Brad Rose is an artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, working with sound, visual art, writing, and community practice. His work treats listening as foundational methodology, built through sustained attention to environments, communities, and what persists through loss.
Over two decades, Rose has developed a field recording practice shaped by Oklahoma’s landscapes, creating durational sound compositions that weave site-specific recordings with analog processes and acoustic textures. His visual work often emerges from sonic attention to materials and place, giving form to buried emotion through abstraction and mark-making. Across mediums, he treats sound and memory as living materials, holding space for transformation without demanding resolution.
Rose’s practice is grounded in the belief that listening and gift economy are fundamentally aligned. He works primarily outside institutional structures, integrating his work into mutual aid networks like Really Really Free Market, where creative exchange operates through reciprocity rather than transaction. His installations and gatherings emerge through workshops, zines, and collaboration, treating communities as co-authors rather than audiences. His current projects explore collective dreaming, community-built archives, and participatory frameworks that treat collapse as generative infrastructure rather than ending.
Rose has worked with incarcerated artists through correspondence-based collaboration and coaches other artists through technical support and creative guidance. He founded Foxy Digitalis in 1996, a platform for experimental sound and art, and co-founded The Bird House, a backyard micro-gallery in Tulsa. His latest album album, The Sound Leaves, was released by Room40 in 2023, and his work has been exhibited at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Artist Coalition, Tulsa Community College, and other venues.
Rose is the Creative Capital 2026 State of the Art recipient for Oklahoma, a MAP Fund Grantee, and former fellow with the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. His practice operates from the conviction that creative work can function as survival, care, and collective memory rather than individual production.
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