Background
Rafman was born in Montreal, Canada.
Rafman was born in Montreal, Canada.
His work centers around the concept of the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness. His artwork has gained international attention and will be exhibited in late 2015 at Musée d"art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal). He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View (9-Eyes).
He holds an Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University.
He lives in Montreal. Rafman has been in various group exhibitions including 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. He has contributed to exhibitions at New Museum (2010), The Saatchi Gallery (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2010), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (2012), Palais de Tokyo (2012), and The Fridericianum (2013).
He has also been in several solo exhibitions, including, Annals of Time Lost, at Future Gallery, Berlin (April 2013), A Manitoba Digging, at Seventeen Gallery, London (May 2013), and You Are Standing in an Open Field ( Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, September 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).
