Brendan Fernandes

Biography

Brendan Fernandes was born on December 29, 1979, in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a Canadian and Kenyan contemporary artist whose practice spans multiple disciplines including installation, video, sculpture, and dance. Fernandes’s creative research centers on issues of cultural displacement, migration, labor, queer subjectivity, and collective agency. His work integrates various art forms such as performance and choreography. In addition to his artistic practice, Fernandes teaches art theory and practice at Northwestern University. His professional activities encompass roles as an installation artist, sculptor, dancer, choreographer, and arts practitioner.