Brad Downey was born in 1980, in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned a fine art master’s degree in painting and sculpture from the Slade School of Art, where he studied under Bruce Mclean. Pratt Institute drew him to New York City in 1998. In 2007, Downey was awarded SEEDA Arts Plus award for a commission with the Tour de France. The artist has exhibited in venues such as the Tate Modern, the ICA in London, and Mass MOCA in the USA, Peacock Visual Arts in Scotland, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrück, Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad, in Denmark.
