Brandon Poole is an artist, filmmaker, and PhD Candidate at McGill University’s School of Architecture, where he is a Vadasz Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. With a background in journalism and philosophy, his practice and research examines the entwined histories and speculative futures of architecture, simulation, and the image, while his films document the folkloric and vernacular constructions of place. He holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours, with Distinction) from the University of Victoria. His work has been exhibited at Dazibao (Montreal), the Toronto Biennial, the Art Museum (University of Toronto), Polygon Gallery  (Vancouver), and Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC). His films have screened at EXiS (Seoul), Mimesis (US), non_syntax (Tokyo/Taipei), Antimatter (Victoria), Suspaustus Laikas (Vilnius), and Iowa City Docs, among others. He is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at the University of Victoria.

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Unless the Eye Catch Fire
Screening, Mimesis Documentary Festival , Aug 5th, 2025

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Unless the Eye Catch Fire
Screening, Iowa City International Documentary Festival, April 27th, 2025

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