Garrett Bradley is an American artist, educator, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose work spans narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships and sociopolitical histories within the United States.

In 2020, Bradley presented her debut feature-length documentary, Time, which was nominated for more than fifty awards—including an Oscar—and won twenty, including the 2020 Peabody Award and the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition category at that year’s Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to receive the award in the history of the festival. Bradley was a 2015 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a recipient of the Prix de Rome (2019), the Arts and Letters Award for Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022), the Eye Filmmuseum’s Eye Art & Film Prize (2023)  the United Artists Fellowship (2024) and a 2024 Guggenheim Award.

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Bradley’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); the Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Arkansas (2021); the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh (2022); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022). Her work is celebrated in collections worldwide, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Tate Modern, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA), The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), The Smith College Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Bradley co-founded Creative Council, an artist-led after-school program aimed at developing strong college art portfolios for students attending public high schools in New Orleans. Creative Council was supported and facilitated through the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC).

Garrett Bradley: Revolutions, curated by Rebecca Matalon, will debut in June 2025, marking the artist’s first European solo exhibition, at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam.

Alongside Executive Editor and Artistic Director of Primary Information, James Hoff, Bradley is co-editing a facsimile edition of The Harlem Book of the Dead, (scheduled for a fall 2025 release). She is also adapting a feature length film adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal 1993 novel Parable of the Sower. Bradley lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bradley’s film Alone (2017) was acquired by the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2022.