Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, and former social worker who lives and works in Chicago. Bradshaw is currently an Artist-in- Residence with Chicago Public Schools piloting a new arts program called RE:ALIZE. She was previously the chair of the visual art conservatory at the Chicago High School for the Arts for 10 years. Prior to that she was the curator for the renowned LaSalle Bank Photography Collection and later the Bank of America Collection. In addition, Bradshaw was an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago for 13 years. She has had solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the DePaul Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, McCormick Gallery, the Tarble Arts Center at EIU, Adler University, Villanova University and more. Her work was included in Dock 6 Design & Art 13 + 14 2020 +2022 curated by Edra Soto, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 2022 curated by Industry of the Ordinary, Director’s Choice PhotoSchweiz 2021, Female in Focus 2020 juried by Lisa Volpe, Well Behaved Women 2020, and In a Time of Change, 2021. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern School of Law, Dawoud Bey, and the Sara Vance Waddell Collection. Her work has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the LA times, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue and aired on WTTW Chicago Tonight.
