Brandon
Poole

is an artist and researcher based in Montreal, QC. Having previously trained in journalism and philosophy, his practice moves by way of interviews and fieldwork to examine the entwined histories and speculative futures of media, simulation, and the image. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honours and distinction, from the University of Victoria, a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, and he is currently a PhD student within McGill’s School of Architecture (History and Theory). His work has been shown at Dazibao, the Toronto Biennial, the University of Toronto’s Art Museum, Presentation House (Polygon) Gallery (Vancouver, BC), and Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria BC). 

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Unless the Eye Catch Fire
Screening, Iowa City Docs, April 27th, 2025



and beneath these clouds
Solo Exhibtion of new work at Dazibao 
November 16, 2023 to January 20, 2024Montreal, QC

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Dry Dwellers of Eternity (Offshore Operations Simulator)
& Dry Dwellers of Eternity (Carla’s Island) 

Installation as part of non_syntax Experimental Image Festival, Eukaryote Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

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Dry Dwellers of Eternity (Offshore Operations Simulator)
Screening at EXIS, Seoul, South Korea
July 21, 2023

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Cygnus
Screening at Suspaustus Laikas, Vilnius, Lithuania.
July 28, 2023

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TENEVENTS  (Q1)
Year-long quarterly publication residency with P.A.R.C, Parc Offsite. Montreal. 
Q1  January 2023

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Islands
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olo exhibtion at Deluge Contemporary Art
Victoria BC.
Nov 4 - Dec 3, 2022

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Focused Group: Four More Years
Screening and group discussion
Eli Kerr and Brandon Poole
OPTICA centre d’art contemporain
Montreal QC.
October 15th 2022

Held in conjunction with Eli Kerr’s exhibtion at Centre OPTICA, Alternative Convention: Top Value Television’s Four More Years.

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One through the Other
Solo exhibition at San Sheng Art Space
Markham ON.
Mar 4 - April 17, 2022

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Carla’s Island, 1981
Commissioned for The Drowned World, a sound and screening program at the Cinesphere curated by Charles Stankievech as part of the Toronto Biennial.
Fall 2019

The program can be downloaded here.

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