Born Winona, Minnesota

Lives Beacon, New York


Represented by Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles


E D U C A T I O N 

2016    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006    Massachusetts College of Art, MFA, Boston, MA
1999    Drake University, BAE, Des Moines, IA


S O L O   E X H I B I T I O N S 
2024    Trojan Horses, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA

2023    Sensory Homunculus, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA

2022    Quitters, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY

2021    Birthday, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA

2019    Threshold Blues, Helena Anrather, New York, NY

2018    Forgettable Sunsets, Annet Gelink, The Bakery, Amsterdam, NL

            Live Wires, The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2016    Strange Loop, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
            Don’t Avoid Voids, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2015    Neighborhood Watch, Roy C. Moore Gallery, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA
            What Science
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2011    A Blue Thing, A Bell, and The Smoke Itself, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 

S E L E C T E D   G R O U P   E X H I B I T I O N S

2025    Anywhere But Here, Candice Madey, New York, NY

            Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art

            Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA

            Fairyland 2: Deeper, Darker, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

            XXS: The Small Works Show, Brintz + COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL

2024    Full Disclosure, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

            Therein The Beauty, Marinaro, New York, NY

            Creatures & Masks, Fabian Lang, Zürich, Switzerland

            Fever Dream, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023    Getting to Ick, Hesse Flatow, New York NY

            Polyreality, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

            The Triumph of Death, Marinaro, New York, NY

            Sunrise, Sunset, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, QC

            Everyone We Know Is Here, Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown, MA

            Breathing Room, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA

2022    10 Years, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA

            Small Paintings, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY

            Density's Glitch, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2021    Universes 4, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Gallery Droste, Paris, FR

            Conversations, Anne Barrault, Paris, FR

2020    Mother Altar, curated by Chie Fueki, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY

            UnRealism, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

            Assembly Points, Public Gallery, London, UK

            Won't You Be My Neighbor, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY

            Untitled (But Loved), Bosse & Baum, London, UK

            Painting As Is, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

            Happy Agitation, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

2019    The Painter, two person show with Heidi Hahn, Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid, ES

            Anti-Aging Kit, two person show with Lior Modan, Coustof Waxman, Brooklyn, NY 

            SFUMATO, Shandaken Paint School Show, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY

            A Fairly Secret Army, Wild Palms, Düsseldorf, DE

            Animal Idealism, Harpy, Rutherford, NJ

            Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY

            Practice, Vacation, organized by Drawer, New York, NY

            Mushrooms, Y2K group, New York, NY
            AXxoN N: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch's Inland Empire

            Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2018    Kunst4Kids, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

            Campana, Heisch, King, Miller, Mullen, Y2K group, New York, NY

            When You Were Bloom, Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY
            ZIG ZAG ZIG, DC Moore, New York, NY
            The Nose, George Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Chimera, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Point-Loops-Blooming, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
            Noonlight, Robert Blackburn Gallery, EFA Studios, New York, NY
            Belt Friction, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017    20CM From The Ground, L21, Mallorca, ES
            Paper Cuts, Kristian Day Fine Art Projects, London, UK
            Loop, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
            My head is round so my thoughts can change direction, Assembly House, Leeds, UK
            March, Meander, two person show with Antone Könst, Hometown Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            The Paperweight Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016    Erotic City, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
            The Abstract Show 4, Brickton Art Center, Park Ridge, IL
2015    Current Residents, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
            New Talent, ArtSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
            In Between Meanings, Spring/Break Art Show, NY, NY
            Open (C)all: The Artist’s Studio, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2014    Out-of-Towners, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
            The ... of E6, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
            Forced Collaboration II, Artspace, New Haven, CT

R E S I D E N C I E S   /   F E L L O W S H I P S   /   A W A R D S

2022    Chiaro Award and Residency, Headlands Center For The Arts, Sausalito, CA

2022    Marble House Project, Dorset, VT

2022    Fountainhead, Miami, FL

2021    Painting Fellow, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program

2019    Shandaken Paint School, New York, NY

2019    The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY

2019    MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2017-2018 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2017    Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
2016    The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2015-2016 Roswell Artist-In-Residence Program, Roswell, NM
2014-2015 Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2014    Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2013    Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2010-2011 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA


S E L E C T E D   B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Artforum, Barry Schwabsky, Summer 2022

The Brooklyn Rail, William Corwin, "Quitters," April 2022

Hyperallergic, Jennifer Remenchik, "A Painter's Delicate, Sexual, and Clinical Visions of Birth," Aug 23, 2021

Juxtapoz, Sasha Bogojev, “Birthday: Bridget Mullen @ Shulamit Nazarian,” July 12, 2021

Soft Punk, Jacob Barnes, "Transient Revelry-Public Gallery's "Assembly Points," January 2021

Art Maze Magazine, Rebecca Irvin, "Repetitive Loops and Endless Possibilities: The Virtual Cartoon Dream-World of Bridget Mullen's Paintings," Issue 17, Spring 2020

ArtNet, Julia Halperin and Tim Schneider, "4 Striking Trends At Nada Miami That Show Us Where the Art World- and Market- Are Headed Next," December 6, 2019

El País, Silvia Hernando, "Double Layer of Paint," December 6, 2019

El Mundo, "The avant-garde of New York art, in the Fahrenheit gallery," Nov 28, 2019

Art Maze Magazine, Issue 15, Winter 2019 

JuxtapozJessica Ross, "In The Studio with Bridget Mullen," August 11, 2019

Gorky's Granddaughter, Video Interview, 2019

Art Of ChoiceMaria Vogel, "Bridget Mullen Plays With A Chaotic Control," March 2019

The Lifted Brow, Issue 41, February 2019
Maake Magazine, Issue 6, Spring 2018

Hyperallergic, John Yau, "Painting in The Age Of Anxiety," August 5, 2018

Two Coats of Paint, "Soberly Upbeat: Summer Shows at DC Moore," August 6, 2018

Musée, "Art Out: ZIG ZAG ZIG," June 28, 2018

Lookie-LookieBeverly Acha, "Ten Painters On Doubt,December 8, 2018

ArtspaceLoney Abrams, "10 Artists to Discover at NADA New York 2017," March 3, 2017

New American Paintings, No. 126, Southwest Issue, Fall 2016
Artscope Magazine, Laura Shabott, “Fine Arts Work Center Fellows: Alexandria Smith and Bridget Mullen," January / February 2015
Gorky's Granddaughter,
 Video Interview, 2014


P U B L I C   C O L L E C T I O N S
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

AMOCA, Cardiff, Wales

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA


V I S I T I N G   A R T I S T   /   L E C T U R E S 

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA

Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY

Columbia University, New York, NY