Brendan Tang

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

Brendan Tang is an artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. Selected solo and two person exhibitions include Reluctant Offerings at Nanaimo Art Gallery (2021); Memories & Fetishes at Gallery Jones in Vancouver (2019); Surface Handling with Diyan Achjadi at Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina (2018); his work was presented alongside Sonny Assu in a touring show called Ready Player Two, that was exhibited at several galleries across Western Canada including Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary (2020), Touchstones Gallery in Abbotsford (2020), Yukon Art Centre in Whitehorse (2020), and The Reach in Abbotsford (2017); Souvenirs from Earth at Gallery Jones in Vancouver (2016) and Sheppard Contemporary Gallery in Reno, NV (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Playing with Fire at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver (2019); Flow at Surrey Art Gallery (2018); 60th Annual Faenza Prize: Museo Internazionale dell Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy (2018); Fait Main/ Hand Made at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Québec City (2018); the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in Japan, New York, and Madrid (2017), and many more. Tang received an MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Brendan Tang is represented by Gallery Jones. In 2018, Tang was an artist-in-residency at BAF where he developed a series of sculptures created out of geometric pieces of black foam core and strips of word that evoked scaffolding, metro maps, cell networks, rhizomes, skeletal systems, and structural formulae for complex molecules.