steven edgar bradbury

I grew up in South Florida, studied art at Cooper Union in the seventies, Chinese painting and calligraphy in Taiwan in the eighties. I then dropped art to become, among other things, a literary translator and literature professor, the latter for almost twenty years. In a leap of faith, I quit my job and returned to Florida in 2015 to pursue art full-time. I settled in Ft. White because it is the home of the Ichetucknee, one of the longest spring fed rivers in the world and one of the most beautiful corners of a beautiful state. It was at the water's edge I honed the "pine noir" style of my graphite drawings, many of which were started near sunset and not completed until it was too dark to see the page, a practice that introduces an element of chance. Though I occasionally work in pastel and other media, I gravitate to graphite because I love its shimmery blacks and thousand shades of gray.

Solo Exhibits
2025 - Community Church of Vero Beach, FL
2023 - Vero Beach Center for Spiritual Care, "Plein Air Noir: Landscapes of Steven Edgar Bradbury," Vero Beach, FL
2022 - Santa Fe College Art Gallery, "No Day Without a Line," Gainesville, FL
2019 - Melrose Bay Art Gallery, "Black and White with a Splash of Color," Melrose, FL
2018 - Santa Fe College President's Gallery, "Pine Noir," Gainesville, FL

Group Exhibits
2026 - Booker Creek Arts Festival, Saint Petersburg, FL
2026 - A Sense of Place 2026, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Arts, Augusta, GA
2026 - Line by Line National-Juried Show, Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Gainesville, FL
2026 - 60th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Cain Gallery, Del Mar College, Christi Corpus, TX
2025 - Artist-in-Residence at Weir Farm Historical Site, Wilton, CT
2025 - Congregational Show, Community Church of Vero Beach, FL
2025 - FOCA Invitational, Center for Spiritual Care, Vero Beach, FL
2025 - 39th Annual All-Florida Show, Alliance for the Arts, Ft Meyers, FL
2025 - 34th Annual All Florida Juried Art Show, Stuart, FL
2024 - 15th Annual International Drawing Discourse Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2024 - Trinity Art Show 8th Annual Juried Exhibition. Sacramento, CA
2024 - Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, GA
2024 - 34th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA
2024 - Exploring Monochromatic Art, artsbenicia, Benicia, CA
2023 - Landscape: Serene and Savage, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2023 - Scapes: National Juried Exhibit of Scenery Artworks, Norfolk, VA
2023 - The State of Water Juried Art, the Cade Museum, Gainesville, FL
2023 - 14th Annual International Drawing Discourse Exhibit, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2023 - Arizona Aqueous XXXVII, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2022 - 13th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2022 - Contemporary Portraits, Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas
2022 - GALEX 55, Galex Community Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2022 - 8th Catholic Arts Biennial, Verostko Center for the Arts, St. Vincent College, IL
2021 – 12th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2021 – Arizona Aqueous XXXV, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2021 – 55th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
2021 – Represent: New Portraiture National Juried Exhibition, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 – Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, "The Valdosta National 2021," Valdosta State College, GA
2020 – The Healing Power of Art: Reflecting Back, Looking Forward, Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St Charles, IL
2020 – CASPFEST: National Juried Exhibition, Lubbock, TX
2020 – Core New Art Space: Aqua, Lakewood, CO
2020 – 2nd Half—50 and Older Exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 – Liturgical and Sacred Art 2020, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IN
2020 - Liturgical and Sacred Art 2020, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IN
2020 - 11th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
2020 - 54th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christie, TX
2019 - Figureworks 2019, Wallack's, St Brigid's Centre for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
2019 - 311 Gallery Still Life Show, Raleigh, NC
2019 - Works on Paper National Juried Show, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2019 - Arizona Aqueous XXXIV, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2019 - 29th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, The Arts Council, Stuart, FL
2019 - 53rd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
2019 - Whatcom Museum, "Water's Edge" National Juried Art Exhibit and Awards, Bellingham, WA
2019 - Harn Museum of Art, "Art of Inquiry," University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2019 - Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, "Valdosta National 2019", Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2018 - Naples Art Association, "National Art Encounter 2018-2019," Naples, FL
2018 - Palatka Arts Council, "Through Bartram's Eyes," Palatka, FL
2018 - Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA), "Open Theme and Media," Gainesville, FL
2018 - GFAA, "The Self Portrait/Body Exhibit," Gainesville, FL
2018 - GFAA, "Local Inspiration," Gainesville, FL
2017 - Lanza Gallery, "Santa Fe Springs Pleinair Paint Out," High Springs, FL
2017 - Thomas Center, "Cross Creek Rising," Gainesville, FL

Awards
• Award of Excellence, for "I am a Lineman for the County," Line by Line National-Juried Show, Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Gainesville, FL, 2026

• Award of Excellence, for "Wave Study 06/19/20," Arizona Aqueous XXXVII, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ, 2023

• First Prize, for "St Agatha," Liturgical and Sacred Art 2020, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IN

• Art of Distinction Award, for "View Toward Prescott," 11th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC, 2020

• Honorable Mention, for "Headsprings at Twilight" and "Ichetucknee Headsprings #6," Valdosta National 2019, Valdosta State University, 2019

• First Prize, for "Payne's Prairie No.3," Palatka Arts Council, Palatka, FL, 2018

• Best in Show, for "Payne's Prairie Series," GFAA, Gainesville, FL, 2018

• Best in Show, for "My Tropic of Cancer," GFAA, Gainesville, FL, 2018

• Honorable Mention, for "Payne's Prairie, Off 441," GFAA, Gainesville, FL, 2018