Brad Adkins was born in Kalispell, Montana. Adkins' individual, collaborative, and curatorial work has been presented at The Art Gym, Consolidated Works, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery, The Portland Art Museum, and PICA; and has been noted and featured in ArtNews, Artweek, Modern Painters, Punk Planet, and The Independent. His work is represented by PDX Contemporary Art (OR). BIG RED, an audio cd that documents an afternoon conversation between Adkins and Curtis Knapp on the subjects of performance, imitation, and close-up magic, was produced by Marriage Records in 2004.