Virginia Bradley resides in Philadelphia and her studio is at the Crane Arts Center in Northern Liberties. She is a Professor of Art at the University of Delaware where she teaches painting and drawing. In 2013, she will be an International Artist at ACME Studios in East London and the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Zoological Society of London in Regents Park.

Virginia has been the recipient of several fellowships, including a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Painting, Arts Midwest NEA Fellowship for Painting and two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships in Painting and Drawing. She has also completed several Percent for Art Commissions for the Minnesota State Arts Board. Virginia has also been a fellow at Yaddo, Sanskriti Kendra (New Delhi, India), Fundacion Valparaiso (Mojcar,Spain), Ragdale and the Virginia Center of Creative Arts. Bradley's work has been exhibited widely, venues include; Blue Star Center for the Arts, Hoyt Institute of Art, Freedman Gallery (Albright College), Abington Art Center, The Minneapolis Institutes of Arts, The Soap Factory and the Florence Biennale (Firenze, Italy). Virginia received her MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Miami.

"A Fragile Grace"(2012) is her newest series of work; this series is based on the effects of natural phenomena in relationship to fictional spaces that have been created by man to inhabit/occupy. In this series the underlying theme is water. Interpretations of tsunami images from Japan in March 2011, combined with Venetian images are the source material for the departure of the series. The series correlates horrendous yet poetic images of the aftermath of Japan’s tsunami with classical images from a found book of 15th century engravings of Venice. These images create a discourse between the centuries of Venice’s struggle not to succumb to the natural forces of nature with the contemporary disaster in Japan and the underlying continuous conflict between nature and the desires of man.