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

                        exhibition installation

             Double Double Land Land, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario

                        more exhibition pictures

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

                        view catalogue

                        view catalogue in detail


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   

  1.            mMOCCA Silent Auction, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

  2.            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 Wildlifepublished 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 FabricTextile Museum of Canada (commissioned contributor).  www.textilemuseum.ca/socialfabric (May 2010)

Miles CollyerI like this art (feature).  ilikethisart.blogspot.com (May 2009)

Miles CollyerSwitzerland Creative Services (feature).  switzerlandcs.blogspot.com (September 2008)

Miles CollyerToro Magazine (feature).  www.toromagazine.com (June 2008)

Nothing Magazine #17Nothing Magazine (feature interview).  www.nothingmag.com (May 2007)        view a PDF version

NANIWAFrau Böhm (international weblog project).  blog.frau-boehm.de (ongoing throughout 2006)

Exhibitions in the guestroomThe Böhn Trade Center (online exhibition).  www.frau-boehm.de (February 2006)

Photos from the mind of Miles CollyerInquiring 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

                    (Winter 2009), p. 54-55

             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

                    purchase this book

             Politics as Unusual: A Legend is Born, (visual essay) The Walrus Magazine

                    (March 2008), p. 54-67

2007      Goin’ Postal exhibition catalogue, (photography and editing). Published by Art Metropole, Toronto


REVIEWS & PRINT FEATURES


2012      Niazi, Amil.  PanoramaKaleidosope, 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 DesignThing: beware the material world, (exhibition catalogue).  Perth: Art Gallery of

                        Western Australia, p. 35, 2009;

             Follwell, Matthew.  Altered PerceptionOur Neighbourhood Magazine, February, p. 38, 2009;

2009      Wojtyra, Antoni & Wu, Annie.  ideally, (exhibition catalogue).  Biel: Utopics 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition,

                        p. 18-22, 2009;

2008      Gierasimczuk, Tom.  Art of DarknessUp! 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 SodalistsAX National, August, p. 8, 2007;

             Balzer, David.  Goin’ PostalEye 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 PunchNow 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

2010                  Public lecture, Trace the stitch lines between virtual and actual. G Gallery (organized by Gendai Gallery)

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

2003                  Installation crew member, Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1100 Concentric bands. Toronto Pearson International Airport

2001                  Photo Studio/Photo Resource assistant - Art Gallery of Ontario


Click here to download my CV as a PDF or click on achievements for additional information

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Bio:

      Miles Collyer (born, 1983 in Toronto) is a visual artist whose practice is motivated by

photo-based sources and issues relating to cultural identity. He studied at the Ontario

College of Art & Design where he was the recipient of several academic scholarships and

awards before graduating with a BFA in photography in 2006. After completing his

undergraduate studies Collyer has gone on to receive further grants and awards for his work,

most notably a Gold medal in 2008 from the Canadian National Magazine Awards in the

category of Best Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article. His work has been widely

published and exhibited across Canada, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Germany

and several curated exhibits online.


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