Bradley McCallum
Bradley McCallum’s art responds to trauma and struggle, racial identity and representation, collective history, and individual responsibilities. His work includes large-scale public projects, sculpture, paintings, photography, video, and ceramics.
McCallum has exhibited at museums, art biennials, and commercial art galleries both nationally and abroad. He has received major support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
He is an experienced teacher having taught courses in sculpture, interdisciplinary conceptual art, public art, arts management, and art and law at Yale University, San Fransisco Art Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, and Columbia University.
In 1989, he founded Conjunction Arts, a nonprofit to support politically engaged art, connect artists and social justice organizations, and provide fiscal sponsorship for collaborative art projects. McCallum has exhibited at art museums and international art biennials including EVA International Art Biennial (Limerick, Ireland), Burchfield Penny Art Center (Buffalo, NY), Contemporary Museum (Baltimore, MD), SITE Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art (Atlanta, GA), The Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, AL), Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ), New York Historical Society (New York, NY), Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), Wadsworth Atheneum (New Haven, CT), and Prospect 1. Biennial (New Orleans, LA) among others.
McCallum holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives and maintains his studio in San Francisco, CA.