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About Brendan Fernandes
Artist Biography
Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. He has exhibited internationally, including The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China (2008) and the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY (2007). Fernandes has participated in numerous residency programs including The Canada Councils for the Arts International Residency in Trinidad and Tobago (2006), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Work Space (2008) and Swing Space (2009) programs, Emerge 10 at Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (2008), the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum (2009), The New Work Residency at Harvestwork, NY (2009), and an invitation to the Gyeonggi Creation Center at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea. He has held the position of Artist in Residence at The School of Visual Arts, NY, in the graduate program for computer arts (2008) and is the a current recipient of a New Commissions Project through Art in General, NY (2010). He is based between Toronto and New York.
His work is represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto.