Carlson Hatton

Carlson Hatton lives and works in Los Angeles and received a BFA from the Cooper Union in NYC. He moved to the Netherlands for a postgraduate program in Amsterdam at de Ateliers and later continued on to a studio arts laureate program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the city of Maastricht. He is a full-time professor of art at Santa Monica College.

Hatton has had solo exhibitions at Luis de Jesus, Good Mother Gallery, Patrick Painter, and Ruth Bachhofner Gallery. He has additionally had group exhibitions at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, The Torrance Art Museum, The Carnegie Art Museum, de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, Gallerie Nouvelles Images in The Hague, The Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. Hatton’s artistic output also includes public art projects, including the design of 10 large murals for Los Angeles Metro along the K Line. Hatton's complexly layered compositions challenge a fixed point of view and consider how our visual experiences are informed by memory, intuition, and emotional response. His unique fusions of drawing, printmaking, and painting are often infused with color, optical patterns, and psychedelic qualities.

Jan van Eyck Academie (Laureate program for Art, Theory and design),Maastricht, the Netherlands

de Ateliers, Post-Graduate Program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Cooper Union (BFA), New York, NY

2025-
Counterfeit Immortality, (Solo),Good Mother Gallery, LA, CA

2023-
Here: Arts & Culture Along the K, Museum of African American Art, (Group show) Los Angeles, CA

2021-
Take a Moment to think of a relaxing location or situation.. Luis De Jesus, (Solo) Los Angeles, CA

2020-
"Bakers Dozen (Group exhibition), Torrance Art Museum,
Torrance, CA

2019-
"New American Paintings Exhibition", Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles,(Group) CA

"New Faces: Mid-Career Artists LA / NY, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, (Group) Los Angeles, CA

"Event Horizon", CMAY Gallery, (Solo) Los Angeles, CA

2018-
"#Ruckergallery", (Group), Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY

"Post Digital Marks" (3-person exhibition) TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia

"Asynchronous", (Group), Gallerie Nouvelles Images

2016-
"Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection", Carnegie Musuem, (Group) Oxnard, CA
"Black hills", Patrick Painter, (Solo) Santa Monica CA

2015- " Material Wealth, (group) Redlands University, CA

2015- Carlson Hatton at Patrick Painter (Solo), Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica

2013- Small works (Goup), Ruth Bachofner Gallery November 30, Santa Monica CA

2014- Stupor (Solo) Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2014- Ataxia (Solo...