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

typical oasis

time out for your side hassle and other cardboard works

rare world

the port and the fall of icarus

superlith and seven

signal structures

cannibals

images 2020+

common accounts (co-directed with Igor Bragado)

texts



exhibitions: independent

solo

typical oasis, corkin gallery, 2023-2024

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

age of you, curated by douglas coupland, hans ulrich obrist, shumon basar, museum of contemporary art, Toronto, 2019

when the sun departs for a new horizon, corkin gallery, toronto, 2019

the port and the fall of icarus, in work, body, leisure, dutch national pavilion, venice architecture biennale, 2018

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

foodscapes. la casa de la arquitectura. madrid, 2024

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

cross circuits, (lecture by miles gertler in response to aria dean’s abattoir, usa!, the power plant contemporary art gallery, march 2024

resourcing anatomies: the death report (lecture by common accounts), crunch series, the bartlett school of architecture, university college london, february 2024

common accounts (lecture by miles gertler), league prize 2023 night 1: miles gertler, sarah aziz & lindsey krug, the architectural league of new york, june 2023

common accounts (lecture by miles gertler), brown bag lecture series, mcgill university, march 2023

max out (lecture by miles gertler), taubman college of architecture, university of michigan, november 2022

in conversation: miles gertler and ala roushan, the power plant contemporary art gallery, july 2022

closer each day (lecture by common accounts), sekisui house, kuma lab, university of tokyo, march 2022

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

gertler, miles. “the mayrit bienal exhibits an animated madrid,” office magazine, june 2024.

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “honeymooners: an interview with antoni miralda.” pin-up magazine, january 2024.

gertler, miles. “cleaning up.” fulfilled, edited by ashley bigham. san francisco: applied research & design / oro publishers, 2021.

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “wishful tropics: common accounts.” the alerskal ecology reader, edited by ali karimi and hamed bukhamseen. dubai: al serkal, 2021.

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “planet fitness: anthropo-frontierism and the survival of the fittest.” 032c, december 2019

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “planet fitness.” supplement to log 47: overcoming carbon form, november 2019

gertler, miles. “collection as such.” catalogue essay, ‘pictures’ by brian rideout, tile blush, september 2019

gertler, miles. “oblique white lines.” avery review issue 37, march 2019

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “going fluid.” in superhumanity: post-labor, psychopathology, plasticity, edited by nick axel, beatriz colomina, nikolaus hirsch, jihoi lee, anton vidokle, and mark wigley. new york: actar, 2018.

bragado, igor and gertler, miles (common accounts). “three ordinary funerals.” in imminent commons: the expanded city, edited by alejandro zaera-polo and jeffrey anderson. new york: actar, 2017.