Visiting Artist: Diedrick Brackens

May 29 - Jun 11, 2022

Join us for a conversation with Visiting Artists Meleko Mokgosi and Diedrick Brackens on May 31st from 5-6PM. Visiting Artist Lectures are free and open to the public. Register here for the event and receive a link to live-stream the lecture virtually.

Diedrick Brackens lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from University of North Texas, Denton, TX and an MFA in textiles from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. His work is currently on view in Diedrick Brackens: heaven is a muddy riverbed at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles. Other recent solo exhibitions include the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; New Museum, New York, NY; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; and the University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Brackens is in the permanent collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI. He was the 2018 recipient of The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize and the 2019 recipient of the Marciano Artadia Award.