Garrett Bradley

1986 (age 37–38)

New York City, U.S.

Smith College, UCLA

Filmmaker

2014–present

Alone; America; Time

Peter Bradley
Suzanne McClelland

American Academy of Arts and Letters: Art, Arts and Letters Awards (2022); Sundance Film Festival; Best Director, US Documentary Competition (2020); Prix de Rome (2019); Creative Capital Grantee (2019)

Early life and education[edit]

Bradley was born in New York City in 1986[1] to abstract painters Suzanne McClelland and Peter Bradley.[2] Her parents divorced when she was two years old.[3] At sixteen, Bradley made her first film, which involved her interviewing each of her parents about art, the other parent, and why they got a divorce.[2] For Bradley, this first film project was an opportunity to ask her parents questions that she "didn't feel safe asking without a camera."[4] She titled the film Be-Bop Fidelity and submitted it to the Bridge Film Festival run by her high school, the Brooklyn Friends School; there she won her first film award.[5][6]


Bradley studied religion at Smith College, graduating in 2007, then earned her MFA in Directing at UCLA in 2012.[3][7] She is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[1] Bradley's professional work began in college as a concert photographer for Central Park's SummerStage.

AKA, COMA, Sydney, Australia

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Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

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2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Toni Morrison's Back Book, David Zwirner, New York, NY

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at IMDb

Garrett Bradley

Alone at the New York Times