ONLINE PRESS
thINKing DANCE, “Noise See: Weaving Masking, Memory, and Maasai Legacy”
Whitehot Magazine, “Build Up the House II by Brendan Fernandes”
The New York Times, “Scott Burton’s Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer”
Observer, “How Artist Brendan Fernandes Is Decolonizing Architecture Without Tearing It Down”
Chicago Magazine, “Artists in their Natural Habitats”
Ladue News, “Brendan Fernandes’ upcoming exhibition breathes new life into Scott Burton’s legacy”
Chicago Tribune, “Photos: The New Monuments art exhibit, part of Expo Chicago”
Cultbytes, “The Significance of Domestic Labor”
The New York Times, “Blending Dance and Sculpture Creates a Fresh View of Art”
Philadelphia Gay News, “Queer Artist Transforms the Barnes Foundation into a ‘Spiritual Ground’”
NUVO, “The Many Identities of Brendan Fernandes”
Forbes, “Walker Hotel Greenwich Village Addresses Post-Pandemic Healing with Touch”
Art21, “How Do We Come Together Again?”
NBC News, “6 queer artists to watch at Art Basel in Miami Beach”
Frieze, “Finding a Penfriend in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts”
Design Miami, “In Collaboration: A Letter to Noguchi”
Montecristo Magazine, “Watch a Clip From This Riveting Two Channel…”
GQ India, “Brendan Fernandes’ Very Big Year”
Canadian Art, “Brendan Fernandes’ Zoom Choreography”
CBC Radio, Studio Q with Tom Power: Brendan Fernandes
Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO Insider, “Going Left”
The New York Times Magazine, “Seeing Black Futures”
SoHo House, “Artist Brendan Fernandes on ballet and BDSM”
Frieze, “Dance During the Pandemic — A Roundtable Discussion”
LA Dance Chronicle, “Free Fall, for the Camera — A Film by Brendan Fernandes”
Forbes, “Re-Imaging Art In The Pandemic - The Aga Khan Museum Provides Sanctuary Virtually”
New City Art, “Art 50 2020 — Chicago’s Artists’ Artists”
Flash Art, “Brendan Fernandes: WE AS ONE”
ArtNews, “Equity and Inclusion for All? Curator Anuradah Vikram Chronicles Her Path…”
ArtNews, “Free Money: Artadia’s Unrestricted Grants Are All About Believing in Artists”
Sculpture, “Brendan Fernandes”
Flaunt, “Monique Meloche Gallery, Restrain”
Art in America, “Brendan Fernandes’ New Performance Brings Isamu Noguchi’s Sculptures to Life”
Document, “Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’”
CBC, “Brendan Fernandes uses lithography and dance to mourn those who fell…”
Brooklyn Rail, “Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release”
Dance Informa, “Brendan Fernandes’ ‘Contract and Release’ premieres at the Noguchi Museum”
NEW YORK TIMES, “The Impressario of ‘Ballet Kink’”
Art Agency News, “Pushing Boundaries: Ten Emerging LGBTQ+ Artists of Note”
Artspace, “An Interview with Brendan Fernandes, the Whitney Biennial Artist who uses Ballet…”
NEW YORK TIMES, “The Whitney Biennial”
Whitewall, “Brendan Fernandes Talks ‘Ballet Kink’ at The Guggenheim and Beyond”
Vivek Menezes, “The in-between world of the African Goans”
Western University News, “Whitney Biennial provides another stage for alumnus”
Vogue, “Ballet and Bondage Came Together in a Performance at the Guggenheim…”
Whitewall, "Our New Common Ground: The Uncommon Art Residency Program"
Surface Tensions, “Brendan Fernandes on surface, aesthetics, art, race and play”
Esse, “Labour – Brendan Fernandes”
L’Officiel Art, “Nuit Blanche Returns to Toronto For One Night Only”
INTO, “This Artist Is Throwing a Dance Party Around Police Cars to Raise Awareness of Violence”
Northwestern News, “Brendan Fernandes Wants To Make You Uncomfortable”
Chicago Tribune, “Artist and Choreographer Brendan Fernandes...Makes Chicago His Home”
LVL3, “Artist of the Week: Brendan Fernandes”
The High Line, “Open Encounter: A Conversation with Brendan Fernandes”
Newcity Stage, “Of Ballet and Bondage: a review of Brendan Fernandes's The Master and Form…”
ASAP Review, “Clean Labour by Brendan Fernandes”
Flash Art, “The Master and Form”
Garage Magazine, “Brendan Fernandes's Sculptures Explore the Masochism of Ballet”
artnet, “What is Your All Time Fantasy Exhibition? We asked 14 Art-World Heavyweights”
Forbes, “Artist Brendan Fernandes Looks At The Pain And Pleasure Of Ballet in The Master and Form”
PIN-UP Magazine, “The Master and Form; Brendan Fernandes Exploration of Space, People and Power”
Newcity Design, “Pain, Pleasure and Desire: ‘The Master and Form’ at the Graham Foundation”
The Architects Newspaper, “Endurance Art that Explores ‘Mastery’ in Architecture and Ballet”
Sleek Magazine, “Why the Art World is Obsessed with Dance"
Artforum, “Brendan Fernandes talks about his performance at Recess in New York”
Frieze Magazine, “Dancing to the Pulse”
VISIT Curatorial Art Magazine, “Acting Out: Pointing in the Museum”
Canadian Art Magazine, “The Floor Hits Back: Talking Dance with Brendan Fernandes”
Canadian Art Magazine, “Nature of Culture”
Canadian Art Magazine, “Found in Translation: Missing Links”
Canadian Art Magazine, “Brendan Fernandes Balances Politics and Optimism”
KAPSULA, “Break it down: Sighting/Citing/Siting Performance Art”
Seattle Times, “Grand Illusion: Seattle Art Museum show pairs African masks, contemporary art”
BOMB Magazine, “Artists in Conversation: Brendan Fernandes”
Art in America, “Elocution Lessons: Q+A With Brendan Fernandes”
Art in America, “Nanna Debois Buhl and Brendan Fernandes”
Art in America, “The Aesthetic of W.E.B. Du Bois”
Art in America, “‘Crossing Brooklyn’ Highlights Borough's Artists, from Bushwick to Bay Ridge”
Huffington Post, “Global African Artists Explore The Meaning of Disguise In The 21st Century”
Fuse Magazine, “Undoing Identities: Brendan Fernandes' Haraka Haraka”
Artforum Online, “Found in Translation”
Deutsche Bank Art Mag, “Broken English: An Interview with Brendan Fernandes”
Toronto Star, “Art World Likes Where He's Coming From”
National Post, “Questions & Artists: Getting Behind Africa's Moving Masks”
Press IN PRINT
Heidi Mitchell & Stephen Ostrowski. “Innovators and Influencers” Michigan Avenue Magazine.
Djassi Dacosta Johnson, "Brendan Fernandes (Interview)" Kinfolk, Volume 28.
Gabrielle Welsh, "Brendan Fernandes: The Master and Form // Graham Foundation." The Seen, Issue 06.
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jessica Silverman Gallery: Crowd Crush
Studio Museum Harlem: Studio Visit: Brendan Fernandes
Ian Bourland, Exile on Canal Street: Brendan Fernandes.
Art Papers: Brendan Fernandes at Momenta Arts, Brooklyn
Border Crossings: Brendan Fernandes at Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
C Magazine International: Brendan Fernandes: Until We Fearless
Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine: Found in Translation
NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, #31, Fall 2012: “Breaking the Codex”
fukt Magazine: Elisabeth Brye invite Brendan Fernandes
The Dance Current: New Day Rising: Brendan Fernandes Returns to Dance
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Brendan is currently represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Contact: brendan@brendanfernandes.ca