Whitney Bradshaw

Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, documentary film producer and former social worker living in Chicago. Her work has been shown widely across the United States, including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, and Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern School of Law and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work, which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. In 2023, Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s top 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. Both she and OUTCRY are the subject of a documentary film titled OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage directed by Clare Major, which premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco in June of 2024 and has been screening across the country at museums, galleries, film festivals, colleges and universities, community centers, and non-profit organizations. The most recent screenings were at The Broad Museum in LA, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in NYC, and at the McConnell Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio. Now curator at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, she was previously the chair of the visual art conservatory at the Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts), an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago, and curator of the renowned LaSalle Bank Photography Collection.

Visit her site at www.whitneybradshaw.com