Bio
Bryan Faubert received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia University of Art and Design and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 2020. In 2014, he opened Studio 34, a sculpture studio, where he taught workshops and classes and conducted his studio endeavours. This space was about accessibility to the public to experiment and learn, creating shared knowledge.
His most acclaimed artwork, YYC/LRT, is a decommissioned Calgary C-Train transformed into a public artwork with a retrofitted art studio. From this sculpture, Faubert implements public engagement activities such as workshops, mentorship programming, art instruction, classes, and public lectures. YYC/LRT sits proudly at the NVRLND. Arts Foundation. This artwork will operate from this location for the foreseeable future, where Faubert intends to keep putting this C-Train back in service to the public at large. This artwork was inspired by an apprenticeship the artist did in 2019 in New York City with internationally acclaimed sculptor Cal Lane.
The creation of YYC/LRT led Faubert to a new form of urban intervention, which the artist has coined as ‘Shadow Bombing’: projecting temporary shadow artworks in the urban cityscape ranging in scale from 1 foot to 300 feet in diameter with a mobile GOBO projector.
Faubert is a member of the Wolf-Sheep Arthouse Collective in Victoria. His exhibition history sits on both national and international platforms and is comprised of graffiti expositions, urban interventions, installations, pop-ups, artist-run centres, public sculpture, and commercial avenues. Artspace Bremerhaven, Germany, was his first international debut, which led to an invitation for an installation-based artwork at GO! - Game Over Berlin in 2022.
Placemaking is at the core of Faubert’s urban interventions and installations; this is where he creates a place of transition where the usual boundaries of thought, self-understanding, and behaviour shift, opening the way to something new.
