Stephen Bram was born in Melbourne in 1961. He holds a Bachelor of Art from the Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne (1985) and a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (1987), and in 1996 received a Master of Arts (Research) from RMIT University, Melbourne.
In 1999 he was awarded a Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and entered the Independent Study Program at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Amsterdam. In 1995-6 Bram realised an architectural project for the Kelleher House, South Yarra, Melbourne with Brearley Foster Architects. Bram was recently included in Songs of Sirens at Ian Potter Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Cubism and Australian Art at Heide, Melbourne.
He lives and works in Melbourne.
Courtesy Hamish McKay


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