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
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.