Join artist Brendan George Ko for a tour through a few of the thousand photographs lining the walls of the Members' Gallery. you start dying the day you’re born (excerpt)presents Ko's decade-long project Scrapbooks, which documents adventures and friendships over the years.
Brendan George Ko is a visual storyteller who works in photography, video, installation, text, and sound. His work is about conveying a sense of experience through storytelling and describes the image as supplementary to the story it represents. Ko holds a BFA from Ontario College of Art & Design where he majored in photography, and in addition, he practiced sculpture and curation. During his time in the Masters in Visual Arts programme at the University of Toronto his practice shifted into video and sound with the guidance of Kim Tomczak. Ko’s work has been included in such events as The Magenta Foundation’s annual photography exhibition and publication, Flash Forward, the juried exhibition Hey! Hot Shot by Jen Bekman in New York City, and in numerous auctions such as ACT’s Snap! Live Auction, Buddies in Bad Times' Art Attack Auction, and Youthline’s Line Art Auction. Ko is a regular contributor of the New York Times and has worked for The New Yorker, Vogue, Time, Patagonia, Apple, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Flux Magazine, Hana Hou, Jacquemus, SSENSE.
