Jon Rafman

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Jon Rafman: Dream Journal 2016-2017, Fri Art Kunsthalle @ Fri-Son, Fribourg (Swiss)

2018
Jon Rafman: The Mental Traveller, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Galleria Civica di Modena, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (Italy)

2017
Jon Rafman: Erysichthon, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Jon Rafman, Arsenal, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Dream Journal, ’16-’17, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

2016
Jon Rafman, Arsenal, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Jon Rafman, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm (Sweden)
Jon Rafman: I have ten thousand compound eyes and each is named suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2015
Jon Rafman, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal,QC (Canada)
Jon Rafman, The Zabludowicz Collection, London (United Kingdom)

2014
Jon Rafman: Mainsqueeze, Plymouth Rock, Zurich (Switzerland)
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL II, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in collaboration with LIBRALATO, Toronto, ON (Canada)
The end of the end of the end, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (United States of America)
Science Fiction: New Death, video projection in FACT, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
DISown, Installation in Red Bull Studios, Chelsea, curated by DIS magazine, New York, NY (United States of America)
Powerball Installation at The Power Plant, in collaboration with Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Toronto, ON (Canada)

2013
A Man Digging, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)
A Man Digging, Seventeen Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
You are standing in an open field, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY (United States of America)
Jon Rafman, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (Italy)
Remember Carthage: New Online Art, The New Museum, New York, NY (United States of America)
Annals of Time Lost, Future gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2012
Jon Rafman, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)
Jon Rafman: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Saatchi Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Mirror Sites, International Art Object Galleries and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (United States of America)
Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (Canada)
BNPJ MMXII, American Medium, New York, NY (United States of America)

2010
The Age Demanded, Golden Age, Chicago, IL (United States of America)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (Russia)
TBD, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah

2018
New Materialities in the Digital Age, Harlesden High Street, London (United Kingdom)
Landscapes, Seventeen Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
The Artist is Present, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (China)
Playlist, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Alone Together, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC (Canada)
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA (United States of America)
Blind Faith, Haus Der Kunst, Munich (Germany)
I Was Raised on The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (United States of America)
Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Seuls ensemble, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC (Canada)
Dream Journal ’16 – ’17, Entrée, Bergen (Norway)
Art Basel, Basel (Switzerland)

2017
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC (Canada)
.com/.cn, K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Shangai (China)
Unquestionable Optimism, curator Lindsay Howard, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY (United States of America)
Suspended Animation, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (France)
Dream Machines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (United States of America)
Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Charjah (United Arab Emirates)
Hello World ! Art After the Internet, ARS17, Kiasma Finish National Gallery, Helsinki (Finland)
After us, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai (China)
Mutations, The High Line, New York, NY (United States of America)
Jon Rafman / Stan Vanderbeek, Sprueth Mager Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (United States of America)
Sharjah Biennal 13, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)

2016
Omul Negru, Curator : Aaron Moulton, NICODIM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (United States of America)
Summer Triangle, with Adrian Wrong, Lantian Xie, Curator: Liu instrument, OCAT Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen (Chine)
Public, Private, Secret, curator: Charlotte Cotton, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY (United States of America) Welt am Draht, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (Germany)
Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich (Switzerland)
9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (Germany)
Manifesta 11, Zurich (Switzerland)
You Can See the Weakness of a Man Right Through his Iris, with Mark Soo, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Angell Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Dreaming Mirrors I Dreaming Screens, Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
Why the Performance?, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (China)
Möglichkeit Mensch, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen (Germany)
Mankind/Machinekind, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (Austria)
Under Arms: Fire & Forget 2 ,MAK, Frankfurt (Germany)
Posthumous Lives, Galerie Maria Bernhiem, Zurich (Switzerland)

2015
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Unsafe at Any Speed, 829Plaza, Montreal, QC (Canada)
2015 Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS (Canada)
The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary of Art, Moscow (Russia)
La vie moderne, 13e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (France)
Image Objects, Jon Rafman with Alice Channer, Lothar Hempei, Amanda Ross-Ho, Hank Willis Thomas, Timur Si Qin and Artie Vierkant, curated by Andria Hickey, City Park Hall, New York, NY (United States of America)
Grand Tour, Jon Rafman and Keren Cytter, Feuer/Mesler, New York, NY (United States of America)
Field Vision, Jon Rafman and Christian Jankowski, Future Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape, University of Richmond, VA (United States of America)
You wont believe (…), Division Gallery, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany)

2014
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (Ukraine)
What is a Photograph? International Center for Photography, New York, NY (United States of America)
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (China)
Science Fiction: Myths of the Present Future, Foundation for Art and Technology (FACT), Liverpool (United Kingdom)
The New Romantics, EYEBEAM, New York, NY (United States of America)
FIAC Projects 2014, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (France)
Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Poland)
AIRBNB Pavilion, 14th Architectural Biennale, Venice (Italy)
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (China)
Surface Modeling, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna (Austria)

2013
Where are we now?, The Collection Museum, Lincoln (United Kingdom)
Remember Carthage, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel (Germany)
MAMA Showroom, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
The Photographer’s Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY (United States of America)
Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal (Canada)

2012
Scope Creep, Yaffo23, Jerusalem (Israel)
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (United States of America)
Seriously Old Grey Hair, Christopher Crescent/ HD Project, New York, NY (United States of America)
Rome wasn’t built because no one was doing anything that day, Outpost, Norwich (United Kingdom)
Nine Eyes, Moscow Photobiennale, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow (Russia)
Public, CONTACT Photo Festival, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Screenshots, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States of America)
Mapas Invisibles, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico City (Mexico)
MMXII BNPJ, American Medium, New York, NY (United States of America)

2011
Point-of-Presence, TRUCK Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, AB (Canada)
Format, The Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO (United States of America)
*new jpegs*, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (Sweden)
From Here On, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie: International Photography Festival, Arles (France)
Alrededor es imposible, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Spain)
Stone Sky over Thingworld, Bitforms, New York, NY (United States of America)
Offline, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Pepsi Throwback Label on a New Coke Can, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA (United States of America)
Read/Write, 319 Scholes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (United States of America)

2010
Free, New Museum, New York, NY (United States of America)
Maps & Legends, Fotographia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Italy)
Repair, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (Austria)
A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI (United States of America)
Man in the Dark, The Woodmill, London (United Kingdom)
Within which all things exist and move, Art 45, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Enchanted, The School of Development, Berlin (Germany)
FutureEverything Festival, Manchester (United Kingdom)
Sculpture Storage, LaMaMA Gallery, New York, NY (United States of America)
Avatar 4D, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA (United States of America)

GRANTS, PRIZES AND MENTIONS

2018
Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Quebec’s region

2016
Longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Quebec’s region

2015
Laureate of the Prix Pierre Ayot, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award

2014
Nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize

2014
Long-listed for the Sobey Art Award

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2017
Mutations, the High Line, New York, NY (United States of America)
Unknown Road, Vancouver City Centre Station, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC (Canada)

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS

2017
Frieze New York Projects, New York, NY (United States of America)

2016
Frieze with Seventeen Gallery, London (United Kingdom)

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2017
Artist talk, IAM Weekend 17: The Renaissance of Utopias, Barcelona (Spain)
Video design for the opera Bomarzo, Teatro Real, Madrid (Spain)

2014
Artist talk, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), MN (United States of America)

RESIDENCIES

2013
SPACE Studios, London (United Kingdom)