Bio, Statement

Bradly Dever Treadaway is a Brooklyn based artist, educator and curator utilizing lens-based image making, moving images, sound, sculpture, installation and performance to comment on the breakdown of intergenerational communication and broken familial links due to natural disaster, technological evolution, mental health challenges, societal shifts and the continuance of interpersonal detachment occurring within American communities. His work is visualized through archival interventions, recontextualizing the archive to serve as form, medium, subject matter and concept, elevating domestic ephemera and rituals while questioning material significance within the photographic medium. Treadaway creates memorials, monuments and mnemonic devices to illustrate ancestral collisions with contemporary responses.

His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, The International Center of Photography,The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Agora Gallery in Chelsea, NY, The Mobile Museum of Art, The Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, Italy, and the Lishui Museum of Photography in China. His film/video work has been screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, Union Docs, The Rencontres Internationale Paris/Berlin, Anthology Film Archives, the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, the Coney Island Film Festival, and at the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Scene: Brooklyn. Treadaway’s work has been curated by Vince Aletti, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jon Feinstein and Julian Cox and is part of the permanent collections at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Masur Museum of Art, the Ewing Gallery at the University of Tennessee, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Mobile Museum of Art. Treadaway has recently held residencies at Trestle Art Space and BRIC Media Arts in Brooklyn, Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and the Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside in NY. In 2021, he received City Artist Corps Grant to curate and produce Archival Interventions, a film screening at FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights and he is the recipient of a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant.

Treadaway is a Fulbright Scholar to Italy and a Faculty member at The International Center of Photography in New York City where he has taught a range of courses including topics related to analog and digital photography, video, sound, installation and archival interventions as the as the founding media. From 2008-2020, Treadaway also held the position of Digital Media Coordinator at ICP. Additionally, he has taught a range of courses at Bard College, SUNY Purchase, The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Barnard College and Louisiana State University. He is available for private and small group mentorship on all lens-based topics – critique and project development, technical skillsets and workflows and more.

Treadaway is the founder and curator of “Archival Interventions”, a series of exhibitions and screenings that focus on the archive in contemporary artwork.

Treadaway also remains actively engaged in a 20-year collaboration with internationally acclaimed and exhibited artist Justin Randolph Thompson.

Full CV available upon request.