about

Since age 12 (in 1965), growing up in Portales NM, Brad Bealmear has been a working photographer. After attending Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara CA, he worked as a commercial photographer based in Santa Fe NM, traveling the US and beyond photographing cars, architecture, fashion, gold mines, food, art and other subjects. In 1983 he moved his family to NYC and began photographing jewelry, leather goods, crystal, porcelain, fragrances and other luxury items for advertisements and catalogs.

Brad and his wife returned to Santa Fe in 2006, where he continued to photograph commercially and as fine art, and also began to paint, hoping to reflect his attitude regarding our species and its treatment of the planet and its life. As global warming and extinctions increasingly show, it’s a valid concern. His paintings have been featured in two solo pop-up shows at FOMA Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and has been exhibited and collected in the US and internationally.

Throughout his commercial career Brad has also produced black and white fine art photographs. This continues with New Mexico Wanderings. All images from the series are available as prints, as indicated in the captions.

Thank your for your interest in the photographs of Brad Bealmear.

Painting Exhibitions and Events

TAAC Fall Exhibition (October 2026)

Santa Fe Studio Tour (June 2026)

Pleiades Gallery Group Exhibition, NYC (Jan 2026)

Hal Bromm Gallery Christmas Show, NYC (Dec 2025)

Strata Gallery “Small Works” (January 2026)

TAAC FEX25 (November 2025)  

TAAC Group Exhibition (April 2025)

FOMA Santa Fe, Solo Exhibition (February 2025) 

Miami Art Basel, Plogix Project (December 2024)

Santa Fe Studio Tour (September 2024)

TAAC Inaugural Exhibition, Group Show (2022)

FOMA Santa Fe, "The Reckoning," Solo Pop-Up Show (2019)   

City of Mud Gallery, "Outrage" (2018) 

Peters Projects, "Axle Indoors at Peters Projects" (2015)