Anahita (Ani) Bradberry
Anahita (Ani) Bradberry is an Iranian-American artist and writer creating sculptural situations with plasma light. She has recently been featured in a solo exhibition at Diverseworks (Houston, TX), and has shown at Women & Their Work Gallery (Austin, TX), Co-Lab Projects (Austin, TX), MASS Gallery (Austin, TX), ArtSpring Lichtkunstfest (Berlin), Dominique Gallery (LA), Two Six Eight Bowery (NYC), the Washington Project for the Arts (DC), Transformer (DC), VisArts (VA), the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (DC), George Washington University's Gallery 102 (DC) and CICA — the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea). Anahita earned an MA in Art History in 2015 on Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art from American University (Washington, DC), conducting primary research in Tokyo with the help of a Mellon Grant and lecturing on her research at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. In 2024, the City of Austin and the Trail Conservancy commissioned the monumental Sun Poem through the TEMPO Public Art Program: a year-long installation at the historic Seaholm Water Intake Facility landmark in downtown Austin. Ani is a board member of MASS Gallery, a volunteer-run collaborative exhibition space in Austin, TX.