Richard Brady was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts and at L’ Academia della Belle Arte in Florence. He has been profoundly influenced by the near decade he spent living, studying, working, and traveling in Italy. The Italian experience shaped him as an artist, providing him with a classical education and an intimate knowledge of the Italian art tradition. Additionally, he traveled extensively in the Mid East and Asia before returning to the U.S. Currently, he lives in Concord, Ma.
His work has been exhibited widely both locally and internationally, including The Duxbury Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, Ma.), Museum of the City of New York, Wichita Art Museum, Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, Florida), Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio) Forum Gallery (NYC), Capricorn Galleries (Bethesda, Maryland), Loeb Gallery of Contemporary Art (New York University), National Arts Club (NYC), Borstahussan Art Guild (Landskrona, Sweden), Galleria Menghelli(Firenze, Italy), United States information Service (Milan, Italy).
Collections include:
-Museum of the City of New York -Wichita Art Museum -Borstahusan Art Guild (Landskrona, Sweden) -Library of Congress (Robert Blackburn Collection) -Numerous private and corporate collections in this country and abroad
Honors, awards, and media include: -Award for Excellence’ the National Park Academy of the Arts in recognition for the painting “Minuteman in Winter’(publication). -The Jerome Foundation Fellowship -‘The Multiple Image - A Guide to collecting Original Prints’ publication by Marjorie Katzenstein. Multi-color lithograph ‘The Poets Kitchen’ by Richard Brady is the example used in demonstrating the process of color lithography. -“Stunning Paintings by Richard Brady at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury” by Sue Scheible, The Patriot Ledger.com -Landskrona Konsthal’ by Silvia Halperin, Landskrona, Sweden -“Richard Brady Poetic Images’” by Loeb Center Gallery of Contemporary Art, NYU -“Painting the Town’ by Jonathan Mandel, Sunday News Magazine (color Photo) -“Contemporary American Drawing” by Capricorn Galleries, (Bethesda, Maryland) -“Painting New York” published by the Museum of the City of New York