Brandon Gabriel Kwelexwecten is a graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, and minored in First Nations Studies. He currently guest lectures and teaches middle school, high school, and university level First Nations history across the lower mainland.
Brandon is an internationally renowned and award winning artist whose works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, The United Kingdom, the USA, and across Canada.
Brandon lives in the beautiful Kwantlen Nation community in unceded Kwantlen territories with his wife Melinda, who are raising their beautiful daughter Jamie (born March 2016). Melinda is completing her MA in Indigenous Governance at UVic. Together they work in various Indigenous communities in matters pertaining to social justice, and focus on decolonizing methodologies in education systems.