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M. Brandon Cotter (THEY/THEM)
b.1988
Is a
non-binary settler living and working in so-called Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Brandon holds a BDes in communication design from Emily Carr University (2010). They co-founded the gallery FIELD Contemporary in Vancouver, BC (2014-2019); alongside Daniel Jefferies and Avalon Mott.
I am a multidisciplinary artist working across painting and collage as well as drawing, writing, bricolage, and installation. My art practice is a way of sorting through disquieting ideas: shame, whiteness, masculinity, colonialism, class.
I take inspiration from metaphysics, spirituality, parascience,
mysticism, semiotics, pre-computer design, story telling and the theater.