Brittany Fanning (b.1991 Jacksonville, Florida), is a Los Angeles-based, figurative painter with a rapidly growing following amongst collectors and curators in the international art world. Her vibrant, variously dreamlike and playful scenes are informed by some of the luxurious architectural spaces, curated gardens and leisure pursuits native to L.A. and Florida. Inhabited by a solitary and anonymous female figure who might be a stand-in for, simultaneously, the artist and the viewer, the spaces are Fanning’s conjurings of imagined places of comfort and solitude, refuges from a world of seemingly constant crisis. In some pieces, the cameo and dead-pan appearance of wild animals such as wolves, mountain lions, and lizards, symbolize the threats that may lie in wait in the world-at-large. Beautifully and densely painted and wryly humorous and knowing, Fanning’s are personal negotiations with the complex and often intractable demands and questions posed by contemporary life.
Fanning earned a BA at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega (2014), spent seven years developing her painting practice in Seoul, before moving to Los Angeles in April 2022. She began exhibiting in Korea in 2018 and has had recent solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon, Miami (2025), Heliconia Projects x Portray Magazine, Miami (2024), Heliconia Projects, Casa de Campo (2024), Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2024); The Lodge, Los Angeles (2023); OTI, Los Angeles (2023) and Galerie BHAK, Seoul (2022). Recent group shows include: Hotel Warszawa Fair with Heliconia Projects (2024), San Francisco Art Fair with Good Mother, San Francisco (2024), Glass Rice, LA (2024), Alabaster Projects, LA (2024).