Mark Bradford (b. 1961 Los Angeles) received a BA and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1995 and 1997 respectively. Selected exhibitions include Lombard-Freid Fine Arts in New York, ARCO 2003 in Madrid, Studio Museum in Harlem in New York and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Nancy Graves Foundation Grant and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. He is represented by Sikkema, Jenkins & Co. in New York. Mark Bradford lives and works in Los Angeles.