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Ron Benner | |
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| Born | 1949 |
| Education | University of Guelph |
| Occupations | Contemporary artist |
| Years active | 1970-present |
| Partner | Jamelie Hassan |
Ron Benner (born 1949) [1] is an internationally recognized Canadian artist whose longstanding practice investigates the history and political economics of food cultures. He is also a gardener and writer who currently lives and works in London, Ontario. [2]
Ron Benner studied agricultural engineering for one year at the University of Guelph (1969–70). Finding himself ethically opposed to bioengineering, he began to travel and research the politics of food, and work as an artist in London, Ontario.
From 1975 through 1981, Ron was a member of the Forest City Artists' Association, and was manager of the Forest City Gallery in 1980–81. In 1983 he co-founded the Embassy Cultural House and served on the board until 1990. Co-organized the Mérida/London exchange (1980/81), as well as the Havana/London exchange (1988). In 1989 he was an artist/observer of the 3rd Havana Biennial.
In 2010 he was appointed Adjunct Research Professor in the Visual Arts Department, Western University. [3] [2]
His mixed media photographic installations are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hart House (The University of Toronto), Museum London (London, Ontario), McIntosh Gallery (The University of Western Ontario), The Canada Council Art Bank and the Casa de Las Americas (Havana, Cuba). [4]
Ron's photographic garden installations have been installed in locations across Canada and in Salamanca and Sevilla, Spain. Involved with long-term and immersive research and physical investigation, these photos and species trace back the colonial history, militarization of food, and map plants' economic and aesthetic values.
In 2020, Museum London documented Ron's garden in its 14th year entitled As the Crow Flies .
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Sylvie Bélanger was a Canadian interdisciplinary artist using sound, video, photography and installation. She lived and worked in Toronto as an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo until her retirement in 2017. Where after, she moved to Montréal.
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Marian Penner Bancroft is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.
Bonnie Devine is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently an associate professor at OCAD University and the founding chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.
Susan Dobson (born September 19, 1965) is a Canadian artist based in Guelph, Ontario. She is best known for her photographs and installations, many focusing on the theme of urban landscape and suburban culture.
Jamelie Hassan is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, lecturer, writer and independent curator.
April Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, photographer, teacher and curator whose practice includes various medias, from photography, film, video and installation.
Constance "Colette" Joyce Urban was a Canadian/American artist known for performance art, sculpture and installation. Her work questioned social conventions, gender roles, and the relationship between spectator and performer, as well as consumer culture and the everyday with a disarming and humorous tone. Urban was a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada until 2006, when she relocated to the Bay of Islands, in Western Newfoundland and based herself in the communities of Meadows and McIvers, Newfoundland to develop Full Tilt Creative Centre, an artist residency, organic farm and exhibition venue. In November 2012, after a lengthy period of mysterious pain, Urban was diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer. She died at her home in McIvers in 2013.
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Jeff Thomas (1956) is an Iroquois photographer, curator, and cultural theorist who works and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Sky Glabush is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario. He has created works in a number of media, but is best known as a painter. He is an associate professor of visual art at the University of Western Ontario. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Janice Gurney is a Canadian contemporary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree and later received a Master of Visual Studies degree from University of Toronto in 2007 with a collaborative degree in Book History and Print Culture. She went on to get a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University in 2012.
Catharine Margaret Mastin is a Canadian curator. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on gender and women's art practices. She has worked at the Art Gallery of Windsor in Ontario and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. At the Art Gallery of Windsor, she was curator, arts administrator and executive director (2010-2020). She is an Adjunct Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Art History at York University. Mastin also curated the exhibition "Franklin Carmichael: Portrait of a Spiritualist", an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa which toured Canada between 1999 and 2001.
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