Todd Bradley Biography
Todd Bradley is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in San Diego, California, whose work spans contemporary photography, painting, and artist books. Born in Detroit in 1970, Bradley is autistic, gay, and color-blind—identities that deeply inform his exploration of disability, identity, and American cultural narratives. His mixed media practice blends archival imagery, medical illustration, embroidery, and layered text to address themes of chronic pain, memory, and national mythology.
Bradley’s C7 series—a collection of medical-themed artworks—draws from his lived experience with spinal stenosis, using X-rays, pigment transfers, and spine-care literature to create visual metaphors for healing and vulnerability. Other bodies of work, including War Stories I Never Heard, The Fashion Statement, and From Here: Not From Here, explore environmental decay, colonialism, and the contradictions of American identity through photography and sculptural compositions.
Bradley’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre (Paris), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston), and the Museum of Fine Art in Fort Wayne. A founding member of the Snow Creek Collaborative, his artwork is included in private collections, public art projects, and academic institutions.
Through conceptually layered and politically aware works, Todd Bradley challenges viewers to engage with the fragility and complexity of both the body and the nation.
