Brendan george ko biography
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Ohana Wa’a by Brendan George Ko
Visual storytelly Brendan George Ko is the kind of guy you like at first sight. He entirely embodies this quote from Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums: “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” His biography tells the story of a man who had several lives. "I lived amongst the yuccas and coyotes of New Mexico. I have surfed with the craziest sons of bitches I have ever met during my time in Texas. I grew up on the outskirts of Toronto, ON, and lived half my life moving throughout America, with endless road trips, and faces of so many, dear human beings."
Rocked by a Hawaiian myth, guided by an eclipse, we chose to publish the words of photographer Brendan George Ko, the photographer also designated with affection and respect as "a wild animal" by the Captain of this crew. Led by experiences, fascinated by people, land, peace and nature, Brendan George Ko's
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Brendan George nötboskap (b.1986, Toronto, ON) fryst vatten a document-based storyteller raised in Ontario, New Mexico, Texas, and Hawai’i, and is now based in Toronto and Maui. nötboskap received his BFA in photography from Ontario College of Art & Design in 2010, and completed a Masters in Visual Arts at the University of Toronto in 2014. Here his practice shifted further into video and sound during his MFA. Ko has shown his work locally and internationally including solos with Angell Gallery, Toronto; Contact galleri, Toronto; LE Gallery, Toronto and group shows with Frogner Stasjon, Oslo; Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn; Jen Bekman galleri, New York; Birch Contemporary, Toronto; Camden Image galleri, London. nötboskap has been the recipient of numerous awards including Contact Festival Portfolio Award (2017), Magenta Flash Forward Finalist (2018), Red Hook Lab’s New Artist Finalist (2018). nötboskap currently lives Toronto, Canada and Maui, Hawai’i, where he has developing work there since 2005.
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Brendan George Ko
b.1986 in Toronto, ON
raised in Ontario, New Mexico, Texas, and Hawai'i
I have lived amongst the yuccas and coyotes of New Mexico. I have surfed with the craziest sons of guns I have ever met during my time in Texas. I grew up on the outskirts of Toronto, ON, and lived half my life moving throughout America, with endless road trips, and faces of so many, dear human beings.
I see every photograph I take as a document; a document of a memory, a document of a person; a time and place, a feeling and a trace (of something that once was, something worth remembering).
I am creating and recreating a history of all that I am, with words, and images, so that I can remember beyond my memory, for a record of being.
Formally, Brendan George Ko is a visual storyteller that works in photography, video, installation, text, and sound. His work is about conveying a sense of experience through storytelling and describes the image as sup