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Whitney Bedford - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Whitney Bedford Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2023.
Photo by Evan Bedford.

Whitney Bedford (b. 1976 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California in Los Angeles, CA.

Bedford has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Art: Concept, Paris, France; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Taymour Grahne, New York, NY.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at international institutions including the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France; Hotel de Ville, Pont-Aven, France; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

Her work is included in the collections of Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, among others. 

She is the recipient of awards including the Pollock Krasner Award; UCLA D’Arcy Hayman Award; UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner; Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft Atelier, Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship, Venice, Italy. 

Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. 

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