Christian Patterson

Christian Patterson was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and lives in New York, New York. He is a self-taught artist. His conceptually grounded, narratively driven, visually layered work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place and time. It includes photographs, drawings, paintings, objects, video and sound. Patterson is the author of three books, including the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Redheaded Peckerwood (2011, Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award) and Bottom of the Lake (2015). He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013) and winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015). His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. He has lectured, mentored and taught widely. He is represented by Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin.

Index

Photobooks, selected by Christian Patterson