Hugo Brown

UK born. Presently based in Toronto. Painter. Photographer. Magazine Designer. Typographer. Avid Cyclist. Bicycle Builder And Yogurt Maker. Awarded gold and silver design awards across Canada – and type awards in Dallas, Chicago and New York City. Coming from England and Europe he developed a unhealthy obsession, as a boy [and a paperboy] with North American Pop Culture. To get himself through art school he designed large storefront windows for Simpson's at the corner of Yonge and Queen Street.

Rudyard Kipling Public School - UK
Long Hill Secondary Rottingdean - UK
George Brown College - CA
Ontario College of Art and Design - CA

Brown’s paintings, photographs and installations have been exhibited throughout Toronto at a number of galleries including: MOCCA [Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art], Harbourfront, The Spoke Club, ZaZa Gallery, Spin Gallery, The Drake Hotel, The Gladstone Hotel, DeLeon White Gallery, Idée Gallery, Diesel Fitness Gallery, Gallery 11-7, Angel Gallery and TAAFI [Toronto Alternative Art Fair International].

His work is in over 135 private collections and he was the first artist to hang in The Drake Hotel's rear lobby with "Our Logo / Our Town" when The Drake opened in 2004. The Drake Hotel spearheaded a major resurgence of the Toronto art world in the mid-2000’s.

Brown was also selected for Magenta Foundation's 2nd major book – CB2: "Best Painters In Canada" and has been featured in many local and national Canadian magazines.

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Malcolm Brown's text-based paintings and mixed-media pieces are idiosyncratic personal and cultural commentaries on the interaction of the visual, the linguistic and the iconic. He "supercrashes" fragments of text, sentences, imploding statements, dynamic thought, caustic words, modern logos, cliches, scribbles, colour fields, shapes and lines to dislocate, obscure or pulveriz...