Ron Benner
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Ron with lilies. Photo Credit: Jamelie Hassan

Work Experience

PRESENT/UPCOMING
  • 2020 - 2021: Artist in Residence, School of Environmental Sciences, coordinated by independent curator and director of the program, Julie Rene De Cotret, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario.
  • 2010 - Present: Adjunct Research Professor, Visual Art Department, Western University, London, Ontario
  • 2009 - Present: Exhibition Preparator, Museum London, London, Ontario
  PAST
  • 1971-1979: Brakeman and conductor, The Norfolk and Western (Wabash) Railway and was a member of the United Transportation Union
  • ​1973: He began to travel frequently to Mexico, Central & South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia​

Education

  • 1974-1980: Studied Spanish in Mexico and Spanish and Quechua in Peru
  • 1969-1970: Agricultural Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

Ron Benner (born 1949) 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, Canada.

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London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.​

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  • About
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    • Curatorial & Related Work
  • Exhibitions
    • Trans/mission Series
    • Transend: Meeting Room
    • Ron Benner: 3 Questions
    • All That Has Value Series
    • In Digestion Series
    • The Commodification of Life Series
  • Media
    • Exhibition Catalogues
    • Print Reviews
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