Born 1981, Quebec, Canada.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
Arbiter of Worlds, 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
Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena
2017
Dream Journal '16-'17, Sprueth Magers, Berlin
Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2016
I have Ten Thousand Compound Eyes and Each is Named Suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster
2015
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
2014
HopeSpringsEternalII, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal
The End of the End of the End, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
2013
You Are Standing in An Open Field, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
A Man Digging, Seventeen Gallery, London
Annals of Time Lost, Future Gallery, Berlin
2012
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Saatchi Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2021
Bon Voyage, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany (Forthcoming)
58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, The Dreamers, Belgrade, Serbia (Forthcoming)
The 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Forthcoming)
Ticket to the Future, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (Forthcoming)
2020
Moesman, Surrealism and the Sexes, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (Forthcoming)
2019
May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14 ,Sharjah
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, Jewish Museum, New York
Jon Rafman: Dream Journal 2016-2017, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg
Serious Games, How Art Museum, Shanghai
Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Forthcoming)
Black Cloud - KIyv Biennale 2019, Kiyv
2018
Art in the Age of the Internet , 1989-Today , ICA Boston
Blind Faith, Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Your North is My South, Stadtische Museen Freiburg
Fosun Foundation Collection Exhibition, Shanghai
Our thing: Aude Pariset, Jon Rafman, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Galerie Antoine, Ertaskiran, Montréal
States of Play, Fact Liverpool
I Was Raised on The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel
New Acquisitions exhibition, Musee Art Contemporain, Montreal
How To See [What Isn't There], Langen Foundation, Dusseldorf
ANTI-: 6th Athens Biennale, Athens
Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Fields of Invisibility, Sesc Belenzinho, Sao Paolo
Low Form, M AXXI, Rome
Ghost:2561, Bangkok
Virtual Insanity , Kunsthalle Mainz
2017
A Crack in Everything, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
.com/.cn, K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Shanghai
Jon Rafman | Stan VanDerBeek, Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles SharjahBiennial,Sharjah
After Us, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai
Hello World! Art after the Internet, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki Mutations, High Line Art, New York
Frieze Projects, Frieze, New York
Dream Machines, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Suspended Animation , Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Still Human, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2016
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Manifesta Biennial for European Art 11, Zurich
Welt am Draht , Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
Dreaming Mirrors/Dreaming Screens , Sprueth Magers, Berlin
Why the Performance? Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Möglichkeit Mensch , Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
Mankind/Machinekind, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Under Arms: Fire & Forget 2, MAK, Frankfurt
Posthumous Lives , Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich
Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015
Lyon Biennial, Lyon
Welcome to the Jungle , KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Image Objects, Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, New York
Field Vision, Jon Rafman and Christian Jankowski, Future Gallery, Berlin Grand Tour, Jon Rafman and Keren Cytter, Feuer/Mesler, New York
2014
FIAC Projects 2014 , Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
Fire and Forget: On Violence. KW Presents at HUA2 , Hebeal Am Ufer, Berlin
21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
AIRBNB Pavilion, 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy, Lori Bookstein, New York
Surface Modeling, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Science Fiction: New Death, FACT, Liverpool, UK
What Is a Photograph? International Center of Photography, New York
2013
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel
Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal
2012
Moscow Photo Biennial, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow Free, New Museum, New York
MMXII BNPJ, American Medium, New York
SELECTED SPECIAL 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, Teatro Real Madrid, scenic design for opera directed by Pierre Audi
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
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas
DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette Fosun Foundation Collection, Shanghai
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf MACRO|Museo d'arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome Moderna
Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Musée des beaux‐arts de Montréal, Montréal
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
RBC Collection, Toronto
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Ville de Montréal, Montréal
Zabludowicz Collection, London
EDUCATION
2006-2008 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2000-2004 BA, Philosophy and Literature, McGill University, Montréal