Christian Patterson’s conceptually grounded, narratively driven, and visually layered work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and often deals with themes of the authorship, memory, place and time. Photographs are the heart of his multidisciplinary work, which includes drawings, paintings, objects, video and sound.

Patterson is the author of four books: Sound Affects (2008), Redheaded Peckerwood (2011, Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award), Bottom of the Lake (2015, shortlist, Aperture-Paris Photo Book of the Year), and the forthcoming Gong Co. (2024).

He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015) a New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow (2022), and James Castle House Resident (2023).

His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), J. Paul Getty Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and his books are in many institutional artist book collections.

Patterson has lectured, mentored, and taught widely and has led over 15 workshops throughout North America and Europe.

He is represented by Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany.