Whitney Bradshaw
Chicago, IL
Visual Art
Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, and former social worker who lives and works in Chicago. Bradshaw is currently an Artist-in-Residence with Chicago Public Schools Juniors and Seniors piloting a new arts program called RE:ALIZE. Bradshaw was previously the chair of the visual art conservatory at the Chicago High School for the Arts for 10 years. Prior to that she was the curator for the renowned LaSalle Bank Photography Collection and later the Bank of America Collection. In addition, Bradshaw was an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her photographs have been widely exhibited across the United States and in Zurich. She has had solo shows at the DePaul Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Atlanta Contemporary, Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, McCormick Gallery, the Tarble Arts Center at EIU, Adler University, Villanova University and more. Her work has been included in several group shows including Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow curated by Industry of the Ordinary, Director’s Choice PhotoSchweiz 2021, Female in Focus 2020, Dock6 Design + Art 13 and 14 2020 +2022 curated by Edra Soto, Well Behaved Women 2020 at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, and In a Time of Change, 2021 with SaveArtSpace + Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Her photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern School of Law, and the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collection and have been published in the Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the LA Times, Time Out New York, 48 Hills, Vogue and many other news and media outlets.