Close up of colourful ribbons hanging together.

Brandon Hoax

CAFKA.25 | Field Guide to the Understory

Brandon Hoax

@brutalistlonghouse

Image of a person with a silver nose-ring, their eyes, teeth, head, and ears are distorted into horn and fang-like points.

Tapestry hanging on a grey painted brick wall. The tapestry resembles chainlink fence – silver-grey, orange, and yellow ribbons are woven, into striped panels. Ribbons cross-over in a diamond shape. Hot pink ribbons hang from the bottom of the piece like tassels.

Fence Piece – week of June 22

O:se Kenhionhata:tie
Willow River Centre
243 King St E, Kitchener

 

Pink, green, yellow, red, and white ribbons hang together in a tent-line piece, suspended from the ceiling in a room with green walls.

Tent Piece – July 2 - August 15

Longhouse Labs
East Campus Hall (ECH)
305 Phillip St, Waterloo

Trickster child of a Stonecoat mother and Dullahan father. Brandon Hoax is a Haudenosaunee, Onyota'a:ka (Oneida), Two-Spirit artist from London Ontario, and Oneida Nation of the Thames. Residing in K'jipuktuk (Halifax). Hoax holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and has exhibited at Nocturne (2017, 2021), Everyseeker (2021), and Khyber Centre for the Arts (2019) in Halifax, NS. In 2020, Hoax was accepted into the Banff Centre for the Arts Kinship Medicines residency, and in 2021, they participated in a residency at Eyelevel artist-run centre under the mentorship of Two Spirit/Queer, Métis/Saulteaux/Polish artist Dayna Danger. Their work has been acquired by the Canada Council Art Bank, Nova Scotia Art Bank, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Their work is currently on view in Celestial Bodies at Campbell River Art Gallery.