Bradford J. Salamon (born June 23, 1963) is an American multi-disciplinary artist who paints portraits in oils, depictions of human drama, and paintings of everyday objects. Salamon is also a sculptor, short filmmaker, curator and musician.Salamon was born in Los Angeles, California to a creative family. In 1993, at the age of 30, Salamon's fascination with celebrities was waning, and he returned to school. In his mid-thirties, after graduating with a degree in art, and studying abroad, his journey led him back to portraiture. He began painting in oil, and was highly influenced by Lucian Freud and Alice Neel. From 1996 to 1999, Salamon was chosen as an official Grammy artist by The National Academy of Arts and Sciences.After Bradford’s move to Los Angeles in 2009, he began painting many LA area artists, curators, and gallerists such as Don Bachardy, Andy Moses, Llyn Foulkes and Roland Reiss. A solo show of these portraits was held at 2016 at Launch Gallery in Los Angeles.

From 2006 - 2016, Salamon was an adjunct professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA and Coastline Community College in Newport Beach, CA, teaching painting from life, as well as conducting private workshops in his Los Angeles studio.

In 2013, he had his first solo museum show, at the Lancaster Museum of Art, featuring his vintage object paintings. In 2014, Salamon was included in a group show at the Bakersfield Museum of Art (a 30-year survey of portraiture). In 2015, Salamon had a solo show at the Bakersfield Museum of Art highlighting his vintage objects. In 2016, he was the youngest artist in a group show titled "In the Land of Sunshine," which spanned nearly 200 years of California art at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. In 2017, he had two solo museum exhibitions at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University; and he was spotlighted in a 30 year survey of his work at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica, CA.

Salamon’s work is represented by Sue Greenwood Fine Art in Laguna Beach, CA, Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM, and Vault Gallery in Cambria, CA.

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