Bridget Mullen charts somatic experience through exaggerated and repetitive forms, toggling between abstraction and empathy. She received the Chiaro Award from Headlands Center for the Arts in 2022, a painting fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2021, and a studio fellowship from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2017. She has been awarded residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Fountainhead, MacDowell, The Macedonia Institute, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Lighthouse Works, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program,The Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Her recent solo exhibitions include Trojan Horses and Sensory Homunculus, Nazarian/Curcio, Los Angeles; Quitters, Nathalie Karg, New York; Threshold Blues, Helena Anrather, New York; and Forgettable Sunsets, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam. Recent group exhibitions include Marianne Boesky, New York; Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal; Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid; Fabian Lang, Zürich; Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Hesse Flatow, New York; and Plains Art Museum, Fargo. Mullen’s work has been reviewed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Juxtapoz. Zolo Press and Nazarian / Curcio co-published, Birthday (2024), cataloging an ongoing series of small-scale paintings that uses the birth moment as springboard for inventing compressed compositions of various bodily contortions. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; AMOCA, Cardiff, Wales; Drake University, Des Moines, IA; and Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM. Mullen holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a BAE from Drake University. She was born in Winona, Minnesota and lives in Beacon, New York.