Ron Benner
{{Short description|Canadian artist}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2020}}
{{notability|bio|date=September 2024}}
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| birth_date = 1949
| birth_place = London, Ontario, Canada
| education = University of Guelph
| occupation = Contemporary artist
| years_active = 1970-present
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| partner = Jamelie Hassan
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Ron Benner (born 1949){{Cite web|url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/artist_info.html?link_id=173|title=CCCA Artist Profile for Ron Benner|website=ccca.concordia.ca|access-date=2020-04-16}} is a Canadian artist who investigates the history and political economics of food cultures. He is also a gardener and writer who currently lives and works in London, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/bios/benner_bio.html|title=Ron Benner, Bio|website=ccca.concordia.ca|access-date=2020-03-30}}
Early life and career
Benner studied agricultural engineering for one year at the University of Guelph (1969–70).{{fact|date=September 2024}} From 1975 through 1981, Benner was a member of the Forest City Artists' Association, and was manager of the Forest City Gallery in 1980–81.{{fact|date=September 2024}}
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In 2010 he was appointed Adjunct Research Professor in the Visual Arts Department, Western University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vac.ca/ronbenner.html|title=Ron Benner - Trans/mission: Barley-Corn-Maize|website=Visual Arts Centre of Clarington|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.cacnart.com/ron-benner|title=Ron Benner|website=cacnart|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
Garden installations
Benner's photographic garden installations have been installed in locations in Canada and in Salamanca and Sevilla, Spain.{{fact|date=September 2024}}
In 2020, Museum London documented Benner's garden in its 14th year entitled [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdJP2YJOiw As the Crow Flies].
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2019 Trans/mission: Barley – Corn – Maize, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON, a year-long site-specific installation responding to the architecture and history of the former barley mill, curator Sandy Saad{{Cite web|url=https://www.vac.ca/ronbenner.html|title=Ron Benner - Trans/mission: Barley-Corn-Maize|website=Visual Arts Centre of Clarington|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2017- Trans/mission: Native to the Americas, permanent photographic/garden installation, sunken garden of the Wilfrid Laurier Library, organized by the Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON{{Cite web|url=https://library.wlu.ca/events/exhibition-transend-meeting-room|title=Exhibition: Transend: Meeting Room|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
- 2017 Transend: Meeting Room, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, curator Suzanne Luke
- 2016/17 Trans/mission: 101, photographic/garden installation, [https://kwag.ca/ Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery], Kitchener, ON, curator Crystal Mowry presented in concert with CAFKA 16 (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener Area){{Cite web|url=https://kwag.ca/content/ron-benner-transmission-101|title=Ron Benner // Trans/mission: 101|first=S|last=Mitchell|date=2017-05-17|website=kwag.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2015 Ron Benner: 3 Questions, McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, ON, curator Julian Haladyn{{Cite web|url=http://mcintoshgallery.ca/exhibitions/past/2015.html|title=2015|website=mcintoshgallery.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2015 All That Has Value, 3 guerrilla garden installations, in collaboration with CUPE, London, ON
- 2015 In Digestion, Museum London, London, ON{{Cite web|url=http://museumlondon.ca/exhibitions/in-digestion|title=Exhibitions - Museum London|website=museumlondon.ca|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2013 Insubstantial Equivalence, photographic/garden installation, curator Peter Dykhuis, on the university campus in partnership with the agricultural faculty and the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS{{Cite web|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2013/10/03/food-for-thought.html|title=Food for thought|website=Dalhousie News|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2012-15 Cuitlacoche – Your Disease Our Delicacy, photographic/garden installation, curator Su Ying Lee, Hart House and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON{{Cite web|url=https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/ron-benner-disease-delicacy-cuitlacoche/|title=Ron Benner: Your Disease Our Delicacy (cuitlacoche)|website=Art Museum at the University of Toronto|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2010 /10, photographic/garden installation, curator Vicky Chainey Gagnon, site project on campus, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Québec{{Cite web|url=http://www.foreman.ubishops.ca/fileadmin/foreman_documents/images/exhibitions/2010-2011/ron_benner/Press_Release_Ron_Benner_FINAL.pdf|title=/10, A Garden Project by Ron Benner|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
- 2008 Trans/mission: Blé d’Inde, photographic/garden installation, curator Hannah Claus, Axené07, Gatineau, Québec{{Cite journal|last1=Thomas|first1=Jeff|last2=Singh Gill|first2=Rajdeep|date=2008|title=Trans/mission : Blé d'Inde : Ron Benner|journal = Axe Néo 7, Gatineay, Quebec |url=https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/20832}}
- 2005- As the Crow Flies, photographic/water garden installation, Museum London, London, ON{{Cite web|url=https://ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.com/2008/07/as-crow-flies-ron-benners-garden.html|title=Arts Crossing Borders: As the Crow Flies Ron Benner's Garden Installation Raises Awareness About Unequal Distribution of Food|last=Mclean|first=Cheryl|date=2008-07-16|website=Arts Crossing Borders|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2003-02 Trans/mission: African Vectors, [http://www.oakvillegalleries.com Oakville Galleries], Oakville, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://blog.oakvillegalleries.com/tag/ron-benner/|title=Ron Benner {{!}} Oakville Galleries|last=Zanetti|first=Maria|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1997/01 Trans/mission: Corn Vectors, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/transmission-corn-vectors|title=Trans/mission: Corn Vectors|website=Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1996/95 All That Has Value, national touring exhibition: McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario and Covent Garden Market, London, Ontario; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan. Curated by Peter White.{{Cite web|url=https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/ron-benner-all-that-has-value/|title=Ron Benner: All That Has Value|date=2011-01-20|website=The Polygon|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://mcintoshgallery.ca/about/history.html|title=History - McIntosh Gallery - Western University|website=mcintoshgallery.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1995 ANTHRO-APOLOGIES, Peru 1979-80, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000842&rd=253495|title=Representations: YYZ in the 80s|website=www.virtualmuseum.ca|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1989 Ron Benner: Other Lives, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. Curated by Matthew Teitelbaum.{{Cite web|url=https://agw.ca/exhibition/43|title=Ron Benner: As dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
- 1988 Ron Benner: Other Lives, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Curated by Matthew Teitelbaum.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/ron-benner/|title=Ron Benner - AbeBooks|website=www.abebooks.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
Selected group exhibitions
- 2019 Enawendewin Project, Artspace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, curated by William Kingfisher{{Cite web|url=https://artspace-arc.org/exhibition/enawendewin-relationships/|title=enawendewin/relationships {{!}} Artspace|website=artspace-arc.org|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2018 Imago Mundi, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, curator [https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-valente-4b810332/?originalSubdomain=ca Francesca Valente]{{Cite web|url=https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/imago-mundi-%E2%80%94-great-and-north|title=Imago Mundi — Great and North|date=2018-08-16|website=OCAD University|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2016 Toronto: Tributes and Tributaries, 1971-1989, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, curator Wanda Nanibush{{Cite web|url=https://ago.ca/publication/toronto-tributes-tributaries-1971-1989|title=Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971–1989|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|language=en|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2015 The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: The Inside and Outside of Being, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China{{Cite web|url=http://www.todayartmuseum.com/enexhdetails.aspx?id=543|title=Today Art Museum {{!}} The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art Inside&Outside of Being|website=www.todayartmuseum.com|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2014 The World is a Garden while the Walls are the State, Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner, A Space Gallery, Toronto, curator Vicky Moufawad-Paul{{Cite web|url=https://www.aspacegallery.org/index.php?m=programdetails&id=755|title=A Space Gallery|website=www.aspacegallery.org|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2014 The Transformation of Landscape Art in Canada: The Inside and Outside of Being, curators Zhou Yan and Yang Chao, off-site project, Great Tang All Day Mall, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, China{{Cite web|url=http://www.xianartmuseum.org/exhibit.asp?id=477|title=.:::西安美术馆-景观之变：加拿大艺术中人与风景的改造:::.|website=www.xianartmuseum.org|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2012 Bread & Butter, Jackman Humanities Institute/Hart House, University of Toronto, ON, curator Sandy Saad in collaboration with Barbara Fischer{{Cite web|url=https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/bread-and-butter/|title=Bread and Butter|website=Art Museum at the University of Toronto|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2006 Not Sheep : New Urban Enclosures and Commons, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC{{Cite web|url=http://artspeak.ca/archive/|title=Archive {{!}} Artspeak|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2004 Home & Away, (Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, John Tamblyn & Larry Towell), Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON{{Cite web|url=https://gibsongallery.com/news/2016-year-review/|title=2016 Year in Review|website=Michael Gibson Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-03}}
- 2003 [http://www.expression.qc.ca/orange/ Orange (markets)], Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.
- 2003 Bookworks on the Fence, organized by Red Tree Collective, Toronto, Ontario; Epicentro, Mexico City, Mexico and Museum of Vera Cruz, Mexico.{{Cite web|url=http://www.redtreecollective.ca/home.htm|title=red tree home|website=www.redtreecollective.ca|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 2002 To Eat or Not To Eat, Art Centre of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/11/20/30501.html|title=To Eat or Not To Eat - Centro De Arte Salamanca - Absolutearts.com|website=www.absolutearts.com|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1998 Fundamental Freedoms: The Artist and Human Rights, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/fundamental-freedoms-video-perspectives-on-human-rights|title=Fundamental Freedoms: Video Perspectives on Human Rights.|website=www.gallery.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1998 Foodculture (Transmission: Corn Vectors), ArtLab project, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Curated by Barbara Fischer.{{Cite book|last=Fischer|first=Barbara|title=Foodculture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art|publisher=YYZBooks|year=1999|isbn=0920397271|location=|pages=}}
- 1997 Southwest Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. Curated by Robin Metcalfe
- 1997 Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario in collaboration with Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa. Curated by Marnie Fleming.{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Track Records : Trains and Contemporary Photography|publisher=Oakville Galleries|year=1997|isbn=0921027702|location=|pages=}}
- 1995 Artists' Gardens, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.{{Cite web|url=http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/visualarts/gardens/ArtistsGardens.pdf|title=artists' gardens - Harbourfront Centre|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
- 1994 Artists' Gardens, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
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