Ron Benner
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Re-viewed,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
2003 Trans/mission: Vectors,
Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.
2003-02 Trans/mission: African Vectors, Oakville
Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.
2002 Photographs 1997-2002,
Colour by Schubert, London, Ontario.
1999 Capital Remains,
London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario.
1999 The Commodification of
Life, public art project, 401 Richmond Street Building,
Toronto, Ontario.
(on-going).
1997/01 Trans/mission: Corn Vectors, University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1997/01 The Commodification of Life, public project,
Ontario New Democratic Party Convention,
Hamilton
Convention Centre, Hamilton, Ontario.
1997 In Digestion - Recent
Acquisitions, London Regional Art & Historical Museums, London,
Ontario.
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.
1995 ANTHRO-APOLOGIES, Peru
1979-80, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1995 All That Has Value,
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1992 ¿Valia La Pena?/
Natívas De Las Américas, Billboard Installation, La Carboneria
Sevilla, Spain.
1991 Selected Works 1976-90,
Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montréal, Québec.
1989 Ron Benner: Other Lives,
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.(curated by Matthew Teitelbaum)
1988 Watercolours and Photo
Works, studio exhibition, London Ontario.
1988 Bahia de Cochinos/ Bay
of Pigs, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario.
1988 Ron Benner: Other Lives,
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
(Curated by Matthew Teitelbaum)
1985 Erie é place of the puma,
railway underpass installation, Wellington Street, London, Ontario.
1985 Recent Work, YYZ,
Toronto, Ontario.
1984 Recent Work, Alternate
Space, 515 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
1984 ¿Como se llama
... ?/How are you called...?, Galería Agora-DIF, Merida Yucatan,
Mexico.
1984 Watercolours:
Mexico Cuba, 1983/ 84, Auberge du Petit Prince, London, Ontario.
1984 Erie é place of the puma,
cliff-face installation, Pearce Park, Lake Erie, Ontario.
1983 ¿Como se llama..?/
How are you called..? McIntosh Gallery, University of Western
Ontario, London,
Ontario.
1983 Watercolours: Lake Erie,
Mexico, Newfoundland.
1982-83 Auberge du Petit Prince, London, ON.
1981 ANTHRO-APOLOGIES,
Peru, 1979/80, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario.
1981 Anthro-Apologies/Cultural
Schizophrenia, Peru, 1979-80, Forest City Gallery, London,
Ontario.
1981 Watercolours 1975/ 81,
Auberge du Petit Prince, London, Ontario.
1980 And when your streets
are empty, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario.
1978 Asado é through the eyes
of young sheep, Véhicule Gallery, Montréal, Québec.
1978 Asado é through the eyes
of young sheep, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario.
1977 Photographic Work 1975/
76.
1974 Recent Work, studio
exhibition, London, Ontario.
1973 Recent Work, Trajectory
Gallery, London, Ontario.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Gateways & Gardens,
(Trans/mission: Still Life), Grosvenor Lodge, University of
Western Ontario,
London, Ontario.
2003 Looking Left, Articule,
Montréal, Québec.
2003 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.
2002 To Eat or Not To Eat,
Art Centre of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
2002 Out There is Somewhere:
The Arctic in Pictures, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
2001 Continuities, Art
Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
2001 Pathways, McIntosh
Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
2000 Logo City, Blackwood
Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario.
1999 Case Studies: Still Life,
York Quay Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
1998 Fundamental Freedoms:
The Artist and Human Rights, The National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario.
1998 Layers, Wynick/Tuck
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1998 Orientations, McIntosh
Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1998 Texte Counter - Text,
Thielsen Gallery, London, Ontario. In conjunction with
"Art History & Textuality"
session,
co-chaired by John O' Brian and Susan Douglas, Canadian University
Art Association
Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1998 Fieldworks (Trans/mission:
Papaya Vectors), Greenhouses, Department of Plant
Sciences, an ArtLab
project, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1998 Temps composé:
La Donation Maurice Forget, Musée d'Art de Joliette, Québec.
1998 Freedom, Diversity, Pluralism,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
1998 All That Has Value,
Covent Garden Market, London, Ontario.
1998 A Gift for India,
Sahmat, New Delhi, India. (touring).
1998 Foodculture (Transmission:
Corn Vectors), ArtLab project, (curated by Barbara Fischer),
University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario.
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.
(national touring
exhibition, curated by Marnie Fleming).
1995 AGW Southwest Biennial,
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. (guest juror: Jessica Bradley)
1995 Artistsé Gardens,
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 Recent Acquisitions,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
1994 Artistsé Gardens,
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
1993 Temporal Borders,
Image and Site, Galerie Wart Leonard, and Bina Ellen Art Gallery,
Concordia University,
Montreal, Québec.
1993 A Cup for a Cup, Forest
City Gallery and Valdi's Food Store, London, Ontario.
1993-03 Artistsé Gardens, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
(on-going artist project).
1993 A Brief Topography,
Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario.
1993 Common Ground, Open
Space, Victoria, British Columbia.
1992 Travelling Theory,
National Gallery, Amman, Jordan.
1992 Travelling Theory, McIntosh
Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1992 Okanata, Woodland
Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario.
1991 In Control
(billboard project, curated by Lorenzo Buj), Artcite, Windsor, Ontario.
1991 Okanata, A Space/
Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 Mois de la Photo - As
the Crow Flies, Maison de la Culture du Plateau, Montréal, Québec.
1991 War, Media and the "New
World Order," C.I.A.C, Montréal, Québec, and Artcite,
Windsor, Ontario.
1990 The Salvage Paradigm
(curated by Janice Gurney), YYZ and Wynick/ Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 Regionalism in Canadian
Art ,Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
(Curated
by Sheila Butler)
1989 The Polysemos of Contemporary
Photography, Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montréal, Québec.
1989 Two Works: Inti Raymi
and Woman and Manta, Cross Cultural Learner Center, London, Ontario.
1988 Memory Track, Walter
Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta (Curated by Helga Pakasaar).
1988 London/ Havana Exchange,
Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
1987 Invitational Exhibition,
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1985 Drawing Exhibition,
Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario.
1985 Artists Against Intervention
in Central America, Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario.
1985 Riot/ Calm/ Luxury,
Art Gallery of Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario. (Curated by Oliver Girling)
1985 The Artist Collects,
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario.
1984 New City of Sculpture,
Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario.
1984 How to die twice,
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
1983 Benner/ Lake/ Reitzenstein,
an Art Gallery of Ontario "Artist With Their Work" exhibition,
Artspace, Peterborough,
Ontario.
1983 Disarmament exhibition,
Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario.
1980 Merida/ London Exchange,
Galería Fonapas, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
1979 Gallery Artists, Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario.
1978 Forest City Gallery Artists,
St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario.
1978 Performance, Art Gallery
of Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.
1977 Forest City Gallery/ A
Space Exchange, A Space, Toronto, Ontario.
1976 Selected London Sculpture,
London Art Gallery, London, Ontario.
1976 Tom Benner/ Ron Benner:
Selected Works 1972/ 76, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
1976 Tom Benner/ Ron Benner:
Selected Works 1972/ 76, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of St. Thomas/ Elgin, St. Thomas, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Casa De Las Americas, Havana, Cuba
London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Musée d'Art de Joliette, Québec
Museum London, London. Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
VISITING ARTIST / LECTURES
2003 Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe,
Québec
2002 University of Salamanca,
Salamanca, Spain
2002 Museion, Gotenborg, Sweden
2002 Oakville Galleries, Oakville,
Ontario
2001 Harbourfront Centre, Toronto,
Ontario
1999 Okanagan University College
and Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
1999 London Regional Art and Historical
Museums, London, Ontario
1998 University of Toronto, School
of Landscape Architecture, Toronto, Ontario
1998 York University, Faculty
of Environmental Studies, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Presentation House Gallery,
North Vancouver, British Columbia
1997 London Regional Art Gallery,
London, Ontario
1997 University of Windsor, Department
of Visual Arts, Windsor, Ontario
1997 Oakville Galleries, Oakville,
Ontario
1997 Lalit Kala Academy, Calcutta,
India
1995 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
Ontario
1995 Fanshawe College, Visual
Arts Department, London, Ontario
1995 University of Western Ontario,
Department of Anthropology, London, Ontario
1995 McIntosh Gallery, University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
1993 Visual Arts Ontario, conference,
Artistsé Housing, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
1992 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Emily Carr College of Art,
Vancouver, British Columbia
1990 Banff Centre for the Arts,
Banff, Alberta
1990 Centre for the Arts, Owen
Sound, Ontario
1989 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor,
Ontario
1988 Sheridan College, Oakville,
Ontario
1988 Dundas Valley School of Arts,
Dundas, Ontario
1988 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
1988 Instituto Superior de Arte,
Havana, Cuba
1988 Casa De Las Americas, Havana, Cuba
1988 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1988 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1987 University of Guelph, Guelph,
Ontario
1987 Banff School of Fine Art,
Banff, Alberta
1983 Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
1981 University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario
1981 H.B. Beal Secondary School,
London, Ontario
1976 Artist in the Schools Programme,
London, Ontario
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Note: an asterisk (*) following an entry indicates an exhibition catalogue
or brochure.
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Benner, Ron. Native to the Americas. Inside cover, Borderlines, Toronto,
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Benner, Ron. State of the Art. Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario. 1983.
Benner, Ron. Tom Benner/ Ron Benner. Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal,
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