MILES PETRELLA

b. 1993

lives and works in Montreal, QC


EDUCATION

2018, Certificate, Artistic Makeup: Beauty & Fashion, Inter-Dec College

2017, BFA, Studio Arts (major) & Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality (minor) - with distinction 

Concordia University, Montreal

2013, DEC, Fine Arts, Dawson College, Montreal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021, Les Liens Futurs, 2122 rue Crescent, Montreal 

2018, Chromatic Festival, L'Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts, Montreal

2018, Wiggle Festival, NeverApart, Montreal

2017, Interim, L'Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts, Montreal

2017, Not/Fitting-In, VAV Gallery, Montreal

2017, The View from Here: Sex, Sexuality & Identity as Experienced by Women & Queer Artists, Espace Cercle Carré, Montreal

2016, Generations, VAV Gallery, Montreal

2016, Summer Pals, Camp Gallery, Montreal

2016, Centerfold 9, Nuwrk, Montreal

2016, TransFORMation, VAV Gallery, Montreal

2016, Tactile Museum, Eastern Bloc, Montreal

2015, #03.VAV, VAV Gallery, Montreal

2015, Backyard Sessions, Blanc de Blanc, Montreal

2015, Oppression Aesthetics, VAV Gallery, Montreal

2013, Chrysalis, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal

2013 The Human Body, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal

2012, Transforming Futures, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal

ART RESIDENCIES

2021, ART SOUTERRAIN: Créer Des Ponts , Montreal

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2017, Intercept, Centre SKOL

2016, We, “Other”, L’Ancienne Ecole des Beaux-Arts (POP Montreal)

2016, We, “Other”, Galerie POPOP (Art Matters)

OTHER EXPERIENCES

2017, Exhibition designer (Interfold Magazine)

2016, Creative direction assistant/set design (Romeo & Fils)

2014-2015,  Intern at Project10

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS

2015, Finalist for the Cecil Buller, John J.A. Murphy & Lise-Hélène Larin Scholarship in Drawing

2015, Nominated for Yale University’s Norfolk Summer School for Art & Music

2014, Golden Key International Honour Society

2013, Henry I. Chinks Memorial Entrance Scholarship

2013, Dawson College Fine Arts program Honorable Mention

BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS

2016, Fear of Disclosure: The Psycho-social Implications of HIV Revelation (review), AIDS Film & Video (zine) created by Ryan Conrad, Montreal

2016, Opulence, public spaces, and pastel colours, The McGill Daily, Montreal

2016, Art, Stuff, The Link: Volume 36, Issue 23, Montreal

2016, Art Matters Catalogue, Montreal

2015, Derelict Windows with text by Heather O’Neill, The Offing, Los Angeles

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