Braden Skelton is from Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BA from the University of Georgia in Philosophy and Film Studies, and his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

EDUCATION

MFA Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BA Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Georgia, Cum Laude

AWARDS

2022-2023 New Artist Society Award

2022 Olive Clin Meskimen Scholarship

2022 Howard and Donna Stone Scholarship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023/2024 GENRE FICTION Weatherproof, Chicago, IL

2018 STOLEN OBJECT SERIES, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Minionics, Pop Gun, Brooklyn NY, Chicago IL

2024 FEVER DREAM, The Plan, Chicago IL

2023 10 Desirous Adjustments, Switch-Hook Projects, Chicago IL

2023 Graduate Exhibition 2 (thesis), SAIC Washington Gallery, Chicago IL

2022 Sproftacchel Park, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL

2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY

2018 EXTRA!, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

2018 The Golden Record: Far Beyond Our Galaxy, curated by Brooke Leeton, Rebecca Brantley, Jon Vogt, and Paula Runyon, Athica Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, GA

2018 43rd Juried Exhibion, curated by Wassan Al-Khudairi, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA

2017 UGA Undergraduate Curated Exhibition, curated by Candice Greathouse of Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025-present Shop Manager of 45 Shops at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

2024 Adjunct Faculty, The University of Georgia

Visual Thinking ARTS 2100e

Transmedia ARTS 3800

2021-2023 Teacher’s Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Visual Critical Studies- 4090 Building as Form

Sculpture- 2008 Mold Making and Casting

Sculpture- 3115 Foundry: Industry Morphologies

Contemporary Practices 1011 - Studio Practice

2021-2023 3D Object Lab technician, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

email : skeltonbraden@gmail.com

instagram : @skelton1000kg