Current & Past Events
Brown Bag Lunch with Brendan Fernandes
colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.
For this session, New York and Toronto-based artist Brendan Fernandes speaks about his recent work, which deals with notions of identity through post colonial discourse.
The lunch will begin at 12:30 and end at around 2 pm.
- host:
- Brendan Fernandes
- date & time:
- February 8th, 2008 at 12 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the
1990s. He earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario and his
BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. Accolades include: grants from The
Ontario and Canada Councils for the Arts including the International Residency
in Trinidad and Tobago. He has exhibited across Canada and has recently shown
in the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in
Buffalo, NY. Fernandes completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney
Museum of American Art (2007), and is presently participating in The Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council’s Work Space Residency program. Concurrently he
holds the position of Artist in Residence at The School of Visual Arts, NY, in
the graduate program for computer arts. He currently works between Toronto and
New York where he continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.
Event Images & Documentation
Image courtesy of Brian Fernandes