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Brandon Lattu

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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

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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

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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]

Influences

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Morgan Fisher, Amy Sarkisian, John Knight, Adrian Piper, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, and David Hughes have all been cited as influences for Lattu.[6]

References

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  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. ^ "Featured Artist: Brandon Lattu | Artcards Review". Retrieved 2024-12-16.