| LC control no. | n 2004013879 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bradford, Mark, 1961- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1961-04-02 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Installations (Art) |
| Affiliation | California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture Wexner Center for the Arts Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Profession or occupation | Artists |
| Found in | Joo, Eungie. Bounce, c2004: title page(Mark Bradford) page 86, etc. (artist, b. 1961, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) African American National Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bradford, Mark; installation artist; born 02 April 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States; B.F.A. and an M.F.A from the California Institute of Arts (1995, 1997); uses material from urban environment to depict African American life; brilliant artwork includes a post-Katrina 64-foot-long ark built in a vacant lot; another piece, Scorched Earth is characterized by giant spears that stab the sky with triumph (2006); exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others; honors include, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003); the Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art (2006); the MacArthur Fellowship (2009)) |
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