About

Brendan Burke is a New York-based artist and builder whose work lives at the intersection of light, perception, and fabrication. He photographs, designs lighting, fabricates kinetic sculpture, directs film, writes code, and engineers interactive systems — not as separate disciplines but as aspects of one practice organized around how we see and what we think we're looking at.

He builds the things he imagines. A mobile platform that carried a 750-pound monument across America. Wearable glasses that detect strobe flashes and darken in two milliseconds. A two-way mirror booth that superimposes two faces until neither person knows which features are theirs. A 3D-printed zoetrope whose geometry makes spinning objects appear to freeze. A mirror-clad art car that dissolved into the Nevada desert.

His editorial and commercial work has appeared in Vogue China, Self, Paper, Allure, and L'Officiel, with clients including Tommy Hilfiger, Armani Exchange, SoulCycle, Bergdorf Goodman, and Lashify. He has designed lighting and production for events at House of Yes, Joe's Pub, Bonnaroo, and Burning Man.

Brendan holds several patents in wearable optical technology. He has collaborated extensively with Hybrid Movement Company, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, WinkWorld, The Lot Radio, and dozens of choreographers, musicians, designers, and fabricators across New York's creative community.

He lives in Brooklyn.