Brendan Fernandes
Workspace 2007-2008
Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. Accolades include: grants from The Ontario and Canada Councils for the Arts including the International Residency in Trinidad and Tobago. He has exhibited across North America and has recently shown in the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Fernandes completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007). Concurrently he holds the position of Artist-in-Residence at The School of Visual Arts, NY, in the graduate program for computer arts. This spring he will participate in Emerge 10 at Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. He currently works between Toronto and New York where he continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.
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Neo-Primitivism II , 2007
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Fabricated Plastic African Masks and Deer Decoy
installation view
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Slow Kill, 2007
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video installation
video stills
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On Safari, 2005
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mixed media installation
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