Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman is a Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View (9-Eyes). Rafman is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery in New York, Seventeen Gallery in London, and Future Gallery in Berlin. He has been exhibited at the New Museum, The Saatchi Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Palais de Tokyo, and The Fridericianum. His work explores the impact of digital technology on the individual and society at large, with a recent emphasis on the effect of digital media on memory and history. Rafman’s work has been featured in Modern Painters, Frieze, The New York Times, and Art Forum. He has been included in various group exhibitions including Les Rencontres d’Arles, new jpegs, at the Johan Berggren Gallery in Malmo, Sweden, Free, at the New Museum in New York, and Speculations on Anonymous Materials at The Fridericianum'in Kassel. His most recent solo exhibitions include Annals of Time Lost, at Future Gallery, Berlin (April 2013), A Man Digging, at Seventeen Gallery, London (May 2013), and You Are Standing in an Open Field ( Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Sep 2013). In September 2013, Rafman collaborated with Brooklyn-based experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never on a film to accompany the release of R Plus Seven (Warp). Rafman was educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and McGill University.
9 Eyes of Google Street View // 2011
Image courtesy of the artist.
Cohosted with Springsteen Gallery
Springsteen is an artist-run gallery dedicated to showing young, newly established, and critically engaged artists. Springsteen is located at 1511 Guilford Ave, Unit B303, and is open open Saturdays from 1-4pm and by appointment. The space is co-directed by Hunter Bradley and Amelia Szpiech.