Jon Rafman was born in 1981 in Montreal, Canada. His artistic practice spans film, sculpture, photography and installation, incorporating the rich vocabulary of virtual worlds to create poetic narratives that critically engage with the present. His works have been featured in prominent international exhibitions, including the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), and many more. Rafman's recent solo exhibitions include Dream Journal 2016 - 2019, Centraal Museum, Utrecht; The Mental Traveller, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2018); Dream Journal 16' - 17', Sprueth Magers Berlin (2017); I Have Ten Thousand Compound Eyes and Each is Named Suffering, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster (2016).
