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M. Brandon Cotter 󺀠/THEM
b.1988

Is a non-binary settler and multidisciplinary visual artist 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. They work as a fine arts preparator and museum mount maker outside of their studio practice.







My practice explores the constructs of shame, gender, class, whiteness, and colonization in western society.  I work across various media including: painting, drawing, collage, bricolage, design, and poetry to examine and tease apart their structures. I take inspiration from metaphysics, spirituality, parascience, story telling and the theater. My art making process is reflexive and relational, involving myself, the work, the viewer and society. The mixing of thoughts, ideas and creative actions over long periods of time, allow for meaning to accumulate and calcify in my artwork. My intuition largely guides this process.  




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