Michael Fernandes (born in 1944)[1] is a Canadian experimental artist and art educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
His work uses familiar, even banal materials to ask the viewer to confront the boundary between daily life and art.
[3][4] By 1973, Fernandes moved to Halifax to teach at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
[4] Initially a painter, Fernandes turned to installation and multimedia to create situations that actively solicit participation from the viewer.
[6] He has exhibited extensively nationally, notably at the Blackwood Gallery, Mercer Union, The Power Plant, and YYZ (Toronto, ON); C.I.A.C.