Raphael Goldchain
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- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Fine Arts
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: December 2003 - January 2007
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Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Fine Arts
Professor- Honours Bachelor of Photography
Higher Education
Rafael
Goldchain
Toronto, Canada Area
Teacher/Photographer.
14 years of teaching at Sheridan College
28 years of experience as an artist-photographer with a variety of experience.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 Beautifully Broken, O'Born Contemporarty Gallery, Toronto
2009 O’Born Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
2008 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
2008 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2007 BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, California
2007 Eleanor London Biblioteque Publique Cote St. Luc, Montreal
2006 Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick
2005 Rossella Junck Gallery, Venice, Italy
2005 Rossella Junck Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 The McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London
2002 Museum Synagoge Gröbzig, Gröbzig, Germany
2001 The Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2001 National Library of Chile / Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago
2001 Verein an der Synagoge Bonn, Germany
2000 Europa Haus, Arnstadt, Germany
2000 Begegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge, Erfurt, Germany
2000 The Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto
1997 Gallery Mistral, Montreal, Quebec
1997 The Photo Eclipse Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
1993 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
1992 The Photography Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Le Mois de la Photo a Montréal
1991 Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990 The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1990 Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1990 Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
1990 The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec
1989 Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1989 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
1989 Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario
1988 The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1988 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
1987 SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1987 Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
1983 Canadian Centre for Photography & Film, Toronto, Ontario
Specialties: Photography education
Portrait Photography
Fine Art
Experience
Sheridan College
Professor
Raphael worked at Sheridan College as a Professor
Sheridan College
Professor - Program Coordinator
Teach photographic digital applications
Worked with a team to develop a Bachelors Degree in Photography
Coordinate the daily activities in the Photography programWomen's College Hospital
Medical Photographer
Production of photographic images for research and education.
Rafael Goldchain - Photographer
Photographer
Artwork
Education
University of Toronto
Master of Arts - MA
Art History
Ryerson University
BAA
Photograhic Arts
Bachelor of Applied Arts - PhotographyYork University
M.F.A.
Visual Arts - Photography
Master of Fine Arts - Visual Arts
Publications
I Am My Family
Princeton Architectural Press
Old family photo albums are fascinating. If you're lucky enough to own one, you've probably spent hours poring overhalf-faded black-and-white portraits of your ancestors, searching for similarities in their facial features and wondering whattheir lives might have been. Unfortunately, not every family has such easy access to their own history. Photographer Rafael Goldchain's Polish-Jewish ancestors emigrated to South America in the 1930s, and many others perished in Polandduring the Naziregime. Also lost in the turmoil of war and emigration were most of the portraits of his extended family.When Goldchain became a parent himself, he decided to make up for this lack of evidence and recreate the lost generations of the past, in the present. Rafael Goldchain's I Am My Family is a family album of traditional portrait photographs with an unconventional twist: the only subject is Goldchain himself. In an elaborate process involving genealogical research, the use of makeup, hair styling, costume, and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors and captures their personifications with the camera. Taking some liberties with historical accuracy, Goldchain has assembled a fascinating cast of characters: from his short-story-writing grandfather, to his great-aunts Pola and Fela, to the Rabbi Gur's nephew in wedding dress, Goldchain reinvents himself over and over again. These beautifully reproduced self-portraits trace the evolution of Jewish culture from tradition to modernity and invite us to engage the history of a family decimated and scattered by the traumatic events of the 20th century. Featuring an insightful essay by curator Martha Langford, the portraits are complemented by a selection of the archival images on which they are based as wellas selections from the artist's handwritten sketchbooks. (From Amazon.ca)
