MILES RUFELDS

Only Reliable Narrators
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
You can draw a straight line
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.
Annotations on a Profitable Enterprise (It Spans the World)
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
VISION CREEP
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.
Of Several Depths
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
"Thirty cents, fifty cents..."
"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.
'No Long Shadows'
'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
Two or Three Saprophytes
Two or Three Saprophytes
2019

Essay film + solo exhibition, initially shown at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Frozen Dead, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences
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)
REDFIELD
REDFIELD
2018-

Ongoing correspondence with an anonymous contact
Stem is to Leaf
Stem is to Leaf
2017

Single-channel looping video
Its Mouth Only Grows
Its Mouth Only Grows
2017

Four-channel video installation presented as a solo exhibition in Union Gallery project space
In Landfills
In Landfills
2017

Single-channel looping video
Royalty Free Images
Royalty Free Images
2017

Kinetic sculpture with sound component
Photonausea
Photonausea
2016

Single-channel video installation with sound
The Contortionists
The Contortionists
2016-17

Series of single-channel video works
Cruelty Sculptures
Cruelty Sculptures
2015-16

Kinetic sculptures with vegetal produce
Petrified
Petrified
2015

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

Inkjet prints on Enhanced matte paper
Providence
Providence
2014

Two-channel video with sound
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You can draw a straight line
2022

Solo exhibition at Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa, ON
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