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Email: mfernandes@nscad.ca
Michael Fernandes is a Trinidad-born artist who came to Canada in the 1960s to study at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His works often rely on polemical constructs like 鈥渦s and them鈥� to provoke a self-recognition on the part of the viewer. His installations have a sense of improvisation and literalism, which results in an intimacy and directness and opposes the packaged, the streamlined and the simulated. One could say鈥攁t least metaphorically鈥攖hat his work is in the first person, present tense, and that it stands against facade and spectacle in favour of activism.
At 色多多视频APP, where he has taught since 1973, Michael is known for the subtlety of his pedagogical methods. He has exhibited extensively across Canada and abroad. In 2020, Fernandes was the recipient of the Governor General鈥檚 Award in Visual and Media Arts.
N茅 脿 Trinidad, Michael Fernandes est venu au Canada dans les ann茅es 1960 pour 茅tudier au Mus茅e des beaux-arts de Montr茅al. Ses 艙uvres d茅pendent souvent de concepts pol茅miques comme le 芦 nous et eux 禄 pour provoquer une reconnaissance de soi de la part du spectateur. Ses installations donnent l鈥檌mpression d鈥檌mprovisation et de litt茅ralisme, ce qui entra卯ne l鈥檌ntimit茅 et la franchise plut么t que le conditionn茅, le rationalis茅 et le simul茅. On pourrait dire, du moins de fa莽on m茅taphorique, que son 艙uvre est 脿 la premi猫re personne, au temps pr茅sent, et qu鈥檈lle s鈥檕ppose 脿 la fa莽ade et au spectacle au profit de l鈥檃ctivisme.
Michael Fernandes a enseign茅 depuis 1973 au Nova Scotia College of Art. Il a grandement expos茅 ses 艙uvres au Canada et 脿 l鈥櫭﹖ranger. En 2020, Fernandes fut r茅cipiendaire du Prix du Gouverneur g茅n茅ral en arts visuels et en arts m茅diatiques.
