Miles Rufelds
Miles Rufelds is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s of Visual Studies in studio practice from the University of Toronto.
Rufelds’ research-based practice mixes archival investigation with strategies of speculative- and para-fiction, producing films and exhibitions that consider the ways individuals and communities attempt to make sense of material power structures. Invoking archetypes of the independent researcher and unreliable narrator, Rufelds’ interdisciplinary projects explore how forms of narrativity mediate the effects of material systems. His projects often focus on stories where histories of science, industry, labour, ecology and war intersect with artistic, political or esoteric subcultures.
Rufelds has participated in exhibitions and screenings nationally and internationally, including presentations at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Blackwood Gallery, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, PAVED Arts, the CAFKA Biennial, the Karsh-Masson Gallery, ArtworxTO and the SIM Gallery. He is also a co-founder and collective member of the Toronto gallery the plumb. [Source: VOX, 2025]
