Name Mateo Tannatt | Role Artist | |
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Education University of California, Los Angeles |
Mateo Tannatt
Mateo Tannatt (born 1979) is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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He works in a variety of media and often creates sculptures which incorporate live actions or performances. In one work, a baby grand piano is dropped from a height of 80 feet in order to create an audio "composition."

Selected exhibitions

2012

"When Attitude Becomes Form Becomes Attitude" - Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

2011

"All of This and Nothing" - The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2010

"Rendezvous Vous" - Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

2009 "Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection" - The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2008
"Plein Air" - Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles "Present/Futures" - Artissima, Turin, Italy - winner of the Illy Present Future Prize
2007 "Brain Form" - Guild & Greyshkul, New York "Reality Disorder" - Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2006
GRUPE, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York
2005
Bigger than the Sun, Smaller than You, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
Put it in Your Mouth/I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York