Brad Nack is currently living and working out of Santa Barbara, California. Nack was born in 1958 in Manhattan NY.

He grew up on the West Coast where his father, who was chairman of the college art department, encouraged him to abandon any minor aspirations of college enrolment and to go travel around Europe. His teachers include, Robert Frame, George Goyer, Rafael Perea de la Cabada and Oscar Bucher.

When 19 years old, Nack set off with a friend and the idea of seeing the world. They decided to skip flying and use alternative transportation, like hitchhiking. In this manner they traveled to NYC via Canada. On the road towards Morocco, they stopped in the Basque Region of Northern Spain. The late 1970's Basque urban and rural landscape was layered with "Political Graffiti" and "Street Graphics".

After sailing across the Atlantic with one other person, a lunatic, in a 29-foot boat, and surviving, Nack formed an “art rock” band, The Tan. Soon they were featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and working with Doors Guitarist, Robbie Krieger.

Nack became a songwriter for Warner/Chappell Music while on a 3-year hiatus in London in the mid-80’s, where his art took a turn to live presentation with a multi-media performance project under the nomenclature Brad Is Sex. This presentation went on a traveling exhibition throughout the UK in the spring of 1988.

Upon returning to the West Coast Nack discovered a young Santa Barbara band, Toad The Wet Sprocket. As both producer and manager Nack led them to international success.

In 1992 Nack returned to the core roots of art, opting to work with the tradition of oil paint on canvas. This remains a focus of his energies, as he continues to exhibit and expand his creative vision, in part through painting.

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