Matthew Brandt and Christine Nguyen

Matthew Brandt (b. 1982; Los Angeles, CA) has mounted solo exhibitions of his work across the globe, including at the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, among others. The artist has exhibited work in many notable group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, France; and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia, among other institutions. Brandt received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and his MFA from UCLA. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

Nguyen received her B.F.A from California State University, Long Beach and M.F.A from University of California, Irvine. Exhibitions of her work have been shown nationally and internationally. Her works can be found in various collections such as the J.Paul Getty Museum Department of Photographs, Getty Research Institute, Armand Hammer Museum, Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, Los Angeles World Airport’s Collection, Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, CA; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Hanoi, VN; Long Beach Museum of Art, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach, CA; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; and Microsoft Collection. Nguyen has completed artist residencies at Montello Foundation, NV; Pacific Bonsai Museum, WA; Gyeongju Int. Residency Art Festa 2018, S. Korea; Theodore Payne Foundation, CA; BaikArt with Cemeti Art House, Indonesia; U.S Dept. of InteriorBLM Eastern Interior AIR, Alaska; Wildfjords (WFAR), Iceland; Montalvo Art Center, CA; Tamarind Institute, NM; and the Headlands Center for the Arts, CA. Nguyen is currently a 2022-2024 Redline Artist in Residence in Denver, CO.