2026 State of the Art Prize, Oklahoma

About Brad Rose

Tulsa, OK

Brad Rose is an artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose work spans sound, visual art, writing, and participatory practice. Engaging themes of memory, place, and ecological transformation, he creates immersive experiences that blend experimental composition, field recording, material-based visuals, and community exchange. At the core of his work is an ethos of listening: not just as artistic method, but as a way of surviving, remembering, and imagining otherwise. He treats sound and memory as living materials, capable of tending to loss and strengthening connections. Over two decades, Rose has developed a place-based approach shaped by Oklahoma’s shifting landscapes, working with reclaimed objects, organic processes, and found sound to hold space for grief and transformation. His sonic practice weaves recordings from specific sites with analog processes and acoustic textures, creating durational pieces that hold tension between presence and absence. Through painting and mixed media, he explores intuitive mark-making and gestural abstraction, often combining organic forms with layered textures and text. Installations often emerge through workshops, zines, or informal gatherings that center shared authorship, responding to what disappears, what endures, and what might still take root. Rose founded Foxy Digitalis, a platform for experimental sound and art, and co-founded The Bird House, a backyard micro-gallery in Tulsa. He was a 2024–25 Fellow at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and a MAP Fund grantee.

Brad Rose is an artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose work spans sound, visual art, writing, and participatory practice. Engaging themes of memory, place, and ecological transformation, he creates immersive experiences that blend experimental composition, field recording, material-based visuals, and community exchange. At the core of his work is an ethos of listening: not just as artistic method, but as a way of surviving, remembering, and imagining otherwise. He treats sound and memory as living materials, capable of tending to loss and strengthening connections. Over two decades, Rose has developed a place-based approach shaped by Oklahoma’s shifting landscapes, working with reclaimed objects, organic processes, and found sound to hold space for grief and transformation. His sonic practice weaves recordings from specific sites with analog processes and acoustic textures, creating durational pieces that hold tension between presence and absence. Through painting and mixed media, he explores intuitive mark-making and gestural abstraction, often combining organic forms with layered textures and text. Installations often emerge through workshops, zines, or informal gatherings that center shared authorship, responding to what disappears, what endures, and what might still take root. Rose founded Foxy Digitalis, a platform for experimental sound and art, and co-founded The Bird House, a backyard micro-gallery in Tulsa. He was a 2024–25 Fellow at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and a MAP Fund grantee.