Born 1981, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Lives and works in Montréal, Canada
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Player Character, Basement Roma, Rome, Italy
2023
Poets, Gamblers, Fools, Lubov, USA
Fake Views, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
MANIFESTOXXIII, Kaleidoscope, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France
'ɐɹqɐpɥǝʞ ɐɹʌɐ', Neon Parc, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
Ebrah K'dabri, Sprüth Magers, London
Jon Rafman, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Minor Daemon, 180 The Strand, London
2022
Counterfeit Poast, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Ɛցɾҽցօɾҽʂ and Grimoires, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
What a Wonderful World, Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italy
₳Ɽ฿ł₮ɆⱤ Ø₣ ₩ØⱤⱠĐ₴, Ordet, Milan, Italy
2021
Dream Journal at Oval Office, Bochum, Germany
Kunstverein Hanover, Hanover, Germany
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2018
Dream Journal '16-'17, Entree, Bergen, Norway
Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, Italy
2017
Dream Journal '16-'17, Sprueth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016
I have Ten Thousand Compound Eyes and Each is Named Suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jon Rafman, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
2015
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2014
HopeSpringsEternalII, Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada
The End of the End of the End, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
2013
You Are Standing in An Open Field, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
A Man Digging, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Annals of Time Lost, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
The Big Chill, Bernheim, London, UK
Scrap Yard Screening, Sara's, New York, USA
Lucky Syndrome, StudyArtPlatform, Stockholm, Sweden
L'Argent dans l'Art, Monnaie de Paris
Expect the Unexpected, Kunstmuseum Bonn
I'll be your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
A Leap into the Void. Art beyond Matter, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
2022
A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz Cedex Punctured Sky, Metz, France
Melbourne International Film Festival angels on horseback, Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany
What a Wonderful World, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021
Bon Voyage, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, The Dreamers, Belgrade, Serbia
The 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ticket to the Future, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2020
Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2019
May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14 ,Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Jon Rafman: Dream Journal 2016-2017, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland
Serious Games, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Black Cloud - KIyv Biennale 2019, Kiyv, Ukraine
2018
Art in the Age of the Internet , 1989-Today, Institut of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Blind Faith, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Your North is My South, Stadtische Museen Freiburg, Germany
Fosun Foundation Collection Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Our thing: Aude Pariset, Jon Rafman, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Antoine, Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada
States of Play, Fact Liverpool, UK
I Was Raised on The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerlaand
New Acquisitions exhibition, Musee Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
How To See [What Isn't There], Langen Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
ANTI-: 6th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fields of Invisibility, Sesc Belenzinho, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Low Form, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Ghost:2561, Bangkok, Thailand
Virtual Insanity , Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2017
A Crack in Everything, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
.com/.cn, K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Shanghai, China
Jon Rafman | Stan VanDerBeek, Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles SharjahBiennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
After Us, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Hello World! Art after the Internet, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki Mutations, High Line Art, New York, USA
Frieze Projects, Frieze, New York, USA
Dream Machines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Suspended Animation, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Still Human, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2016
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Manifesta Biennial for European Art 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Welt am Draht, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
Dreaming Mirrors/Dreaming Screens, Sprueth Magers, 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, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Posthumous Lives, Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2015
Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Image Objects, Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, New York, USA
Field Vision, Jon Rafman and Christian Jankowski, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Grand Tour, Jon Rafman and Keren Cytter, Feuer/Mesler, New York, USA
2014
FIAC Projects 2014 , Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Fire and Forget: On Violence. KW Presents at HUA2 , Hebeal Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
AIRBNB Pavilion, 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Chna
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy, Lori Bookstein, New York, USA
Surface Modeling, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Science Fiction: New Death, FACT, Liverpool, UK
What Is a Photograph? International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2013
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada
2012
Moscow Photo Biennial, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow Free, New Museum, New York, USA
MMXII BNPJ, American Medium, New York, USA
EDUCATION
2000 - 2004 McGill University, B.A. in Major Philosophy and Literature
2006 - 2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A. in Film, Video and New Media
PROJECTS
2018
The Ride Never Ends video installation for Balenciaga Spring 2019 Fashion Show
Poor Magic, Bright Future Program, Rotterdam International Film Festival
2017
Bomarzo, Scenic design for Opera directed by Pierre Audi, Teatro Real Madrid, Spain
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2022 KNF Awarfd, Nederlands (Winner)
2018 Sobey Award (Shortlist)
2016 Long-Term Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts 2016 Pierre Ayot Award, Ville De Montréal
2016 Sobey Award (Longlist)
2015 Sobey Award (Shortlist)
2014 Future Generation Prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev (Long list)
2012 Media Arts Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Banque Nationale, Montréals, Canada
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, USA
DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette Fosun Foundation Collection, Shanghai, China
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angele, USA
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
MACRO|Museo d'arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
Musée des beaux‐arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canda
RBC Collection, Toronto, Canda
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ville de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK