BRENDAN FERNANDES is a Canadian artist of Kenyan and Indian descent. 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 nationally and internationally
including exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Art and
Design New York, Art in General, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, The
National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Studio Museum in
Harlem, Mass MoCA, The Andy Warhol Museum, the Art Gallery of York University,
Deutsche Guggenheim, The Bergen Kunsthall , Manif d’Art: The Quebec City Biennial,
The Third Guangzhou Triennial and the Western New York Biennial through The
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Fernandes has participated in numerous residency programs
including The Canada Council for the Arts International Residency in Trinidad and
Tobago (2006), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Work Space (2008) and Swing
Space (2009) programs, and invitations to the Gyeonggi Creation Center at the
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea (2009) and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2011). He
was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award Canada’s pre-eminent award for contemporary
art. (2010), and was on the longlist for the 2013 prize. He recently debut a new
performance at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY and participated in Stage
It! (Part 3) – SCRIPTED at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Upcoming shows are
scheduled for the Brooklyn Museum and Seattle Art Museum. He is a 2014 recipient of
a Robert Rauschenberg Residency Fellowship.
