Ry David Bradley is an Australian contemporary artist. Bradley was born in 1979 in Australia. He is known as one of the artists at the forefront of new artistic theories and practices exploring the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art and society. In 2009, he founded the popular international website PAINTED, ETC. (www.paintedetc.com), which explores how digital technologies and imagery are contributing to reshaping the role and nature of art in contemporary societies. Bradley’s process-based practice investigates the nature of painting in an era where the boundaries between picture, video, and virtual reality are increasingly blurred. The artist’s new series of works reproduces images from the technological and natural worlds, which are imprinted on superfine transparent mesh and wrapped on a hand painted frame. Technology and nature thereby merge onto the canvas and slowly dissolve onto one another. Painting becomes a product of technology as much as a conscious act from the artist. USB sticks containing a high definition image of the works are also encased into their frames. Which raises the question: will the paintings outlive their digital representations or will the digital prevail over the material?
Recent solo & group exhibitions include Immaterial: Painting in the Digital Age, Sophia Contemporary, London, 2017; Realities, Neumeister Bar Am, Berlin 2017; The National Gallery of Victoria, 2017; Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, London 2016; The Art of The Matter, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, 2016; Not A Photo, The Hole, New York, 2015; Where Do You Want To Go Today, Brand New Gallery, Milan, 2015; Access All Areas, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City, 2015; Border Protection, Tristian Koenig Gallery, 2015. His work was recently featured in Painting, More Painting at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in 2016 and will be the subject of a forthcoming solo Kunsthalle presentation in 2018. His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia and significant private collections in Europe & the United States including the Aldala Collection.
b. 1979, Australia
Lives and Works in London and New York
EDUCATION
2013 M.F.A., Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITION
2017 Realities, Neumeister Bar Am, Berlin, Germany
Room With A Views, The Hole, New York, NY
Post Truth 2, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
21th Century, PM/AM, London, UK
Powershot, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 Overworld, COMA, Sydney, Australia
Add Paintings, The Hole, Basel, Switzerland
Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, Cologne, Germany
Dadabase, Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany
Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, London, UK
2015 Access All Areas, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Not To Be Digitized, Tristian Koenig, Sydney, Australia
Where Do You Want To Go Today, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Border Protection, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Picture Movement, Utopian Slumps Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Post Analog Painting 2, The Hole, New York, NY
New Dawn, Neumeister Bar Am, Berlin, Germany
Superposition of Three Types, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Sessions, Galerie Paris Beijing, Paris, France
Sydney Contemporary, COMA, Sydney, Australia
Watching Windows, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Seattle Art Fair, Castor Gallery, Seattle, WA
Falling From Your iCloud, Dot Project, London, UK
Art 150 9 X 5, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Wave, County, Palm Beach, FL
2016 Temporary Highs, bitforms gallery, New York, NY
Shut Up & Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
NADA NY, Evelyn Yard, New York, NY
Bruise, Et Al, San Francisco, CA
Face to Face, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy
Painting, More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Art of The Matter, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, USA
Oceans Without Surfers, PM/AM, London, UK
In The Depth of The Surface, Ex Fabrica Orrobia, Milan, Italy
Art Brussels, Brand New Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
What's Up, Soho Revue, London, UK
What's Up 2, Frieze, Portland Place, London, UK
Artissima, Brand New Gallery, Torino, Italy
Dallas Art Fair, Brand New Gallery, Dallas, TX
ALAC, Evelyn Yard, Los Angeles, CA
2015 FIAC Officielle, Brand New Gallery, Paris, France
Not A Photo,The Hole, New York, NY
Artissima, Brand New Gallery, Torino, Italy
Windoes, Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany
Miami Untitled, The Hole, Miami, FL
#BAE #AQN, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Mirrorcity, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
FIN, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
Tabularium, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Studio Model, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
The Lies Of Light, MADA, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
BYOB 2013, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Eye Darts, Strines, Melbourne, Australia
Speedshow, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
School of Global Art, LuckyPDF DIS Magazine, New York, NY
PRESS
Robert Urquhart, Elephant Magazine, 2016
Kim Brocket, Vault Magazine, 2016
Nicholas Forrest, Potent Post Internet Painting, Blouin Artinfo, 2015
Alana Kushnir, Returning to the Tabularium, Mnemonscape, 2014
Martha Cooper, Tabularium @ Slopes Reviewed, AQNB, 2014
Hamishi Farah & Aurelia Guo, An Exhibition With the Foresight to Plan its own Funeral, -
Rhizome, New York, 2014
LuckyPDF, How To Paint With Photoshop, DIS Magazine, New York, May 2012\ -
Sean Irving, Painting & The Internet, Acclaim Magazine, Melbourne, April 2012
Thomas Jeppe, Time, The Hand, Time, VCA, September 10, 2011
Amelia Hirschauer, The Immediacy & Sorrow of Obsolescence, VCA, September 8, 2011
Tarik Hindic, Fanzinescreen., Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, September 30, 2011
Sean Irving, Das500, Sydney, June 4, 2011
Aureliano Segundo, Conceptual Blogs, Vancouver, June 5, 2011
Rowan McNaught, Kill Your Darlings, Melbourne, May 18, 2011
Sean Irving, Broadsheet, Melbourne, May 6, 2011
Martin Cole, Qompendium, November, Weisbaden, Germany, 2010
Sean Irving, Metro Gallery, November, Melbourne, 2010
Gene McHugh, Post Internet, September, New York, 2010
Sean Irving, Metro Gallery, February, Melbourne, 2010
Robert Lukins, Inpress Magazine, Melbourne, November 25, 2010
Penny Modra, The Age, Melbourne, June 10, 2009
AWARDS
2014 Australia Council for the Arts
2012 APGA Research Scholarship
2012 JM Kerley Travelling Scholarship
2011 VCA Athenaeum Club Award First Prize
2011 Myer Foundation Award
COLLECTION
National Gallery of Victoria
Aldala Collection
Private Collections U.S, Europe, Asia