The Driehaus Museum presents Brendan Fernandes: In the Round, the latest installment in its A Tale of Today series which invites contemporary art into dialogue with the Museum's historic architecture and collections. As its first artist-in-residence, Brendan Fernandes transforms the Museum's 1926 Murphy Auditorium into an immersive environment for performance, movement, sound, and sculpture. Inspired by the groundbreaking legacy of New York City's Judson Dance Theater, In the Round reimagines the relationship between dance, architecture, and community.

At the center of the exhibition is Fernandes' commissioned performance work, Score for the Murphy Auditorium, alongside Concerts of Dance, a series of open rehearsals, workshops, and performances featuring collaborators from Chicago's independent dance community, including Xenia Mansour, Hanna DiLorenzo, and Kara Hunsinger. Designed in collaboration with AIM Architecture and featuring textile works developed with The Fabric Workshop and Museum and a sound installation by Chicago experimental musician Alex Inglizian, In the Round creates an interactive environment where visitors can encounter history, performance, and space from multiple perspectives.

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his multidisciplinary practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and collective movement through collaborative works that blur the boundaries between performance, social engagement, and visual art. Fernandes is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University and has exhibited extensively at leading institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.