Brandon Lattu (b. 1970) is an artist whose work 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. His work particularly addresses the social structures emphasized and enforced by models of perspective and abstraction as well as spatial hierarchies in commerce, architecture and digital space.
A mid-career survey exhibition curated by Charlotte Cotton, Empirical, Textual, Contextual, was held at the California Museum of Photography in 2022. Solo exhibitions include Full to Bursting, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (2019) Not Human, Koenig and Clinton, New York (2013); Reciprocity of Light, Mak Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2010); 3 Models, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver (2007) and Vacio 9, Madrid; and 4 Models, Leo Koenig Inc., New York (2007). Jenseits des Physisch Möglichen, an early survey exhibition curated by Dr. Stefanie Heraeus was held at the Kunstverein in Bielefeld, Germany in 2007, accompanied by Office Gray Case, an artist’s book reworking the traditional monograph.
Lattu has participated in numerous international group exhibitions at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Powerstation of Art, Shanghai; Fundación Jumex, Ecatapec; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; Mak Center, Los Angeles; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Vox Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal; the Essl Collection, Vienna; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Kunsthalle Basel. Notable public collections include the Albertina, Vienna; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fondación Jumex, Mexico; the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside among others. The Centre Pompidou has collected several works and retains an archive of the artist’s posters and ephemeral materials.
Brandon Lattu lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 and his BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC in 1994. In 1993 he participated in the Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, Connecticut. Since 2008 he has taught in the Art Department at the University of California, Riverside.