Roland Brener

Roland Brener
Born	February 22, 1942 Johannesburg, South Africa
Died	March 22, 2006 Victoria, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	St. Martin's School of Art
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	abstract art, modernism, postmodernism
Spouse(s)	Dama Hanks-Brener

Roland Brener (February 22, 1942 – March 22, 2006) was a South African-born Canadian artist.

Brener was born Roland Albert Brener in February 22, 1942 in Johannesburg. He studied art at Saint Martin's School of Art under Anthony Caro. He completed his academic training in 1965, and in 1967, Brener was one of the founders of the Stockwell Depot, a studio and exhibition space occupying part of a disused brewery in south London. Brener taught at Saint Martin's, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Iowa before being appointed Associate Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 1974. He retired from teaching in 1997 and continued to live and work in Victoria, Canada until his death in 2006.

Brener's early practice grew from the formalist innovations of his contemporaries at Saint Martin's. During the 1980s his work developed a more playful individuality as he began to incorporate consumer items, most often toys, and experiment with kinetic sculpture driven by electronic motors or computers. In his later work he began to use the computer as a design tool to produce fantastical distortions of everyday images and objects which were then fabricated in wood or synthetic materials.

Brener represented Canada at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1987 and the Venice Biennale in 1988. In 2000, Brener exhibited Swinger at Deitch Projects in New York, and in 2006 he was in Part Two, a duo exhibition with Mowry Baden at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

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