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Garrett Bradley is an American artist, educator, and filmmaker. In 2020, Bradley presented her debut feature-length documentary, Time which was nominated for more than fifty awards—including an Oscar—and won twenty, including the 2020 Peabody Award and the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition category at that year’s Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to win the award in the history of the festival. Bradley was a 2015 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a recipient of the Prix de Rome (2019), the Arts and Letters Award for Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022), and the Eye Filmmuseum’s Eye Art & Film Prize (2023). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); the Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Arkansas (2021); the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh (2022); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022). Bradley’s recent book Devotion, released in February 2024, was the first in a series of research-led publications on artists by MIT Press and Lisson Gallery.