 Brannon studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with a BA in 1995.He received his MFA in 1999 from Columbia University in New York.His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and MAK in Vienna.