Diedrick Brackens received his Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Denton. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennials and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Holburne Museum, Bath (2025); Savannah College of Art and Design (2025); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2023); Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2022); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2021); Blanton Museum (2020); and the New Museum, New York (2019).
Brackens’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Studio Museum of Harlem, among others. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Joyce Alexander Wein Prize (2018), Los Angeles Artadia Award (2019), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019), the American Craft Council Emerging Voices Award (2019), Art Matters Foundation Fellowship (2020), United States Artists Fellowship (2021).
