Bruno Grad (b.1987, Kent) is an artist based in Acme Studios, London. His practice explores painting as a mode of intensified attention, drawing on questions of perception, temporality, and the relationship between material form and transcendence. Working through recursive processes of layering, glazing, repetition, and gesture, Grad’s paintings investigate how aesthetic experience can function as a site of presence and encounter. Informed by Jewish mystical thought and contemporary debates surrounding representation and the image, his work moves between abstraction and symbolic structure to explore painting as a participatory and contemplative act.

Grad received his degree in English Literature from King’s College, University of Cambridge (2009). His most recent exhibitions inclue BFAMI 2026, Phillips Auction House; Works on Paper 7, Blue Shop Gallery; Circling Around, Calder Contemporary Gallery (2025); Lido Open 2025, Lido Stores Margate; Standing Ground, Thames-side Studios Gallery (2024). Grad was selected for the inaugural Jewish Renaissance Artist Development Programme 2025.