Brandon Lattu

Brandon Lattu is an American contemporary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Lattu "uses both photography and the idea of photography to explore relationships between meaning and representation." ^[1] In a review in Hyperallergic of Lattu's 2021 mid-career retrospective at the California Museum of Photography, Jeremy Sigler writes, "Lattu can actually be considered one of the leading pioneers of post-camera photography." ^[1]

Early Life

Lattu was born in Athens, Georgia in 1970. ^[2] In 1993 he attended Yale Norfolk and obtained a BFA from Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC in 1994. ^[3] He attended UCLA and graduated with an MFA in 1998. ^[4]

Career

Jan Tumlir in an Artforum review of Lattu's 2019 show Full to Bursting writes Lattu "speaks to the current representational excess that swells the frames of pictures and inexorably pushes out into reality." ^[5]

Lattu's work has been shown and collected by a variety of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; ^[6] Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ^[7] VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal, Canada; ^[8] California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California; ^[9] and The Mak Center, Los Angeles, California. ^[10]

Lattu currently teaches art, photography, and digital imaging at the University of California, Riverside. ^[11]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Empirical, Textual, Contextual, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, US (2021) ^[12]
• Full to Bursting, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, US (2019) ^[5]
• Not Human, Koenig and Clinton, New York, US (2013) ^[13]
• Reciprocity of Light, The Mak Center, Los Angeles (2010) ^[14]
• 3 Models, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2007) ^[15]
• 4 Models, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, US (2007) ^[16]
• Jenseits des Physisch Möglichen, Kunstverein in Bielefeld, Germany (2007) ^[17]

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (2013) ^[18]
• Walker Evans and the Barn, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2010) ^[19]
• How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, The Mak Center, Los Angeles (2010) ^[20]
• Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus, VOX Contemporary Image Center, Montreal, Canada (2008) ^[21]
• Attention to Detail, Flag Art Foundation, New York, US (2008) ^[22]
• Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Germany (2006) ^[23]
• Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (2005) ^[24]
• Brandon Lattu, Scott Lyall, Corey McCorkle, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2003) ^[25]

Influences

Morgan Fisher, Amy Sarkisian, John Knight, Adrian Piper, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, and David Hughes have all been cited as influences for Lattu. ^[26]

References

1. Sigler, Jeremy (27 January 2022). "Brandon Lattu's Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
2. "Brandon Lattu – Announcements". e-flux. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
3. "Brandon Lattu | Biography". Artnet. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
4. "Brandon Lattu | Biography". Artnet. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
5. Tumlir, Jan (31 July 2019). "Brandon Lattu". Artforum. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
6. "Brandon Lattu | Not Human | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 20 February 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
7. "Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam - Walker Evans and the Barn". Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
8. "Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus – The exhibition catalogue as object and subject - VOX". VOX Contemporary Image Centre. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
9. "Brandon Lattu Empirical, Textual, Contextual – Virtual UCR ARTS". Retrieved 12 November 2025.
10. "MAK Center for Art and Architecture". www.howmanybillboards.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
11. "Brandon Lattu – Announcements". e-flux. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
12. "Brandon Lattu Empirical, Textual, Contextual – Virtual UCR ARTS". Retrieved 28 January 2025.
13. "Not Human". Leo Koenig Inc. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
14. "Brandon Lattu: Reciprocity of Light". MAK Center for Art and Architecture. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
15. "Brandon Lattu | Biography". MutualArt. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
16. "Brandon Lattu at Koenig & Clinton New York - Artmap.com". Artmap.com. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
17. "Jenseits des Physisch Möglichen". Kunstverein Bielefeld. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
18. "Brandon Lattu | Not Human | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 20 February 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
19. "Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam - Walker Evans and the Barn". Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
20. "How Many Billboards? Art in Stead". MAK Center for Art and Architecture. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
21. "Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus – The exhibition catalogue as object and subject - VOX". VOX Contemporary Image Centre. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
22. "Attention to Detail". The FLAG Art Foundation. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
23. "Big City Lab: NYMPHIUS PROJEKTE BERLIN FRIEDERIKE NYMPHIUS". www.nymphiusprojekte.de. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
24. "Photography 2005: Group Exhibition". Victoria Miro Gallery. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
25. Perchuk, Andrew (25 February 2003). "Brandon Lattu, Scott Lyall, Corey McCorkle". Artforum. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
26. "Featured Artist: Brandon Lattu | Artcards Review". Retrieved 16 December 2024.