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Trans/Mission Series

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Trans/mission: Barley – Corn – Maize
Title: Trans/mission: Barley-Corn-Maize
Year: 2019
Institution: Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario
Curator: Sandy Saad


Trans/mission: Barley – Corn – Maize was a year-long site-specific installation responding to the architecture and history of the former barley mill. His installation offered a visual account of his extensive investigation to trace back the root origin of our food and finding its migration rooted in colonialism and imperialism. Concerned with seed circulation and farming methods, local community and globalization.
  • Click here for the link to the catalogue.​


Title:  Trans/mission: Native to the Americas
​Year: 2017 – on-going
Institution: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
Curator: 
Suzanne Luke 

Trans/mission: Native to the Americas is a permanent photographic/garden installation in the sunken garden of The Wilfrid Laurier Library. ​

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Trans/mission: 101
​Title: Trans/mission:101
Year: 2016/17
Institution: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Curator: Crystal Mowry


​Trans/mission:101 is a photographic/garden installation, and was p
resented in concert with CAFKA 16 (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener Area)

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Trans/mission: Blé d’Inde
Title: Trans/mission: Blé d’Inde
Year: 2008
Institution: Axené07, Gatineau, Québec
Curator: Hannah Claus

Trans/mission: Blé d’Inde is photographic/garden installation.

Title: Trans/mission: Still Life
Year: 2005-2009
Institution: Grosvenor Lodge, University of Western University, London, Ontario
Curator: McIntosh Gallery

Trans/mission: Still Life is photographic/garden installations which was co-ordinated through the McIntosh Gallery.

Title: Trans/mission: Pineapple Vectors
Year: 2005
Institution: Telegraph House, Port Stanley, Ontario
Curator:

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Trans/mission: Vectors
Title: Trans/mission: Vectors
Year: 2003
Institution: Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
Curator: Marcel Blouin


​Title: Trans/mission: African Vectors
Year: 2002-2004
Institution: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Curator: Marnie Fleming

Trans/mission: African Vectors is a photographic/garden installation.

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Trans/mission: Corn Vectors
Title: Trans/mission: Corn Vectors
Year: 1998-2001
Institution: McIntosh Gallery, University of  Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Curator: Barbara Fisher

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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