1. Brad Troemel was born on 1987 and is an American artist and writer based in New York City.
10 Facts About Brad Troemel
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Brad Troemel received a BA in Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Brad Troemel received an MFA from New York University NYU Steinhardt.
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In 2008, Brad Troemel opened the Chicago-based art gallery Scott Projects.
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In 2011, Brad Troemel began a series of exhibitions with his use of Bitcoin and the Silk Road black market.
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Those objects were presented for free to be further used by visitors and Brad Troemel himself used Silk Road-purchased identification to travel from New York to Rotterdam for the exhibition.
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In 2012, Brad Troemel launched an Etsy store primarily featuring temporary food sculptures designed to fall apart during their shipment through the postal service.
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In 2015, Brad Troemel partnered with Joshua Citarella, a former collaborator from Jogging, to create UV Production House, an Etsy store providing material kits and fabrication guidance to collectors for all-original works.
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In 2016 exhibition "Freecaching", Brad Troemel concealed his entire studio inventory in Central Park and presented GPS coordinates as magnetic puzzle certificates of authenticity at Tomorrow Gallery.
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Brad Troemel described, the exhibition was meant to be a proof of concept for discretely utilizing public space as a sharing economy art storage business model.