Provenance:

Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

Note:

Brendan Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who examines issues of cultural displacement, migration, labor, and queer subjectivity. He is invested in confronting the complexities of transitional and transnational identities, with a particular interest in incorporating elements of cultural performance into art, arising from his unique perspective as a queer Kenyan Indian Canadian. His projects take on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, part political protest—always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity and new forms of agency.

Fernandes (b.1979, Nairobi) attended York University for his Bachelors (hons.) and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Selected solo presentations include Lurie Garden at Millennium Park, Museum of Contemporary Art, and DePaul University Art Museum (Chicago); the AGO (Toronto); Chrysler Art Museum (Norfolk); The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington); and the Guggenheim Museum (New York). His projects have been featured in the Whitney Biennial and MoMa (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); and The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, among others. Recent and upcoming projects include the Munch Museum (Oslo); National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), and Mass MoCA (North Adams); and a collaboration with Danish National Radio (Copenhagen).

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