Draft:Brandon Lattu

American Artist



Brandon Lattu

Brandon Lattu is an American contemporary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Lattu "utilizes photography, sculpture, and video to investigate the constantly changing state of representation in order to push beyond the conventional empiricism that pictures of the world have traditionally invoked."[1] He is seen as one of the leading figures thinking through post camera image making.[2]

Early Life

Lattu was born May 10, 1970, in Athens, Georgia. In 1993 He attended the Yale Art Program at Norfolk, CT. He received a BFA from Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC in 1994 and an MFA from University of California, Los Angelesin 1998.[3]

Career

Lattu has had solo exhibitions at Richard Telles Fine Art, Koenig and Clinton, Mak Center for Art and Architecture, and and Kunstverein, Bielefeld. A mid career survey curated by Charolette Cotton was held at the California Museum of Photography. He has also been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Powerstation of Art, Fundación Jumex,  Museum Ostwall, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Vox Centre de L’image Contemporaine, the Essl Collection, Centre Pompidou, and the Kunsthalle Basel.[4]  

Lattu has been teaching at University of California, Riverside since 2008. And served as the chair of the art department between 2015 and 2018. In 2015 he lectured at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, which focused on digital dematerialization in art and architecture, with the title, “Expression, Elision and Destruction of Space in the Digital Era”.  These lectures were: “Taxonomy of an Archive of Experience”; “The Decorated (butt)Plug”; and “From Institutional Critique to Erasure of Public Space”.[5]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Empirical, Textual, Contextual, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, US (2021)[6]

Full to Bursting, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, US (2019)[7]

Not Human, Koenig and Clinton, New York, US (2013)[8]

Reciprocity of Light, The Mak Center, Los Angeles (2010)[9]

3 Models, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2007)[10]

4 Models, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, US (2007)[11]

Jenseits des Physisch Möglichen, Kunstverein in Bielefeld, Germany (2007)[12]

Selected Group Exhibitions

Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (2013)[13]

Walker Evans and the Barn, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2010)[14]

How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, The Mak Center, Los Angeles (2010)[15]

Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus, VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal, Canada (2008)[16]

Attention to Detail, Flag Art Foundation, New York, US (2008)[17]

Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Germany (2006)[18]

Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (2005)[19]

Brandon Lattu, Scott Lyall, Corey McCorkle, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2003)[20]

Influences

Morgan Fisher, Amy Sarkisian, John Knight, Adrian Piper, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, and David Hughes have all been cited as influences for Lattu.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Biography – Brandon Lattu". Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  2. ^ Sigler, Jeremy (2022-01-27). "Brandon Lattu's Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  3. ^ www.artnet.com https://www.artnet.com/artists/brandon-lattu/biography. Retrieved 2024-12-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Brandon Lattu: Empirical, Textual, Contextual - e-flux Education". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  5. ^ "Teaching – Brandon Lattu". Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  6. ^ "Brandon Lattu Empirical, Textual, Contextual – Virtual UCR ARTS". Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  7. ^ Tumlir, Jan (2019-07-31). "Brandon Lattu". Artforum. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  8. ^ "Not Human". LEO KOENIG INC. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  9. ^ "Brandon Lattu: Reciprocity of Light". MAK Center for Art and Architecture. 2010-09-16. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  10. ^ "Brandon Lattu | Biography". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  11. ^ "Brandon Lattu at Koenig & Clinton New York - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  12. ^ "Brandon Lattu - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  13. ^ Lattu, Brandon (2013), Not Human, retrieved 2025-01-28
  14. ^ "Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam - Walker Evans and the Barn - Wolfgang Breuer, Walker Evans, Henry Flynt/SAMO, Brandon Lattu, Alisa Margolis, Barbara McCollough/David Hammons, Gabriel Orozco, Keith Stern-Pirlot and Mieke Van de Voort. A group exhibition by guest curator Jeremiah Day". www.smba.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  15. ^ "How Many Billboards? Art in Stead". MAK Center for Art and Architecture. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  16. ^ "Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus - The exhibition catalogue as object and subject - VOX". Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus - The exhibition catalogue as object and subject - VOX. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  17. ^ "Attention to Detail". The FLAG Art Foundation. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  18. ^ "Big City Lab : NYMPHIUS PROJEKTE BERLIN FRIEDERIKE NYMPHIUS". www.nymphiusprojekte.de. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  19. ^ "Photography 2005: Group Exhibition". Victoria Miro. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  20. ^ Perchuk, Andrew (2003-02-25). "Brandon Lattu, Scott Lyall, Corey McCorkle". Artforum. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  21. ^ "Featured Artist: Brandon Lattu | Artcards Review". Retrieved 2024-12-16.
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