Jon Rafman’s art practice explores the increasingly blurred lines between real and digital worlds by mining the rich potential of new technologies to represent the impossible. He is best known for his “9-Eyes” series, for which he appropriated photographs amassed by Google Street View’s nine cameras that cataloged the world’s roads.
Jon Rafman (b. 1981, Montreal, Canada) lives and works in Montreal. His work has been featured in solo shows at the Museé d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (2015), New Museum, New York (2013), and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012). He has shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and International Center of Photography, New York. His films have been screened at Art Basel in Miami Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and the Edinburgh Arts Festival. His work is held in the collections of the Getty Trust, Los Angeles, Saatchi Collection, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, among others. He received a BA in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University in 2004, and an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Rafman is represented by M+B in Los Angeles, Zach Feuer Gallery in New York, and Future Gallery in Berlin.
(as of 2015)