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha) and an artist-in-residence with The Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France (2009).
Kahlhamer holds a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Fond du Lac Campus. Kahlhamer has served on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, as a Visiting Artist and Critic at the University of Minnesota, and as a Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at the San Francisco Art Institute.
RECENT Exhibitions
+ EXPLODING NATIVE INEVITABLE +
Bates College Museum of Art
Curated by Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills
OCTOBER 27, 2023–MARCH 4, 2024
+BRAD KAHLHAMER: NOMADIC STUDIO MAIN CAMP+
Bates College Museum of Art
OCTOBER 27, 2023–MARCH 4, 2024
ENCOUNTERS: WORKS FROM THE TBA21 COLLECTION
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
MAY 31–OCTOBER 9, 2023
REMEDIOS WHERE NEW LAND MIGHT GROW
C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain
APRIL 14, 2023–MARCH 31, 2024
RECENT PRESS
‘A Wound That Is On the Mend’: Indigenous Art Today, New York Times
Artist residency program launches in Northwoods, MPR News
The C3A of Córdoba inaugurates ‘Remedios’, a reflection on the healing of the world through contemporary art, EsEuro
TBA21 trae al C3A una colectiva con la que busca el «cambio necesario» del mundo actual, El Debate
Brad Kahlhamer’s Search for His Indigenous Roots from Manhattan to Mesa, Arizona, Sandra Hale Schulman