BRAD KAHLHAMER
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Photo by Doug Miles
(b. 1956)
Brad Kahlhamer is an artist working across a range of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, performance, and music, to explore what he refers to as the "third place"—a meeting point of two opposing personal histories. His work references Native American history and culture, and his own displaced identity that straddles notions of authenticity and representation in contemporary art discourse.
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Kahlhamer’s work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Milwaukee Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, amongst others. He is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Award, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, and was a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow. He has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, most recently co-curated Exploding Native Inevitable, which traveled to the Sheldon Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Bates College Museum of Art.