(b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA)

Matthew Brandt received his BFA from Cooper Union and MFA from UCLA. Brandt has been the subject of institutional solo shows at the Newark Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah. Recent group exhibitions include works in New Territory: Landscape Photography Today at the Denver Art Museum,The Magic Medium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Second Chances at the Aspen Art Museum; What is a Photograph? at the International Center of Photography, New York; and Land Marks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Brandt was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet Award in 2015 and had his work showcased in an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Collection, NY; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Cincinnati Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Danish Library, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; High Museum, Georgia; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. In 2014 a monograph devoted to Brandt’s work was published by Damiani. Matthew Brandt lives and works in Los Angeles.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

• The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

• The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

• Guggenheim Collection

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

• The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN

• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

• The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

• The Royal Danish Library, The National Photographic Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

• The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

• The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

• The Mohn Family Foundation

• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

• UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland