MILES RUFELDS

Only Reliable Narrators
2022
(As curator)
Exhibition at the plumb, Toronto, contemplating the ways that narratives and stories work to structure collective ideas of truth, history, power, science, self, and hope.
Featuring works and projects by Jenna Bliss, Andrew Davis, Zahra Komeylian, Jennifer Laiwint, and Erdem Taşdelen
(As curator)
Exhibition at the plumb, Toronto, contemplating the ways that narratives and stories work to structure collective ideas of truth, history, power, science, self, and hope.
Featuring works and projects by Jenna Bliss, Andrew Davis, Zahra Komeylian, Jennifer Laiwint, and Erdem Taşdelen

You can draw a straight line
2022
Solo exhibition at Karsh-Masson Gallery, adopting a self-consciously conspiratorial lens to envisage Canada's history of resource extraction and colonial entrenchment.
Solo exhibition at Karsh-Masson Gallery, adopting a self-consciously conspiratorial lens to envisage Canada's history of resource extraction and colonial entrenchment.

Annotations on a Profitable Enterprise (It Spans the World)
2022
Digital collage on floor vinyl; 27' x 10'
Site-specific commission for exhibition "I am land that remembers," curated by Maya Wilson Sanchez, installed at Union Station, Toronto
Digital collage on floor vinyl; 27' x 10'
Site-specific commission for exhibition "I am land that remembers," curated by Maya Wilson Sanchez, installed at Union Station, Toronto

VISION CREEP
2021
(As curator)
Screening program for Pleasure Dome, surveying the technologies of aesthetic perception across histories of art, ecology, war, medicine, and magic.
Featuring works by Bambitchell, Jeamin Cha, Jim Matlock, Sam Meech, Jol Thoms, and Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt.
(As curator)
Screening program for Pleasure Dome, surveying the technologies of aesthetic perception across histories of art, ecology, war, medicine, and magic.
Featuring works by Bambitchell, Jeamin Cha, Jim Matlock, Sam Meech, Jol Thoms, and Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt.

Of Several Depths
2021
(As curator)
Exhibition at the plumb, Toronto. Works and projects that examine subterranean space as a nexus of both materialist and occult systems.
Featuring Alana Bartol, Erika DeFreitas, Anna Eyler + Nicolas Lapointe, Dana Prieto, Maria Simmons, Angela Snieder, Sara Stern, and Kate Whiteway
(As curator)
Exhibition at the plumb, Toronto. Works and projects that examine subterranean space as a nexus of both materialist and occult systems.
Featuring Alana Bartol, Erika DeFreitas, Anna Eyler + Nicolas Lapointe, Dana Prieto, Maria Simmons, Angela Snieder, Sara Stern, and Kate Whiteway

"Thirty cents, fifty cents..."
2021
3-channel video installation looking at the spread of Canada's transport and telecommunications infrastructure, connecting Canada's colonial "Western Expansion" to global networks of imperial capitalism. Presented in the window space of Neutral Ground, Regina, SK.
3-channel video installation looking at the spread of Canada's transport and telecommunications infrastructure, connecting Canada's colonial "Western Expansion" to global networks of imperial capitalism. Presented in the window space of Neutral Ground, Regina, SK.

'No Long Shadows'
2020
Solo exhibition at PAVED Arts, unpacking the legacy of a cancelled 1959 film festival organized by filmmaker Stan Brakhage and military-chemical giant DuPont
Solo exhibition at PAVED Arts, unpacking the legacy of a cancelled 1959 film festival organized by filmmaker Stan Brakhage and military-chemical giant DuPont

Two or Three Saprophytes
2019
Essay film + solo exhibition, initially shown at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Essay film + solo exhibition, initially shown at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Frozen Dead, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences
2019
Site-specific installation made for "unscheduled arrivals" exhibition at Bunker 2 (located inside a converted refrigerated shipping container)
Site-specific installation made for "unscheduled arrivals" exhibition at Bunker 2 (located inside a converted refrigerated shipping container)

REDFIELD
2018-
Ongoing correspondence with an anonymous contact
Ongoing correspondence with an anonymous contact

Stem is to Leaf
2017
Single-channel looping video
Single-channel looping video

Its Mouth Only Grows
2017
Four-channel video installation presented as a solo exhibition in Union Gallery project space
Four-channel video installation presented as a solo exhibition in Union Gallery project space

In Landfills
2017
Single-channel looping video
Single-channel looping video

Royalty Free Images
2017
Kinetic sculpture with sound component
Kinetic sculpture with sound component

Photonausea
2016
Single-channel video installation with sound
Single-channel video installation with sound

The Contortionists
2016-17
Series of single-channel video works
Series of single-channel video works

Cruelty Sculptures
2015-16
Kinetic sculptures with vegetal produce
Kinetic sculptures with vegetal produce

Petrified
2015
Inkjet print on Enhanced matte paper
Inkjet print on Enhanced matte paper

For Just a Moment
2015
Inkjet prints on Enhanced matte paper
Inkjet prints on Enhanced matte paper

Providence
2014
Two-channel video with sound
Two-channel video with sound

You can draw a straight line
2022
Solo exhibition at Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa, ON
Solo exhibition at Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa, ON