Garrett Bradley

Garrett Bradley (born 1986, New York City, New York, United States) is an American artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary moving-image practice explores race, class, public memory, justice, and familial intimacy. Working across film, video installation, documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema, Bradley examines social and political life through archival material, close collaboration with her subjects, and a poetic visual language that blends documentary observation with formal experimentation. Bradley studied at Smith College and later earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles; she also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work often engages incarceration, Black life, historical absence, family, and the politics of representation, using black-and-white cinematography, archival research, multichannel installation, and hybrid film structures to consider how lived experience and collective history are shaped by American social systems. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art. Garrett Bradley lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.