Faculty

BRANDON VICKERD

BFA (NSCAD), MFA (Victoria)
Associate Professor: Sculpture/Foundry
Department of Visual Arts, York University

bvickerd@yorku.ca

Brandon Vickerd is a sculptor whose research encompasses robotics, site-specific interventions, metal fabrication, foundry processes and collaborative projects. He has exhibited his work in numerous group and solo shows. Recent solo shows include Champions of Entropy, Object #4 at the Deleon White Gallery in Toronto, ...when all our heroes turn to ghosts... at Embassy Gallery in Edinburg/UK, Northern Satellite at Odd Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, and Dance of the Cranes at Toronto's Nuit Blanche 2009. His publications include a number of exhibition catalogues, including Systems Catalogue for the Truck  Gallery.

Professor Vickerd’s work has won support from the Canada Council, the British Columbia Arts Council and Alberta Foundation for the Arts. In summer 2005 was awarded a major grant by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to create a Digital Sculpture Laboratory [see story] in the Department of Visual Arts at York. The first of its kind in Canada and one of only a handful worldwide, the laboratory will be dedicated to the study of the convergence of the digital and the physical in art through the translation of digital code into physical reality. This cutting-edge research facility will add an exciting new dimension to York’s sculpture program, opening up new possibilities for teaching, learning and creative work.

Prior to his appointment at York University , Professor Vickerd taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Victoria, and served as head research/sculptor at Heavy Industries in Calgary, Alberta, where he assisted in the creation of CC technologies and 3D scanning systems for use in fine arts production. He joined the faculty in York's Visual Arts Department in 2004.

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