Grace Bromley

Born 1994, USA

Lives and works in Virginia, USA

Grace Bromley earned a BFA in Painting from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and will be receiving her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Spring of 2024. Her work addresses interpersonal relationships through a mythic lens. Diffused within vibrant fields of colour, these figurative works function as encrypted self-portraits. Inspired by a catholic upbringing, the way that biblical stories shaped her relationship to images and storytelling, as well as growing up in a household with three generations of women. Narrative story arcs and mythologies help to discern Bromley’s fraught relationship with domesticity, mortality, strength, compassion and caretaking. Navigating these concepts through a physicality of material and density of layering, memories and dreams become indistinguishable, as the human is from an animal or the body from space. The process of morphing and mutating is essential to Grace’s practice, as it is important that things are layered and embedded both conceptually as well as materially. Through this process, she reflects upon what becomes embedded in us, and the ambiguous state of metamorphosis and becoming. Highlights of recent group exhibitions include ‘Peculiar Countenance’, D.D.D.D Pictures, NY (2023); ‘My Secret Place’, Mozuku Gallery, Taiwan (2022); ‘They’re on To You’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, NY (2022). She participated in Spring/Break Art Show Los Angeles as well as New York City as an Independent Curator in 2023. She is the Recipient of the New American Paintings Emerging Artist Grant, 2023.

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