BRADLEY HANKEY

A photo of two paintings in a gallery on white walls. One is of the ocean with clouds, and one is of giant mountains overlooking water.

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BRADLEY HANKEY: ALMOST A DREAM (2026 Exhibition)

Bradley Hankey’s paintings are an homage to the vistas of Los Angeles but also about the universality of the experience of a moment in time and the value of recognizing beauty. We have all encountered that pause at a sunset or angles of shadows or city lights at night - that breathing space when we stop everything and exist in a singular moment.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025   Almost a Dream, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2024   Familiar, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2021   Waiting for the Sunrise, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2021   Electric Embrace, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2020   Bradley Hankey: Here With Me, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2019   Watch The Sunset With Me, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2017   Shadows of Paradise, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2016   California Now, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015   California, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2014   #instalite #losangeles, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 San Francisco Art Fair with Billis/Williams Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2026 Palm Springs Art Fair with Billis/Williams Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2025 San Francisco Art Fair with Billis/Williams Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025 Seattle Art Fair with Billis/Williams Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024   21st Century Realism by California Artists, Hilbert Museum of California Art, Orange, California
2024   Cloud 9, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2024   The Cityscape Show, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2024   End of the Century, Online exhibition, HyperContemporary.com
2023   144, Paul Scott Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2023   The Cityscape Show, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2023   Supersonic Horizons, Online exhibition, supersonicart.com
2023   City Structures, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2019   Lauren Albrecht, curator. Lost in the Sky, 5/2018 - 8/2019. Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 7 Gallery, Los Angeles
2019   Works by Gallery Artists, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2019   Laguna College of Art and Design Collector’s Choice Auction, Seven-Degrees, Laguna Beach, California
2019   California Cool, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction.
2018   Group Exhibition, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
2018   Laguna College of Art and Design Collector’s Choice Auction, Seven-Degrees, Laguna Beach, California
2018   California Cool, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction.
2017   Spring Fling, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2017   California Cool, Featured Artist, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction.
2016   Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Palm Springs, California
2016   California Cool, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction.
2016   Group Exhibition, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015   Laguna College of Art and Design Collector’s Choice Auction, Montage Resort, Laguna Beach, California
2015   Gallery Artists: A Work In Progress, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015   California Cool, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction.
2015   California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, and Oceanside Art Museum, Oceanside, California
2014   California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California, Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, Frosinone, Italy
2014   Summer, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2014   Palette to Palate, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Exhibit and auction with work by ten artists.
2013   Still Summer, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2013   Summertime, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011   The Lights of Los Angeles, One Cog Gallery, Los Angeles
2010   Weho@25, Temporary Space, West Hollywood, California. Juried by Howard N. Fox, Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, LACMA
2008   Faces and Places, Gallery Sister Sorel, Boston, Massachusetts
2007   Art in Embassies, United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2007   Paint, LynnArts - Time Warner Gallery, Lynn, Massachusetts
2007   Open Studios, The Julia and David White Artist's Colony, Costa Rica

COLLECTIONS
Hilbert Museum of California Art, Chapman University

RESIDENCIES
2018   Warm Heart Art, Tanzania (one month)
2009   Conceptos Artisticos, Costa Rica (one month)
2007   The Julia and David White Artist's Colony, Costa Rica (one month)

EDUCATION
2007   Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. Degree: Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting
2002   Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon. Studied art and environmental issues

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022   Nicole Borgenicht. Five To Watch: Bradley Hankey, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Volume 19, Issue 5, October 2022, pg. 59
2019   Shana Nys Dambrot. Meet an Artist Monday: Bradley Hankey, LA Weekly, December 2019
2014   California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California, Exhibition catalog, pg. 27, published by Oceanside Museum of Art
2011   Studio Visit, Volume Sixteen, Boston. Publisher: The Open Studio Press / Steven T. Zevitas. pg. 78-79
2008   Art In Embassies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Exhibition catalog, cover credit and essay, pg. 4-5, published by the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.