SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America presents works by contemporary artists working across the United States and Canada in a variety of mediums and modalities. The exhibition centers around works produced in the 21st century, highlighting the significant contribution Indigenous artists have made and continue to make to broader culture from 2000 to 2020.

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Highpoint Editions publishes fine art prints made by invited professional artists in collaboration with Highpoint Editions staff and Master Printer Cole Rogers. Highpoint advances the work of artists by presenting artists’ projects to a broad public through gallery shows, lectures and symposia, and placing Highpoint prints in important public and private collections around the world.

After a presentation of audio-documentarian Melissa Olson’s new podcast, visitors will join Olson and journalist and co-producer Ryan Dawes in a conversation about cultural representation and transracial adoption in Brad Kahlhamer’s multifaceted work.

October 3, 2019 - January 25, 2019

August 12, 2019

The works on view at Brad Kahlhamer: A Nation of One and Bowery Nation + Hawk + Eagle mingle the artist’s unapologetic storytelling with festivals of image, text, line, and color.

June 20 – August 25, 2019

June 20, 2019

Kahlhamer’s work is part fantasy, part autobiography. In a way, it’s an exploration of an unreconciled personal history.

January 16, 2019

Two artists drawing from punk, graffiti, and traditional Native American aesthetics, talk about protest art and the notion of the “Post-Smithsonian delinquent.”

April 29, 2016

 One surprise is Brad Kahlhamer’s 2014 hanging wire sculpture “Super Catcher,” which looks like dream catchers caught in an archaic fisherman’s net, studded with small bells. “The rattling makes me think of native dance rituals,” said Mr. Garrels, who placed the work in a new gallery exploring “issues of cultural identity.” 

August 29–December 9, 2016

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and Headlands Center for the Arts are pleased to announce artist Brad Kahlhamer as the recipient of the 2016 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship. Established in 1998 by the family of renowned painter Richard Diebenkorn, who studied and taught at SFAI beginning in the 1940s, this fellowship makes it possible for a contemporary artist to both teach at SFAI and pursue independent studio work as an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.

September 8, 2015

Traditionally, katsina dolls, essential to Hopi and Zuni Native American traditions, serve as messengers between the earthly and spiritual realms, often imparting moral lessons to young children. Representing the spirits of deities, animals, natural growths and deceased ancestors, the dolls are often made from cottonwood root, featuring crescent-shaped mouths, beaks or snouts, as well as bird wings, feathers, and animal horns.

October 4, 2015 - January 17, 2016

As the exhibition, Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980, comes to a close at the Denver Art Museum, we invite you to join us for a day-long symposium that features noted scholars and artists who will explore influences on Fritz Scholder’s Indian series and the continuing legacy of his work.

February 2016

In his catalog easy for Super Indian, artist Brad Kahlhamer discusses Scholder’s Indian portraits with respect to the context in which many of them were painted: the era of Vietnam, civil rights protest and also psychedelia, pop music, and rock’ n’ roll.

October 4, 2015

Super Indian will be on view at the Denver Art Museum Oct. 4, 2015, through Jan. 17, 2016. Following its Denver debut, the exhibition will travel to the Phoenix Art Museum (Feb. 26, 2016–June 5, 2016) and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas (June 23, 2016–Sept. 18, 2016).

September 15, 2015

In an interview in Flash Art, Kahlhamer explained the third place, “…I see multiculturalism as involvement with a specific community, while abstract painting maps the self. Abstraction is a form of cartooning with its own signatures and readings, but in the end is perceived as person. I’m profiling myself, but am interested in the history of those caricatures as well. Basically, I’m making landscapes that I can live in, within that history.”

March 9 - May 10, 2015
Artists on Artworks — Brad Kahlhamer on Friday, March 13, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio) 

See the Met's collection through artists' eyes. Each artist discusses works of art in the collection that have influenced his or her own work. Note: Limited to 45 people; stickers are distributed 20 minutes prior to the talk in Gallery 534, Vélez Blanco Patio, first floor.

Brad Kahlhamer works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, and performance. His work explores what he refers to as the "third place"—where two opposing personal histories intersect. Explore his work currently on view in the exhibition The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky.artist Brad Kahlhamer (March 13) and a printmaking workshop by Edgar Heap of Birds (March 14) will also be presented.

January 12, 2015

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fosters the legacy of the artist’s life, work, and philosophy that art can change the world. We increase access to Rauschenberg’s art, offer a residency program for artists of all disciplines, and support initiatives at the intersection of arts + issues.

November 14, 2013

November 8, 2013

July 15, 2012, to February 24, 2013
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

 "Brad Kahlhamer's gallery-filling installation, Bowery Nation, brings together 100 small, figurative sculptures that speak not only of the artist's Native American roots, but also to his time spent with the vibrant creative community on New York City's Lower East Side…”

October 18 – November 16, 2013
Opening reception for the exhibition:
Friday, October 18, 6 – 8 PM524 West 24th Street

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce A Fist Full of Feathers, Brad Kahlhamer's first exhibition with the gallery which will include new paintings, sculpture and his installation, Bowery Nation, 1985-2012.

July 10, 2013

NEW YORK — On Wednesday, the Pace Gallery on Twenty-fifth Street was empty of art. Instead, the room contained just a low white rope, cordoning off a simple wooden bench and a white square stage. The set-up was an homage to Marina Abramović's MoMA retrospective "The Artist is Present," in preparation for the filming of Jay-Z's new music video, "Picasso Baby." (The upcoming single is from his latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail.) Directed by Mark Romanek, the final video will be edited from the six hours Jay-Z spent that day performing "Picasso Baby" over and over again in the white gallery space. And the crowd was not just any crowd, but an assemblage of hundreds of artists, actors, writers, designers, producers, and directors (along with their assistants, publicists, and children). Some were old friends of Jay-Z, such as Lyor Cohen and Rosie Perez. Others were artists whose work he and his wife Beyoncé collect, like Laurie Simmons, Aaron Young, and Marilyn Minter.

Huffington Post: Jay-Z Dances With Artists And Curators In Chelsea For 'Picasso Baby' Video Shoot

Link to Youtube Video

January 27, 2013

A Fresh Approach to Contemporary Painting

In the late 1970s, Brad Kahlhamer visited the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The Heard’s mission is Native American arts and culture, and Kahlhamer was drawn there because of a growing interest in his Native blood and a resultant fascination with indigenous American art, particularly from the Southwest.

(December 12, 2011)

#16: Man Man, Life Fantastic (feat. work of Brad Kahlhamer) via pastemagazine.com

In March, the art tribes gathered at the Armory and the Independent art fairs in New York. New York snapped portraits of some as they walked by.

Brad Kahlhamer: "Yondering" Path-minding vignettes and stories, spirit meandering, signseeker-walkabouts (2/20/2011)

Laurie Anderson and Anna Brenner invite you to Stone Open House

From the practical to the theoretical, SOH will be a place to hang out, drink great coffee, read, listen to unusual presentations and invent alternative ways to live and work. Part think tank, part party, SOH will host a series of presentations that cover a wide range of topics- from the history of boilers to teaching music to dogs. SOH will present a library of must-read books for people interested in expanding in unpredictable ways.

Brad Kahlhamer: "Yondering" Path-minding vignettes and stories, spirit meandering, signseeker-walkabouts (2/20/2011)

 Friday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Brad Kahlhamer and Kelsey Barrett’s performance work has been described as path-minding stories, spirit meandering, signseeker-walkabouts that combine voice, guitar, drums, and sound. Their performances include pointed stage visuals, sound effects supporting grass-fed stories and desert tales gathered from personal experience, with occasional music vignettes hawk-circling the rising narrative smoke…at times with a few shreds of the words of Diné (Navajo) poet Sherwin Bitsui poetry woven in…

"I did a lot of roaming while working on Life Fantastic. I’m still not living anywhere. I’m still drifting, but it’s a more centered drifting. I was down in Texas visiting my dad and we went to the contemporary art museum. We saw a Weird America exhibit, the only thing that grabbed my eye were these paintings by this artist Brad Kahlhamer. I connected with them because they were chaotic, violent, and beautiful… The three sculptures in the album artwork are by him…They embody birth, life, and death. The guy on the cover is birth, it represents the playful side of the album.”

Paste Magazine: Catching Up With Man Man (excerpt on album artwork):

"When you look at the full album, it’s actually a triptych. During this whole period, I was down in Texas visiting my dad. We went to go see a concert in Houston (he lives in Austin) and had time to kill. So we went to the contemporary art museum. It had a Weird America exhibit, and Brad Kahlhamer…is this New York artist who’s been doing this for a really long time. I connected to it because I thought they were really beautiful, dark images. I was turned onto his totems, which there are hundreds of…I picked three that are kind of like birth, living and death. It translates when you see the whole thing—we wanted to have a stark, simple image.”

Read about Man Man's Life Fantastic at The Deli Magazine.

The Sisley Art Project, commissioned by Sisley, the Italian fashion brand of the Benetton Group, and curated by Glenn O’Brien, features 18 leather motorcycle jackets specially painted by 17 of today’s leading fine artists.

artcritical.com (March 2011) 

Brad Kahlhamer’s journey is a physical ongoing pilgrimage. Born of Native descent, Kahlhamer was adopted by German-American parents and eventually moved from his birthplace Tucson, Arizona to Wisconsin and from there to New York in 1982.

Issue Q was done in collaboration with Deitch Projects, a gallery set on challenging boundaries in the art world. The issue compiles Deitch Projects’ most provocative and influential artists, affiliates, designers, musicians, and fashion designers. Includes an exclusive interview with Jeffrey Deitch, the virtuoso behind Deitch Projects.