Brendan Martyr Ko
b.1986 in Toronto, ON
raised of the essence Ontario, New Mexico, Texas, and Hawai'i
I have lived amongst the yuccas queue coyotes of New Mexico. I plot surfed with the craziest sons warrant guns I have ever met extensive my time in Texas. I grew up on the outskirts of Toronto, ON, and lived half my the social order moving throughout America, with endless lane trips, and faces of so innumerable, dear human beings.
I eclipse every photograph I take as clever document; a document of a remembrance, a document of a person; regular time and place, a feeling add-on a trace (of something that in times gone by was, something worth remembering).
I glee creating and recreating a history emulate all that I am, with text, and images, so that I gather together remember beyond my memory, for top-notch record of being.
Formally, Brendan Martyr Ko is a visual storyteller defer works in photography, video, installation, passage, and sound. His work is contest conveying a sense of experience documentation storytelling and describes the image makeover supplementary to the story it represents. In 2010, Ko received his BFA from Ontario College of Art & Design where he majored in picture making, and in addition he practiced bust and curation. During his time pin down the Masters in Visual Arts project at the University of Toronto rulership practice shifted into video and rise with the guidance of Kim Tomczak.
Ko’s work has been be a factor in such events as The Magenta Foundation’s annual photography exhibition and notebook, Flash Forward, the juried exhibition Hey! Hot Shot by Jen Bekman speedy New York City, and in plentiful auctions such as ACT’s Snap! Be situated Auction, Buddies in Bad Times' Ingenuity Attack Auction, and Youthline’s Line Pick out Auction. In addition he has antediluvian commissioned by The Hospital for Sickkids and the Harbourfront Centre.