BIO / STATEMENT
Dominique Bradbury (b. 1988, London, UK) lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
She received her BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile (2012) and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster with Prof. Julia Schmidt (2015-2016). Bradbury received her Master in Fine Arts from Slade School of Fine Art, London (2017).
Driven by today’s heavy influx of images and its effects on social myths and everyday narratives, in recent years I’ve focused on recontextualising images from films, magazines, personal archives and the internet in general, in order to create an open standpoint on contemporary mythologies of consumerism—not to define but elaborate an ongoing research of narrative subjectivities. I give a poetic and enigmatic twist to selected, edited and rethought fragments through a language of surface, colour and texture —what I call soft-pop—, in order to open up questions about beauty, femininity, gender, originality, visual culture and history in our ever so self-aware and aspirational society. Under a gaze of both admiration and disinterest, of critique and complicity, I aim to bring forward the abstract nature these concepts which, through centuries, have acted as mirages that only carry the meaning that we, as viewers and consumers, attach to it.
EDUCATION
2017-2019 Master in Fine Arts. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (UK)
2015-2016 Postgraduate studies. Kunstakademie Münster Hochschule f. Bildende Künste (Prof. Julia Schmidt) (DE)
2007-2012 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 Fondart Creación Artística (CL)
2020 Eaton Fund Grant (UK)
2017 CONICyT BECAS CHILE Scholarship (CL)
2015 DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship (DE)
EXHIBITIONS
DUO
2023 Art Paris 2023 with Galeria AMS (FR)
2022 Error de Continuidad. Galpón G, Padre las Casas, Independencia (CL)
2021 Deriva. TIM Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago (CL)
GROUP
2023 MAPA Art Fair with TIM Arte Contemporáneo. Buenos Aires (ARG)
2023 Feria FAST. Santiago (CL)
2023 Blind Lemon. TIM Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago (CL)
2022 Playground. Factoria Santa Rosa, Santiago (CL)
2022 Premio MAVI-UC (shortlisted). Museo Artes Visuales, Santiago (CL)
2021 Trastienda. Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago (CL)
2020 Mansion. Künstlerhouse Soest, Soest, Germany (DE)
2019 Graduate Show. Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK)
2018 Interim Show. Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK)
2018 The field. ASC Gallery, London (UK)
2017 27 pintores. Galería XS, Santiago (CL)
2016 XI Premio MAVI Escondida. Museo de Artes Visuales MAVI, Santiago (CL)
2016 Förderpreis Exhibition (shortlisted). Kunsthalle Münster (DE)
2016 Rundgang 2016. Kunstakademie Münster (DE)
2015 Artefacto. Casas de Lo Matta, Santiago (CL)
2014 Sub 30: pintura joven en Chile. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Santiago (CL)
2014 VIII premio MAVI Escondida. Young Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Museum (MAVI), Santiago (CL)
2013 DIP: Departamento de Intervenciones Publicas. La casa del Ling, Mexico City (MX)
2013 Para hablar con los muertos. Local Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, Santiago, (CL)
PUBLICATIONS
2015 Pintura Chilena Contemporánea. Práctica y desplazamientos disciplinares desde la Escuela de Arte UC. Ediciones UC, Santiago (CL)
2014 Sub 30: Pintura joven en Chile. C Ediciones, Santiago (CL)
2013 Ojo andino. Chile: 170 sights of Contemporary Art. Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice (IT)
PRESS
2022 TIM. La galería Intuitiva. Revista La Panera (CL)
2019 Saatchi Art's Rising Stars (UK)
2019 10 Up-And-Coming Artists To Watch, Huffington Post (UK)
2017 Tres pintoras Sub 35. Revista Paula (CL)
2014 La nueva generación de pintores. Revista Paula (CL)