James Bradley

JAMES BRADLEY
Born Orange, CA 1980

EDUCATION

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts Degree awarded May 2009

California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Bachelor of Arts Degree awarded June 2003

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“The World as Willful Misrepresentation,” P.Bibeau, New York, NY, April 2021
“Flowers of Emptiness,” Urbanite, Portland, OR, October 2019
“Enter Batgirl, Exit Illuminazi,” Maniac Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 2011
“The S.S.S.S.S.S. Presents: Obama Trauma,” Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA, May 2010
“We Rule the School,” Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA, May 2003

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 – “Time of W,” P.Bibeau, New York, NY
2020 – “A Generous Kingdom V,” Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
“Shoreline Arts Festival,” Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
2019 – “Spellbound,” Splendorporium, Portland, OR
2018 – “7 Deadly Sins & the Lover’s Eye,” Splendorporium, Portland, OR
2017 – “Mind Control,” Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2016 – “Networked Souls,” Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2014 – “First Class: An International Mail Art Exhibition,” Port City Gallery, Portland, OR
“The Possible,” Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2013 – “Annual Small Works Juried Competition,” Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 – “Streetopia,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
“How We Leave and Return: Intersections of Art and History,” Angel Island Visitor Center, Angel Island, CA
2010 – “Out of the Flat Files,” Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Something,” Sight School, Oakland, CA
2009 – “How to Survive Y2K: MIAMI 00-09,” Maniac Gallery at Verge Art Fair, Miami, FL
“The Something,” Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Wrong!” 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
“Novus Taedium Seclorum,” Maniac Gallery, Oakland and Los Angeles, CA
“Children of the Revolution,” Federal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
“2009 MFA Show,” California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Out of the Flat Files II,” Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Post-Bling,” PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Paradox of the Sets,” Onsix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Rock Paper Scissor,” Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“For Lovers and Fighters,” Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
“Illusion Helps,” Orange Alley Project, San Francisco, CA
2008 – “As Above So Below,” Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, San Francisco, CA
“There is Nothing Funny About a Clown in the Moonlight,” Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
“Mission School Resume Writing Workshop,” PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“I’m Scared Because There’s Only One of You,” SoCha, San Francisco, CA
“Ready to Pop,” Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
“FTW AKA PMA,” The Tricycle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Rainbow Show,” Café Royale, San Francisco, CA
2007 – “All Artists Circle,” North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA
“The Notebook Show,” PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 – “Ender’s Game,” The Pixel Palace, Riverside, CA
2005 – “Swans and Automatons,” Castle of Sleep, Riverside, CA
“Coming Home: Art Alumni Exhibition,” Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA
2004 – “The End of Sketchbook History,” Qtopia, Los Angeles, CA
“Neon Hates You,” The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2002 – “Saturation,” Back to the Grind, Riverside, CA

PUBLICATIONS

The Black Box, Spring 2024
The Black Box, Spring 2022/2023
Caustic Frolic: Vol 7, No. 2, Fall 2022
Caustic Frolic: Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2022
Caustic Frolic: Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2021
Last Stanza Poetry Journal #4, 2021
Poetry Quarterly #43, Fall 2020, Prolific Press
Daily Trumpet, July 2020
Poetry Quarterly #39, Fall 2019, Prolific Press
Vision Quest #14, 2019
S/WORD #9, Fall 2019
Caustic Frolic: Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2019
S/WORD #8, Fall 2018
Contra Equus Niveus: Vol. IV, January 2017, Hexagon Press
Caustic Frolic: Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 2016
Anamesa: Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2016
Anamesa: Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2016
Lightning’d Press: Issue 9, March 2016
Columbia Journal, March 3, 2016
The Cloud of Unknowing (Chapbook), Hexagon Press, 2016
Poetry Quarterly #22, Summer 2015, Prolific Press
Sparks of Consciousness, June 2015
LIES/ISLE: Issue 8, January 2015
Crack the Spine: Fall 2014 Anthology, Crack the Spine Press
Synecdoche, Fall/Winter 2014
Madhat Lit, October 9, 2014
3Elements Review No. 5, Fall 2014
Eccolinguistics 3.1, September 2014, Delete Press [archived]
S/WORD #4, Summer 2014
Crack the Spine #121, July 30, 2014, Crack the Spine Press
The Possible Artist Book, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2014
HAARP: Vol. 1, No. 3, May 2014, Hexagon Press
INCIDENT Magazine #1, April 2014
HAARP: Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2014, Hexagon Press
Eccolinguistics 2.4, April 2014, Delete Press [archived]
Mirrors of Azazel (Chapbook), Hexagon Press, 2014
HAARP: Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2014, Hexagon Press
Counterexample Poetics, February 10, 2014
Sein und Werden, Winter 2013, ISMs Press
Anamesa: Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 2013
BLACK&WHITE: Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 2013, Red Ochre Press
La Fovea, 2013
Gone Lawn #12, Autumn 2013
Caliban Online #12, July 2013
Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present, Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter, Burgerworld Media, 2008

PRESS

“Time of W.” O Fluxo, August 2022
“Inside A Generous Kingdom V: Along the Road to Beulah with Artist James Bradley.” Verum Ultimum Gallery, January 2021
“The Possible.” In the Make, April 2014
Carlson, Michele. “How We Leave and Return: Intersections of Art and History.” Art Practical Issue 3.16/ Nomadic Tendencies, July 2012 [archived]
McChrystal, Carol Anne. “Erin Allen and James Bradley: New World Boredom.” Art Practical Shotgun Review, July 2009 [archived]
Gannon, Victoria. “New World Boredom.” KQED Arts, July 2009