Stephen Bradley

As a trans-disciplinary phonographer and media artist, Stephen Bradley's primary practice maps and traces our relationship to place through field recordings, landscape photography, video and recorded stories juxtaposed with artifacts discarded or lost in the landscape. Currently as artist-in-residence at the Chesapeake Arts Center adjacent to this community collaborates with stakeholders involved in civic engagement. Bradley has received solo commissions, awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, Sonic Circuits VII: Walker Art Center, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma - Helsinki, Blauschimmel Atelier - Oldenberg, Germany, Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, Biacs3 - Spain, Wave Hill - Bronx, NY, and Hull Time-Based Arts - UK. His sound performances, media installations, and site-specific art works have been exhibited and presented nationally and internationally venues such as the National Trash Summit - Nationals Stadium - Washington D.C., Sandao Gallery, Xiamen University and VArts Center - Shanghai, China, radioCona FM - Ljublijana, Solvenia, InterAizoni Festival - Sardinia, Italy, Kunstradio ORF1 - Vienna, Austria, (((NOMUSIC))) - Strasbourg, France, 2006 Soundscape - Zürich, Switzerland, Transmission 003.3: Sound Art Festival - Chicago, Smithsonian Institute - Washington, D.C., Visual Arts Museum/SVA, Pulse Art, and Ricco Maresca Gallery - NYC, Megapolis Sound Art Festival, Red Room, the Vine, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Art Place - Baltimore, Maryland. Bradley teaches at UMBC in the department of visual arts, Baltimore, Maryland. Official Stephen Bradley Website.