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Brad Kahlhamer (1956 - ) although born to Native parents, Kahlhamer was raised by a German-American family and spent most of his childhood in Arizona and Wisconsin. As a young adult, the artist lived on the road as a traveling musician before finally settling in New York City. Read the full biography

Brad Kahlhamer (1956 - ) although born to Native parents, Kahlhamer was raised by a German-American family and spent most of his childhood in Arizona and Wisconsin. As a young adult, the artist lived on the road as a traveling musician before finally settling in New York City. His paintings are expressive matrices of image, text and gestural painting, reflecting a rich and peripatetic personal history. Deserts of the Southwest, waterways of the Midwest, and cities of the Northeast fall within the loosely biographical works. In New York he was introduced by his colleague Art Spiegelman to the city's underground comics scene. The influence is evident in Kahlhamer's jagged lines, informality, and improvisational tendencies. Kahlhamer's works mix visual registers: printed spray paint and acrylic; dream catchers, teepees, headdresses, eagles and buffaloes. Each work is a product of cultural hybridity, mixing abstract expressionism, graffiti and popular culture with Native American imagery that transcends tribal specificity. He has been the subject of over 31 solo exhibitions in prestigious venues such as and his work is featured in numerous public collections internationally, including: The Museum of Modern Art (New York); Tucson Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).