{"id":18779,"date":"2023-05-22T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18779"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:45:20","slug":"brad-kahlhamer-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/brad-kahlhamer-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Kahlhamer Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Brad Kahlhamer (American, b. 1956)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kahlhamer is a multimedia artist whose work focuses on identity and culture. He has spent his life traveling as a musician which led him to New York City and his art career. He is inspired by Expressionism, multi-cultural artworks, and street culture. Kahlhamer\u2019s&nbsp; work draws from his own experiences, and refuses to easily be categorized or identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born to Native American parents in Arizona, Kahlhamer was raised by adoptive German-American parents in Wisconsin. In 1982, Kahlhamer received a Bachelor\u2019s of Fine arts from the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. His work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Denver Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Award, a Smithsonian Commission, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2020 Visual Arts Grant, and the 2017 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. His work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Bates College Museum of Art in Fall 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-601x900.webp\" alt=\"Brad Kahlhamer, Dark Self Portrait, 2019, mixed media, 20 x 15 in., Bates College Museum of Art purchase with the Alumni Collector's Society Fund, 2020.4.2\" class=\"wp-image-18780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-601x900.webp 601w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-768x1151.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-1025x1536.webp 1025w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small-419x628.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2020.4.2_small.webp 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brad Kahlhamer, <em>Dark Self Portrait<\/em>, 2019, mixed media, 20 x 15 in., Bates College Museum of Art purchase with the Alumni Collector&#8217;s Society Fund, 2020.4.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Kahlhamer (American, b. 1956) Kahlhamer is a multimedia artist whose work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18779","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19262,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18779\/revisions\/19262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}