CONTACT
brendan@brendanfernandes.ca 

CV

EDUCATION

2006 - 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY
2003 - 2005: The University of Western Ontario, Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, London, ON
1998 - 2002: York University, Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Toronto, ON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 TBD, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, North Bennington, VT 2025 Calling Community. Public Art Commission for the Town of Newmarket. Newmarket, ON.

2024 TBD, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
2024 TBD, Art On The Mart, Chicago, IL
2024 In Spaces, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, India
2024 in/visible - u/synlig, The Glass House, New Canaan, CT
2024 New Monuments | Chicago, Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2023 Within Reach. Susan Inglett Gallery. New York, NY.
2023 Returning to Before. The Barnes Foundation. Philadelphia, PA 2023 The Light Will Call. Mexico Design Art Fair. Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. 2023 The Left Space. Nuit Blanche - Foundation PHIHard Return. Montreal, QB. 2023 The Calls. The DR Vocal Ensemble. Copenhagen, Denmark. 2023 Stand Taller II. Kasmin Gallery. New York, NY.

2022 in/visible - u/synlig, Munch Art Museum, Oslo, Norway
2022 This Act, The Chrysler Museum of Art. Norfolk, VA
2022 The Left Space, The Richmond Art Gallery. Richmond, BC
2022 Together We Are - Public Mural, University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Buffalo, NY

2021 In Action. The Richmond Art Gallery. Richmond, BC.
2021 Together We Are, The Walker Hotel Greenwich Village. New York, NY
2021 Contract and Release, Art Basel - Meridians, Miami, FL
2021 A Solo Until We Can Dance Again. Hellenic Parliament + NEON. Athens, Greece.
2021 72 Seasons. Lurie Garden + Millennium Park, Chicago, IL

2020 Art By Snapchat. Azienda Speciale Palaexpo. Rome, Italy.
2020 Brendan Fernandes: Bodily Forms. The Chrysler Museum of Art. Norfolk, VA.
2020 We Want a We. Pearlstein Galleries, Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA.
2020 In Action. Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.

2019 Restrain. Monique Meloche Gallery. Chicago, IL.
2019 Contract and Release. The Noguchi Museum. New York, NY.
2019 Call and Response. The Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL.
2019 The 2019 Whitney Biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, NY.
2019 In Action. Zilkha Galleries, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT.
2019 Free Fall. The Richmond Art Gallery. Richmond, BC.
2019 Free Fall 49. The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC.
2019 Ballet Kink. The Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY.

2018 The Living Mask, DePaul Art Museum. Chicago, IL
2018 On Flashing Lights, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2018 Open Encounter, The Highline, NY, NY
2018 Moving Change, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2018 Master and Form, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018 Safely, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2017 Steady Pulse, Recess, NY, NY
2017 Free Fall 49, The Getty, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Move in Place, Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University, Halifax, NS
2017 Clean Labor, Armory Fair, NY, NY (Curated by Eric Shiner)
2017 I’m Down, 18th Street Art Center, St, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Free Fall Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Lost Bodies, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Traveling to Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON, 2017
2015 We As One, Mixed Greens, NY, NY (Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah)
2015 In Position, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON
2015 Still Move, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2015 Recent Acquisitions Spotlight: Brendan Fernandes, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Yarmouth, Halifax, NS
2015 The Footmade, KW|AG, Kitchner, ON
2015 Seeing I, Freedman Gallery, Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, PA (Erin Riley-Lopez)
2014 They, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
2014 The Inverted Pyramid, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
2013 Night Shift, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON (curated by Crystal Mowry and Ivan Jurakic)
2012 The Devil’s Noise, Gallery Seven Art Limited, Delhi, India
2011 Encomium, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2011 Disscontinent, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (curated by Jordan Strom)
2011 Speaking Tongues, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
2011 Buli, The Print Studio, Hamilton, ON (curated by Sally Frater)
2011 On Becoming, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB (curated by Jenny Western)
2011 Dada Africa, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON (curated by Olexander Wlasenko )
2010 From Hiz Hands, Art in General, NY, NY (curated by Andria Hickey)
2010 Until We Fearless, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (curated by Melissa Bennett)
2010 Haraka Haraka, MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels), QC
2009 Relay League, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON
2009 Pray For Us, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2009 Mutual Surrender, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB
2008 Future (… - - - …) Perfect, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON (curated by Haema Sivanesan)
2008 New Work, Momenta Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2008 For My Culture, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2007 Matter of Fact, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo ON
2007 Project Row House, Houston TX
2007 Decoy, Artspace, Peterborough ON
2007 Wish You Were Here, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax NS
2006 Handle With Care, Centre Des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal QC
2005 Poser, Forest City Gallery - Window Space, London ON
2005 Unsettle, Eldon House, Museum London, London ON
2005 On Safari, Macintosh Gallery, London ON
2003 Darning, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto ON

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2025 Out!: LGBTQ+ Artist Activists in Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

2024 Prospect 6, New Orleans, LA
2024 What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago, South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
2024 Softcover, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Movements Toward Freedom, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2024 Other Arrangements: Poetics of the Performance Score, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK
2024 The Body the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin University, Oberlin, OH
2024 FAINT/HIDDEN/SHROUDED: Contemplating Obscurity, Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA

2023 Invisible Hands at Penn State University, The Border Gallery, State College, PA
2023 Life Cycle, The DePaul Art Museum. Chicago, IL
2023 Invisible Hands, 601 Artspace, NY, New York
2023 Dance Party, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2023 Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, Whitney ISP, Artist Space, NY, New York
2023 EXCHANGE, Water Street Projects, NY, New York
2023 Terms of Use, Foundation PHIHard Return, Montreal, QB
2023 Shades of Daphne, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Hard Return, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY

2022 Expressive Works from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, ON 2022 Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON 2022 Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 2022 Choreopolitics (two person show) . MASS MoCA. North Adams, MA 2022 The Rite of Spring...Break, Evans School, Denver, CO 2022 Pop Stars, 21c Museum Hotel, Chicago, IL 2022 All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy. Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University. Ogden, Utah.

2021 Portals. Neon, Athenes, Greece.
2021 All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy. Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Omaha, NE.

2020 The Long Dream. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL.
2020 Historias Da Danca [Histories of Dance]. Museu de Arte de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil.
2020 Sanctuary. Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON.
2020 RythmScape. Ottawa Art Gallery | Galerie d’art d’Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
2020 Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance. Walter Phillips Art Gallery. Banff, AB.
2020 Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada

2019 Sanctuary, Asia Society Museum, NY, NY
2019 Sanctuary, Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
2019 Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance Owens Art Gallery | Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
2019 From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney Independent Study Program, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston MA
2019 Water Event” which Yoko Ono, DHC/ART Fondation Pour L’art Contemporain, Montreal, QB
2018 As Far As the Heart Can See. Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space. NY, NY
2018 Other Walks, Other Lines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2018 Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 Thunderstruck: A Physical Landscape, jagemô Gallery, Ottawa ON 2018 Babble, Gallery - City Art Building, Baltimore, ML
2018 “In this place where the guest rests” Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2017 50th Anniversary Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2017 Sanctuary, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2017 Traduttore, Traditore, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL
2017 A New Region of the World, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland 2017 Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 That I am Reading Backwards and into for a Purpose, to go on, Whitney ISP Curatorial Show, The Kitchen, NY, NY
2017 Language of Objects, University at Buffalo Anderson Art Galleries, Buffalo NY
2017 Dominant Form: Gestures in Recent Photography and Video, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2017 Affection of Otherness; Works by 3 Canadian Artists who undertook residency in Korea, Korean Cultural Centre Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2017 Lesson 0, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul,Korea
2016 Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA (Curated by Hank Willis Thomas)
2016 Retrograde, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Curated by Yesomi Umolu)
2016 Ties / Tongues, Grizzly, Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA (Curated by Cindy Stockon Moore)
2016 Enacting Stillness: an Exhibition in Nine Parts, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic (Curated by Sara Reisman)
2016 Bucharest Biennial 7, Bucharest, Romania (Curated by Niels Van Tomme)
2016 Bend and Hold, Kaplan Gallery, Rockville, MD (Curated by Jackie Milad)
2016 Land Mark, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2016 Whisper or Shout, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Exercices de Lecture / Reading Exercises, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QB (Curated by Katrie Chagnon)
2015 Between Body and History, 8th Floor Gallery, Rubin Foundation, NY, NY, (Curated by Sara Reisman)
2015 Pop Up Shop, Centre 3 (Barton Street), Hamilton, ON (Curated by Rita Komacho)
2015 Disguise, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Curated by Pam McClusky and Erika Dalya Massaquoi) Traveled to: Brooklyn Museum, BK; and Fowler Museum of Cultural History, LA
2015 Looking Back at You: Masks by Artists , Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PE (Pan Wendt)
2015 You Speak / I Dance, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Nam-In Kim)
2015 No Such Place: Contemporary African Artists in America, Nahem Gallery , NY (Curated by Dexter Wimberly and Larry Ossei-Mensah)
2015 40 Years/40 Artists University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA (curated by Loretta Yarlow)
2015 Biding Time: The Collection Strikes Back, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON
2015 TEMPERAMENTAL, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Curated by Erin Silver)
2015 Performing Blackness, The Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, PA
2014 In Other Words (collaboration with Nanna Debois Buhl), MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2014 Speculations. Risquer l’interprétation, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montreal, QC (Curated Mélanie Rainville)
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Nocturne, Halifax, NS (Curated by Eryn Foster)
2014 What is, Isn’t, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL (Curated by Megan Green and Anne Huntington)
2014 What is this Heart, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, (Performace collaboration with How to Dress Well and Simon Portigal)
2014 Restless Precinct, The Guild in Scarborough, ON (curated by SUM°)
2014 Art for a Century: 100 for the 100th, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2014 Stage It! (Part 3) – SCRIPTED, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2014 HARD TIMES: Selected Works by Three Years of FIAR, Leslie Lohman Museum, NY
2014 Still Acts, La MaMa Galleria, NY (curated by Sara Reisman and Ian Daniel)
2014 In Practice: Chance Motives, Sculpture Center, Long Island City. NY
2013 Queer Objectivity!, The Stamp Gallery, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD (curated by Kris Grey)
2013 Pack Move, Hamilton Artists' Inc, Hamilton, ON (curated by Brad Isaacs)
2013 Du Bois in Our Time, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA (curated by Loretta Yarlow)
2013 R + G + B ? W", Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON (curated by Johnson Ngo)
2013 Ghar Ghar Ki Baat / Tales from Two Homes, Margaret Lawrence Gallery: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Vikki Mcinnes and Heidi Fichtner )
2013 New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2013 Land marks, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON (curated by Andrea Fatona) Traveled to: Art Gallery of Windsor, 2014, Art Gallery of Peterboroug.
2013 Stock Pile, Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON (curated by Denise Markonish)
2013 We Are What We Hide, ICA Maine College of Art, Portland, MA (curated by Daniel Fuller)
2013 Road Sins, Centre 3, Hamilton, ON (curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer)
2013 Empire, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Natika Soward)
2013 The Art Bank in the 21st Century, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
2013 The Artist Poster Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2012, Builders, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2012 Oh Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (curated by Denise Markonish) Traveled to: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 2012, Esker Foundation, 2015.
2012 (Da Bao)(Takeout), Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON (curated by Shannon Anderson + Doug Lewis) Traveled to: Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2012, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013, Surrey Art Gallery, 2014
2011 DisFluency, Aronson Galleries, Parsons The New School for Design, NY, NY
2011 Brendan Fernandes: New Video Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON (curated by Melissa Bennett)
2011 No Sense of Place, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (curated by Elisabeth Byre)
2011 Never Odd or Even, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany (curated by Solvej Ovesen)
2011 Telefone Sem Fio: The Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY, NY (curated by Michelle Levy)
2011 Barroco Nova, Macintosh Gallery, London, ON (curated by Susan Edelstein / Patrick Mahon)
2011 Location/Dislocation, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, ON (curated by Denise Ryner in collaboration with Barbara Fischer)
2011 The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, DE
(curated by Peter Weibel, Andrea Buddensieg, Jacob Birken, Antonia Marten)
2011 Sense and Sensibility, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburger, Austria (curated by Hemma Schmutz)
2011 Buli, Harvest Work / Govenor’s Island, New York, NY
2011 Every Line / Every Other Line, Platform: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
(curated by J.J. McFadden)
2011 Are you a Hybrid?, Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY (curated by Stephen Burks)
2011 In Other Words ( collaboration with Nanna Debois Buhl), Karen Blixen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD (curated by Niels Van Tomme) Traveled to: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, NY, 2012, Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, 2013, Varlmlands Museum in Karlstad, Sweden, 2015, Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, 2016
2011 Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY (curated by Nat Trotman) Traveled to Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, in 2012
2011 NY / Prague 6, The Czech Center New York, NY (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
2011 Serious Play, Space Studio, London, UK (curated by Pamela Edmonds)
2011 Towards Middle Ground at Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway (curated by Aileen Burns / Johan Lund)
2010 Sobey Art Award, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
2010 NY / Prague 6, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
2010 The Traveling Show, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (curated by Johan Lund)
2010 Wordless, The Elizabeth Foundation, NY, NY (curated by Felicity Hogan)
2010 Field Work, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC (curated by Shaun Dacey)
2010 Manif D’Art, The Quebec City Biennial, Quebec City, QC (curated by Sylvie Fortin)
2010 Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
2010 The Arbitrariness of Signs, Momenta Arts, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Sara Reisman)
2010 Bunny Redux: Contemporary Artists Rethink the Iconic Playboy Bunny, The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburg, PA (curated by Eric Shiner)
2010 Alternorthern, The Lab, San Francisco, CA (curated by Kevin Bertram and Jason Gowans)
2010 Accented, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Murtaza Vali)
2009 Invisible Homes, SOMArts Center, San Francisco, CA (curated by Justin Hoover)
2009 Mobile Archive, Art in General, NY, NY
2009 DIASPORArt, Ambassadors Room, Rideau Hall, Ottawa, ON
2009 Air Conditioned Jungle, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON (curated by Gregory Elgstrand)
2009 Everywhere, Nowhere, Somewhere, Power House, Memphis, TN
2009 One Size Fits All, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2009 Fallow, Flux Factory - Anonymous Gallery, NY, NY (curated by Bridget Stixrood)
2009 Emerge 10, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (curated by Sara Reisman)
2009 Living and Dreaming, AIM Program, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (curated by Micaela Giovannotti)
2009 South-South: Interruptions and Encounters, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, ON (curated by Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske)
2009 Shifting Shapes—Unstable Signs, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (curated by Jaret Vadera and Robert Storr)
2009 Longitude/Latitude, Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center, New York, NY (curated by Nico Wheadon)
2008 Freeze Frame, Miami Art Week, Miami FL / Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, ZA (curated by Nico Wheadon)
2008 The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2008 The Gatekeeper, Horland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway / Momenta Arts, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Eric Hiest)
2008 Red Badge of Courage Revisited, Newark Art Council, Newark, NJ (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
2008 Near Sighted, Far Out, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY (curated by Nicole Caruth)
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON (curated by Camilla Singh)
2008 Dyed roots: the new emergence of culture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON (curated by Camilla Singh)
2008 LOLA Festival, London, ON (curated by Paul Walde)
2008 Intransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
2007 Deer Art: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Big Stories, Little India, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2007 Arthaus, White Box Gallery and Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2007 On Migration, ASpace Gallery, Toronto, ON (two person show with Mona Kamal)
2007 Simulasian (Asian Contemporary Art Fair), New York, NY (curated by Eric Shiner)
2007 Beyond/In Western New York Biennial, Albright Knox and the U of B Anderson Art Galleries Buffalo NY
2007 Big Stories, Little India (Gerrard Street East project), SAVAC and [murmur], Toronto ON
2007 Whitney I.S.P. Group Show, Artists Space, NY
2007 Foire comme si tout allait bien!, Centre Des Arts Actuels Skol, Montreal QC
2007 Unpaked and Reheated, Artspace, Victoria, BC (two person show with Steve Rayner)
2006 The Life and Death of I.D, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON (curated by Sally Frater)
2006 Big, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON (curated by Patrick Mahon)
2005 The Joke, UWO Faculty Exhibition, Art Lab, London ON
2005 Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, Toronto ON
2005 The Knot Show, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto ON
2005 Artwallah, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2005 The Assosiation, Art Lab, London ON
2004 included in the present classification, Art Lab, London ON
2004 Exposé 67, Forest City Gallery, London ON
2004 Unusual Suspects, Gallery One, Toronto ON
2003 Mend, The Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON
2003 Den, Gallery 61, Toronto ON
2002 Den, The Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON
2002 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto ON

AWARDS

2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, DC.
2020 Fleck Fellowship, Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY.
2019 Artadia, Chicago Awardee, New York, NY.
2019 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Nomination, Washington, DC.
2019 Sobey Art Award, Long List. Ottawa, ON.
2018 Chicago Finalist - Artadia, NY, NY
2017 Queer|Art|Prize - Nomination, NY, NY
2017 USArtist Nomination, Chicago, IL
2016 Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Best Show: Innovation in Collection-Based Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2015 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nomination, NY, NY
2015 Sobey Art Award, Longlist
2013 Sobey Art Award, Longlist
2010 Sobey Art Award, Ontario Finalist
2009 New Commissions, Art in General, NY, NY
2007 Artist of the Year, South Asian Visual Arts Collective, Toronto ON

GRANTS

2020 Canada Council for the Arts, Residency Creation Grant. Ottawa, ON
2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington DC.
2019 Canada Coulin for the Arts, Research Creation Grant, Ottawa ON
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON
2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, NY, NY
2017 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2017 Canada Council for the Arts, New Chapter, Ottawa ON
2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, Ottawa, ON
2015 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Mid-career Grant, Toronto, ON
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, Ottawa, ON
2014 Canada Council for the Art, Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grants, Ottawa, ON
2014 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2013 Canada Council for the Art, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON
2013 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Mid-career Grant, Toronto, ON
2012 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
2012 Canada Council for the Art, Assistance to Visual Artists: Long-Term Grants, Ottawa ON
2012 Canada Council for the Art, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2011 Canada Council for the Art, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON
2011 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Emerging Grant, Toronto, ON
2010 Canada Council for the Art, Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grants, Ottawa, ON
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2009 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Emerging Grant, Toronto, ON
2009 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2009 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2008 Canada Council for the Art, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON
2008 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2007 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2006 Canada Council for the Art, Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grants, Ottawa, ON
2006 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Emerging Grant, Toronto, ON
2006 Ontario Arts Council Access Career Development Grant, Toronto, ON
2006 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2006 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2005 Canada Council for the Art, International Residencies Program in Visual Arts, Ottawa ON
2005 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, ON
2005 Canada Council for the Art, Travel Grant, Ottawa ON

RESIDENCIES

2020 UC Berkley Institute of South Asian Studies Artist Residency, Berkley, California
2020 Fleck Fellow Residency, Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
2020 Historias Da Danca [Histories of Dance]. Museu de Arte de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil.
2019 Odette Sculpture Residency, York University, Toronto, ON
2017 Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
2017 Session Artist at Recess, NY, NY
2016 Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2016 Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA.
2016 Dance Studies and Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2015 The Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, PA
2014 Critical Practices Inc., New York, NY
2014 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, New York, NY
2014 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, FL
2014 Field House Residency, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013 Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON
2013 Margaret Lawrence Gallery: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Western Front Society, Vancouver, BC
2012 Centre3 for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON
2012 Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove, NY
2011 ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 NY / Prague Six, Chateau Trebešice, Cáslav, Czech Republic
2010 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2010 DIVA Artist Residency, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
2009 New Work Residency, Harvestworks, New York, NY
2009 AIM, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency, New York, NY
2008 Emerge 10, Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2007 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Work Space Residency, New York, NY
2006 Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2019 The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC
2018 DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2016 Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC
2015 Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
2013 University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013 Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2013 The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, ON
2012 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
2011 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2010 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2010 Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON
2009 Mobile Archive, The Israeli Center for Digital Art
2009 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
2009 Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, ON
2008 Momenta Art (Video Library), Brooklyn, NY
2008 The University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY


Brendan is currently represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Contact: brendan@brendanfernandes.ca