BRENDAN FERNANDES

ORONTO, CANADA + NEW YORK, ÉTATS-UNIS

THE HUNTING, 2009-2011

MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION
2 PRAY STOOLS, CANDLES, PROJECTED VIDEO, VIDEO ON MONITORS, DVD PLAYER, VINYL TEXT, NEON MASKS
VARIABLE DIMENSIONS
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DIAZ CONTEMPORARY, TORONTO

Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He com- pleted 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 Council for the Arts Interna- tional 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, New York, in the grad- uate 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.

Place Québec
880, avenue Honoré-Mercier

HOURS
MAY 1 TO JUNE 13, 2010
WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: 10 A.M. TO 7 P.M.