Brendan Fernandes

Brendan Fernandes, born in Nairobi, Kenya 1979. Currently based in Chicago, his practice addresses issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest, andother forms of collective movement. Constantly seeking to create new spaces and forms of agency, Fernandes’work often takes on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, part political protest always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity.

Fernandes is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2007) and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Robert Rauschenberg Residency Fellowship (2014), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2020), an Artadia Award(2019), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2019), and most recently, the PlatformAward (2024). In 2024, he was also honored with the Creative Voice Award by Arts Alliance Illinois. His work has been presented at prestigious venues such as the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum ofContemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; theNational Gallery of Canada,Ottawa; and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, MAC;among many others.
Fernandes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art,Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. He is represented by Monique MelocheGallery in Chicago and Susan Inglett Gallery in New York. Recent and upcoming projectsinclude performances and solo presentations at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis,MO; the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO; the Fabric Workshop andMuseum, Philadelphia, PA; and Prospect.6, New Orleans, LA. In spring 2026, a major newcommission and solo exhibition will debut at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago.
 
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Jamie Martinez in front of “Neo Kingdom” which was a collaboration with artist Erin Ko and part of Speculative Cultures. A Virtual Reality Exhibition (2019), curated by Tina Sauerlaender, Peggy Schoenegge, and Erandy Vergara. Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery,...

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Lavett Ballard

Lavett Ballard is an Artist, Art historian, Curator, and Author. I hold a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University, and a MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ballard’s art has...

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George David Clark 

The author reading Reveille at Union University George David Clark was born in Savannah and raised in Chattanooga and Little Rock. He now lives in Washington, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four young children. This is a second interview with George, the first...

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Naz Cuguoğlu

Naz Cuguoğlu is a curator and art writer, based in San Francisco Bay Area and Istanbul. She is the co-founder of “Collective Çukurcuma,” experimenting with collaborative thinking processes through its reading group meetings and international collaborative exhibitions....

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Rafael Perez Evans

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Jeremiah Ariaz

Jeremiah Ariaz Jeremiah Ariaz artworks explore the West as both a physical space and a terrain for the imagination. For his most recently completed project, Louisiana Trail Riders he was the recipient of a 2018 ATLAS grant, the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary...

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Rosa Lleó

Rosa Lleó (Barcelona, ​​1980) is a curator and director, since April 2014, of the small-scale organization The Green Parrot in Barcelona, Spain. Since its opening, it has established itself as a reference space in the city with a collection of exhibitions,...

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Mary Dinaburg

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Patricia Thornley

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Patricia Thornley is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (BFA in Sculpture), the Whitney Independent Study Program (Studio), and Bard College (MFA in...

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Andrea Wright

Andrea V. Wright is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Bath, UK. She graduated with a BA from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 1994 and embarked on a career in fashion, styling and music working with magazines such as The Face, Arena and Italian...

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