EDUCATION
2006 • Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the Ontario College of Art & Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2012 • The AGYU Performance Bus, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario
2010 • Miles Collyer, G Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 • Home-made Home-grown, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, British Columbia
2007 • Home-made Home-grown, Paul Petro Multiples + Small Works, Toronto, Ontario
• pictures from the public performance
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 • Field Trip Project, curated by Daisuke Takeya, various locations in Japan and Canada
• Peace Flags Project, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Courtyard), Toronto, Ontario
• Editions Part 1 & Part 2 , Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario (view exhibit installation images)
2011 • PIN UP, Mercer Union A Centre For Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
• Again With Feeling!, N/A, Toronto, Ontario
• Portage, Okazi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• Like Some Pool of Fire, Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia
2010 • Some Enchanted Evenings: A Nuit Blanche Retrospective Exhibition, Scotia Plaza, Toronto, Ontario
2009 • Taxi, Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Toronto, Ontario
• Ideally by W+W for Utopics 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel, Switzerland
• THING beware the material world, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• Double Double Land Land, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
2008 • Ground Frame Released, Switch Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
2007 • Staring Therapy, Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Brotherhood, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney, Australia
• Come Join The Brotherhood, Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 • Punch 3, G+ Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
• read Sarah Todd’s text about the exhibited series
• Download the exhibition brochure
• F-Stop and Check It Out, XPace, Toronto, Ontario
• Developers, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Ontario
• Semblance, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 • Hero’s & Icons, Base Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 • Curator, Goin’ Postal: A Mail-art Exhibit, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2012 • Visual Artists: Emerging Grant, Ontario Arts Council
• Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2011 • Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2010 • Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2009 • Gold medal from the 2008 National Magazine Awards: Best Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article
• Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2007 • Level One Grant to Visual Artists, Toronto Arts Council
• M.C. McCain Post-Graduate Photography Residency, OCAD
2006 • Polaroid Canada Scholarship, OCAD
2005 • Mark McCain Tuition Scholarship, OCAD
• Diana Myers Book-arts Award, OCAD
2004 • Polaroid Canada Scholarship, OCAD
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (Public)
Mark McCain & Caro MacDonald, Toronto (Private)
Wanda Koop, Winnipeg (Private)
AUCTIONS
2012 • 8th Annual C Magazine Benefit Auction, Toronto, Ontario
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• mMOCCA Silent Auction, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
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• Photorama, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
2011 • Photopia, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
2010 • Photorama, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
• 6th Annual C Magazine Benefit Auction, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto, Ontario
2009 • Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop Auction, Guvernment and Koolhaus, Toronto, Ontario
2008 • Photorama, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
• Cash Rules But Your Love Is King, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
2007 • Spring Fling 3 C Magazine Fundraiser (Curated by Rosemary Heather), Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Ontario
• 12th Annual Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop Auction, Moss Park Armoury, Toronto, Ontario
• Art With Heart Auction: A Fundraiser for Casey House, The Carlu, Toronto, Ontario
2006 • Photorama, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
PUBLISHED ARTWORK
2011 • TrackTop Masks: Colour Wheel, Like Some Pool of Fire, published by Open Space, Victoria, p. 5, 8.
2010 • Böhm Kobayashi Encyclopedia, Böhm #37b, p. 17, 30, 35, & 56-57
2009 • EmEm, 61 Newspaper Poster Issue #1: Canadian Wildlife, published by The Ossington, Toronto
2008 • Huntah, Das Parkheft, published by Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, p. 18-19
• Home-made Home-grown, Up! Magazine (September 2008) vol. 4, no. 9. p. 51.
2007 • Kobayashi San - NANIWA Project. Published by the Goethe-Institute, Toronto
• TrackTop Masks: One Eye, C Magazine #93 (Spring 2007), p. 49
2006 • TrackTop Masks, Colour Wheel, They Shoot Homos Don’t They? #3, p. 84-85 • view page in detail
• The Blog issue, Die Böhm #28b
• Kobayashi part 2, Die Böhm #30
2005 • TrackTop Masks, Look-Look Magazine #5, p. cover, 36-39, & back cover
• Mask Buttons, Groin Magazine, p. 3-4
2004 • Building/Worker, Photo Life Magazine, vol. 29, no. 05, p.35
2001 • Prostitutes of Style, Dojo Magazine, vol. 0, no. 1, p. 43
SELECT DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
Opening Boarders/Opening Objects, University of Western Ontario (commissioned contributor).
Social Fabric, Textile Museum of Canada (commissioned contributor). www.textilemuseum.ca/socialfabric (May 2010)
Miles Collyer, I like this art (feature). ilikethisart.blogspot.com (May 2009)
Miles Collyer, Switzerland Creative Services (feature). switzerlandcs.blogspot.com (September 2008)
Miles Collyer, Toro Magazine (feature). www.toromagazine.com (June 2008)
Nothing Magazine #17, Nothing Magazine (feature interview). www.nothingmag.com (May 2007) • view a PDF version
NANIWA, Frau Böhm (international weblog project). blog.frau-boehm.de (ongoing throughout 2006)
Exhibitions in the guestroom, The Böhn Trade Center (online exhibition). www.frau-boehm.de (February 2006)
Photos from the mind of Miles Collyer, Inquiring Mind (feature interview). www.inquiringmind.ca (Fall 2005)
COMMISSIONED WORK
2009 • Report On The New York Book Art Fair, (review and photo documentation). C Magazine #104
• Micah Lexier - Twelve of One, (display documentation). Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
• AA Bronson (interview), Bad Day Magazine issue #5 (July 2009), p. 30-37
2008 • Terence Koh: A Beaver’s Tail, (performance documentation). Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
• Politics as Unusual: A Legend is Born, (visual essay) The Walrus Magazine
2007 • Goin’ Postal exhibition catalogue, (photography and editing). Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
REVIEWS & PRINT FEATURES
2012 • Niazi, Amil. Panorama. Kaleidosope, Issue 13 (Winter 2011/12), p. 148-159;
2011 • Colangelo, David R. Again, With Feeling!, (exhibition essay). Toronto: N/A artspace;
• Heather, Rosemary. Miles Collyer. Canadian Art, Spring, p. 128, 2011;
2010 • Hutton, Jen. Miles Collyer, G Gallery (exhibition essay). Toronto: G Gallery, 2010;
2009 • Cook, Robert. International Artist Miles Collyer, Track Top Masks. Art Gallery of Western Australia Website,
(online feature), posted 18 May 2009;
• Cook, Robert. Finding Design. Thing: beware the material world, (exhibition catalogue). Perth: Art Gallery of
Western Australia, p. 35, 2009;
• Follwell, Matthew. Altered Perception. Our Neighbourhood Magazine, February, p. 38, 2009;
2009 • Wojtyra, Antoni & Wu, Annie. ideally, (exhibition catalogue). Biel: Utopics 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition,
2008 • Gierasimczuk, Tom. Art of Darkness. Up! Magazine, September, p. 50, 2008;
2007 • Whiteside, George. Toronto Now: To Watch. Canadian Art, Winter, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 64, 2007;
• Dare, Josh. Queer Sodalists. AX National, August, p. 8, 2007;
• Balzer, David. Goin’ Postal. Eye Weekly, 25 October, p. 55, 2007;
• Turner, Leah. Going Postal. mail art group show. COLOR Magazine, vol. 5, no. 6, p. 28, 2007;
• Jager, David. Lens-based works pack Punch. Now Magazine, 18 January, p. 68, 2007;
2006 • Sieber, Oliver. What is a good picture? Photographie Schweiz, July/August, p. 80-81, 2006;
2006 • Dault, Gary Michael. Zeroing in on some great big ideas. The Globe & Mail, 30 December, p. R6, 2006;
RELATED EMPLOYMENT & PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
2005 - 2012 Shop Manager, Art Metropole
2011 - Present Co-Founder, Customer Relations & CFO, The Tintype Studio
2011 Guest lecturer, 3rd year undergraduate class Concept Development: Fibre. Ontario College of Art & Design
Guest lecturer, undergraduate photography thesis students. Ontario College of Art & Design
2009 - 2010 Guest lecturer on artist publishing, multiples, and artist-runcentres. Grade 12 studio class.
Claude Watson Arts Program, Earl Haig Secondary School
2009 Public lecture, Sunday Sessions International Artist Floor Talk. Art Gallery of Western Australia
2008 - 2011 Guest lecturer on artists’ books and multiples, 4th year undergraduate studio class.
Brock University Department of Fine Art
2008 Public lecture, Sunday Scene: Steven Shearer. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 Photo Studio/Photo Resource assistant - Art Gallery of Ontario