Brendan George Ko, Nightly Visitor, 2020

Rivalry Projects is thrilled to participate in Art Toronto 2023 featuring artwork by Brendan George Ko, Hannah Secord Wade, and David Hilliard, including painting and photography that explore narratives on northern landscapes, their ecologies, and the diverse communities that inhabit them.

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Brendan George Ko, b. 1986, received his BFA in photography from Ontario College of Art & Design in 2010, and completed a Masters in Visual Arts at the University of Toronto in 2014. Here his practice shifted further into video and sound under the guidance of Kim Tomczak. Ko has shown his work locally and internationally including solos with Angell Gallery, Toronto; Contact Gallery, Toronto; LE Gallery, Toronto and group shows with Frogner Stasjon, Oslo; Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn; Birch Contemporary, Toronto; Camden Image Gallery, London. Ko has been the recipient of numerous awards including Contact Festival Portfolio Award(2017), Magenta Flash Forward Finalist (2018), Red Hook Lab’s New Artist Finalist (2018). He is also included within several collections including TD Bank and BMO Financial Group. In addition he has been commissioned to produce work for the New York Times, New Yorker, Vogue, Bloomberg Businessweek, Patagonia, Walrus.

Hannah Secord Wade, b. 1981, received her Master of Fine Art (MA) from Chelsea College of Arts, London, and her BA Fine Art from Hampshire College, Amherst. She has been a resident at the Arteles Creative Center (Finland), Open Wabi (Ohio), and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation (New York). In 2020, her painting, Dog Fountain, was selected by Alex Katz for donation to the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art, courtesy of the Alex Katz Foundation. In 2022, the Farnsworth Art Museum acquired her painting, Underground, for inclusion in their permanent collection. Her work has been shown in London and Paris, and throughout the United States. She lives and works in Maine.

David Hilliard, b. 1964, lives and works in Boston. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and his MFA from Yale University. His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Kemper Art Museum, St Louis; Miami Art Museum; Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa; and DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. 

Hilliard was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and he was awarded the Bok Center Award for Excellence in Teaching by Harvard University in 2012. He has been a visiting lecturer at numerous schools, including Harvard University; Dartmouth College; Art Institute of Boston; and the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. His artwork resides in the permanent collections of Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum (IL), Harvard University (MA), George Eastman House, (Rochester, NY), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (CA), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), Sir Elton John, (Atlanta, GA - London, England), the deCordova Museum (MA), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Yale University Art Gallery (MA). 

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