miles gertler — independent projects
co-director of common accounts
assistant professor, teaching stream at the university of toronto, daniels faculty of architecture, landscape, and design
board of directors at mercer union, a centre for contemporary art
b. 1990
m.arch princeton university
bas university of waterloo school of architecture
miles@commonaccounts.online
projects
time out for your side hassle and other cardboard works
the port and the fall of icarus
common accounts (co-directed with Igor Bragado)
exhibitions: independent
solo
rare item, corkin galley, 2017
instant double, solo booth, art toronto/corkin gallery, 2017
superlith and seven, corkin gallery, 2016
group/biennale
artists across generations, corkin gallery, 2022-2023
when the sun departs for a new horizon, corkin gallery, toronto, 2019
imago mundi: eastern canada, fondazione benetton, venice, 2017
lima photo, with corkin gallery, lima, 2016
in situ, toronto art book fair, toronto, 2016
exhibitions: common accounts
group/biennale
clima fitness, intermediae, matadero madrid, madrid, 2023-2024
foodscapes, spanish pavilion, venice architecture biennale, 2023
tumbling in harness, the art museum of the university of toronto, 2023
gta21, moca, toronto, 2021-2022
a section of now, canadian centre for architecture, montreal, 2021-22
designing death, cube design museum, kerkrade, 2020-21
fulfilled, knowlton school of architecture, ohio state university, columbus, 2020
in memoriam, yale school of architecture, new haven, 2020
aging world: will you still love me tomorrow? seoul museum of art (SeMA), seoul, 2019
cybernetics, curated by geoffrey pugen, uma vespaziani + grey93, toronto, 2018
documentos (por venir), bienal de arquitectura española, santander, july 2018
three ordinary funerals, seoul international biennale on architecture and urbanism, seoul, 2017
architecture, architectural, & architecture, aplusd museum, los angeles, 2017
going fluid: the cosmetic protocols of gangnam, istanbul design biennale, istanbul, 2016
selected lectures and symposia
fulfilled symposium (lecture by miles gertler on behalf of common accounts), knowlton school of architecture, ohio state university, columbus, 2020
wishful tropics (lecture by common accounts), alserkal, dubai, november 2018
max out (lecture by common accounts), presented by spaingsd, harvard graduate school of design, cambridge, november 2018
the intergenerational path, panel discussion presented by imago mundi and the fondazione benetton, onsite gallery, ocad university, toronto, november 2018
digesting materiality: a disorderly colloquium (contribution by common accounts), princeton university school of architecture, princeton, may 2018
dead bodies in the living room (lecture by common accounts), cornell university aap, ithaca, february 2018
gangnam, muscle, and death: ritualistic protocols for online urbanism (lecture by common accounts), at superhumanity: post-labor, psychopathology, plasticity symposiun. organized by e-flux architecture and the national museum of modern and contemporary art, seoul, october 2017
going fluid (lecture by common accounts), soho house istanbul, turkey, october 2016
closer each day: the architecture of everyday death (lecture by common accounts), group chat, vol. four, toronto, june 2016
awards
the architectural league prize for young architects + designers, 2023
arts abroad travel grant, canada council for the arts, 2023, 2017
the suzanne kolarik underwood prize, princeton university, 2016
the henry adams a.i.a. certificate, princeton university, 2016
ontario association of architects third year prize, university of waterloo, 2011
jo beglo book prize, university of waterloo, 2011
residencies
palazzo monti, june 2023
teaching
university of toronto daniels faculty, sessional lecturer, spring 2018-present
cornell university aap, visiting lecturer, manhattan studio, fall 2018
university of waterloo school of architecture, adjunct professor, cambridge, fall 2017
selected texts
planet fitness (by common accounts), supplement to log 47: overcoming carbon form, november 2019
collection as such, catalogue essay, ‘pictures’ by brian rideout, tile blush, september 2019