SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the Ontario College of Art & Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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 Editions, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
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 SMIJ, Latvian Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario
Hero’s & Icons, Base Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 The Build Up, The Let Down, XPace, Toronto, Ontario
SMIJ, Latvian Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario
2003 SMIJ, Latvian Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 Curator, Goin’ Postal: A Mail-art Exhibit, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Co-organizer (w/ Alicia Coutts) Groin Magazine Exhibition, Adrift, Toronto, Ontario
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
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
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
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
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 - Present. Shop Manager, Art Metropole
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
2008 - Present. Guest lecturer on artists’ books and multiples, 4th year undergraduate studio class.
Brock University Department of Fine Art
Public lecture, Sunday Sessions International Artist Floor Talk. Art Gallery of Western Australia
2008 Public lecture, Sunday Scene: Steven Shearer. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 Photo Studio/Photo Resource assistant - Art Gallery of Ontario