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  • UP-COMING
  • 2021: Gardenship & State,  Museum London, London, Ontario, Curators: Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas
  • 2020: Enawenndewin/Relationships,  McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Curator: William Kingfisher and Pamela Edmonds

  • 2019: Enawendewin Project,  Artspace Gallery,  Peterborough, Ontario, Curator: William Kingfisher
  • 2019: The World is a Garden: Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner,  SB Contemporary, Windsor, Ontario 
  • 2019: 401 West! Portrait of a Region,  Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario 
  • 2018: Imago Mundi, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Curator: Francesca Valente
  • 2017: Imago Mundi, Venice, Italy, Curator: Francesca Valente
  • 2016: Toronto: Tributes and Tributaries, 1971-1989,  Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Curator Wanda Nanibush
  •  2016: A Line Has Two Sides, Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Art Lab, Western University, London, Ontario, Curator: Susan Edelstein
  • 2015: The Second Silk Road International Festival, Xi'an, China
  • 2015: The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: The Inside and Outside of Being, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2014: The World is a Garden while the Walls are the State, Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Curator: Vicky Moufawad-Paul
  •  2014: The Transformation of Landscape Art in Canada: The Inside and Outside of Being, Great Tang All Day Mall, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an, China, Curators: Zhou Yan and Yang Chao
  • 2014:  Futurity & Photography, Westland Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Curator: Troy Ouellette
  • 2014: Resistance, Manif d'art 7, Quebec City Biennial, off-site project in bus shelters in two locations in Quebec City, Quebec Curator: Vicky Chainey Gagnon
  • 2013: Sample, Faculty and Staff Exhibition,  Art Lab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Curator: Susan Edelstein
  • 2013: The World is a Garden, 2 person exhibition with Jamelie Hassan, Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa, Oaxaca, Mexico, Curator: Freddy Aguilar
  • 2012: Bread & Butter Jackman Humanities Institute/Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario , Curator: Sandy Saad in collaboration with Barbara Fischer)
  • 2012: Place Markers:Mapping Locations and Probing group exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Curator: Peter Dykhuis
  • 2011: Windsor Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario , Curator: Ian Baxter
  •  2011: Where will you be in eternity? Thielsen Gallery, London, Ontario, Curators:Jamelie Hassan and Jens Thielsen
  • 2010: Nuit Blanche Retrospective, Bank of Nova Scotia Building, Toronto, Ontario
  •  2010: Growing Histories, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Québec, Curators: Genevieve Chevalier and Vicky Chainey Gagnon
  •  2010: Natural.Disaster, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Curator: Jessica Wyman
  •  2010: Recent Acquistions, The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • 2009:  Home/land & Security, Render Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Curator: Jeff Thomas
  • 2009: Orange: Aesthetics & Ethics,  Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Curator: Marcel Blouin
  • 2006 – 08: Orientalism & Ephemera, Art Metropole, Toronto, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa; Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, BC.;  Art Gallery of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchwan, Curator: Jamelie Hassan
  • 2007: Bordercases: The Wall The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • 2006:  Science in Art, UQAM, Montréal, Québec
  •  2006: La Nuit Blanche, artists project : corn roast/ maize barbacoa, City of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Curators: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale and Chrysanne Stathacos
  •  2006: Art Against War, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Curator: Exhibiting artist and co-coordinator with Don Monet and Jamelie Hassan
  •  2006:  Not Sheep : New Urban Enclosures and Commons, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 2005: Beyond Bounds: Art in London 1970 -1987, Museum London, London, Ontario (Curator: Robert McKaskell) 
  •  2005: Homerun, Recent Acquistions, Museum London, London, Ontario
  • 2005: Paradigms of Citizenship, McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
  • 2004: Open Air 2:Gateways & Gardens, McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
  • 2004: Home & Away, (Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, John Tamblyn & Larry Towell), Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
  • 2004; Outline in Black, Thielsen Gallery, London, Ontario
  • 2003  Looking Left, Articule, Montréal, Québec
  • 2003: Bookworks on the Fence, organized by Red Tree Collective, Toronto, Epicentro, Mexico City and Museum of Vera Cruz, Mexico
  • 2003: Orange, Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
  • 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 (Curator: Barbara Fischer)
  • 1999: Case Studies: Still Life, York Quay Centre, Harbourfront, 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, U.W.O., London, Ontario
  • 1998: Texte Counter - Text, Thielsen Gallery, London, Ontario (In conjunction with “Art History & Textuality” session, co-chaired by John O’Brian & 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, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario                                              
  • 1998: Temps composés: 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,  University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Curator: Barbara Fischer
  • 1997: Southwest Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Curator: 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, Curator: Marnie Fleming
  • 1995: AGW Southwest Biennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Curator: Jessica Bradley
  • 1995: Artists' Gardens,  Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1994: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 1993 Temporal Borders, Image and Site, Galerie d'Art Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery,  Université
  • 1993: Concordia, Montréal, Quebéc
  • 1993: A Cup for a Cup, Forest City Gallery & Valdi's Food Store, London, Ontario (Curator: David Merritt)
  • 1993 – 03: Artists' Gardens, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1993: Common Ground, Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia
  • 1992: Travelling Theory, National Gallery, Amman, Jordan and McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
  • 1992: Okanata, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
  • 1991: In Control, billboard project, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario (Curator: Lorenzo Buj) 
  • 1991: Okanata, A Space/Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1991: As the Crow Flies - Le Mois de la Photo,Maison de la Culture du Plateau, Montréal, Québec (Curator: Marcel Bluoin)​
  • 1991: War, Media and the "New World Order", C.I.A.C, Montréal, Québec & Artcite, Windsor, Ontario
  • 1990: The Salvage Paradigm, YYZ, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Curator: Janice Gurney)
  • 1989: The Polysemos of Contemporary Photography, Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montréal, Québec        
  • 1988: Memory Track, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Curator: Helga Pakasaar
  • 1988: London/Havana Exchange, Casa De Las Américas, Havana, Cuba
  • 1988: Two Works - Inti Raymi & Woman and Manta, Cross Cultural Learner Center, London, Ontario
  • 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, The Art Gallery of Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, Curator: Oliver Girling
  • 1985: The Artist Collects, The London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Curator Matthew Teitelbaum
  • 1984: New City of Sculpture, Gallery 76, Toronto, Ontario, Curators: Robert Weins and David Clarkson
  • 1984: How to die twice, McIntosh Gallery, Univeristy 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, Galeria Fonapas, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
  • 1979: Gallery Artists, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
  • 9178: Forest City Gallery Artists, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario
  • 1978: Performance, The 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 and Art​ Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 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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