Curriculum Vitae: Anne Ramsden

Born Kingston, Ontario. Lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, traditional and unceded territory of Snuneymuxw First Nation.

A printable PDF of Anne's CV is available.

Solo Exhibitions

2023

From its home of clay, Gabriola Arts and Heritage Centre, Gabriola, BC.

2019

Le temps qu'il faut/The Time It Takes, Occurrence, Montréal

2017

Les objets dans le miroir sont plus près qu'ils ne paraissent/Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Artexte, Montréal.

2016

Metal Objects, La Vitrine, Montréal.

2010

La Collection et le quotidien, Galerie SBC, Montréal.

2007

La Collection et le quotidien, Musée de Rimouski, Qc.

2005

Anastylosis: Photographs, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto.

2004

Telling Objects, Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norvège.

2004

Anastylose : photographies, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal.

2002

Anastylosis : Inventory, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge.

2001

Winter Garden, Swamp ward Window Project, Kingston, On.

2001-2002

Expose, 8 installations-vitrine, Artexte, Montréal.

2000

Anastylose : un inventaire, Galerie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

2000

Anastylose : un inventaire, Centre culturel de l’Univ. de Sherbrooke.   

1999

Anastylosis : Childhood, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

1998

Patina, Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec.

1997

Possession, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

1996

Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal. 

1994

Residence, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ont.

1992

Blind Spots, Front Gallery, Vancouver.

1990

Urban Geography, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.

1990

Urban Geography, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver. 

1990

Relations, Galerie Dazibao, Montréal.

1988

Relations, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. 

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Group Exhibitions

2023

Des territoires sous observation/Territorios bajo observacion, Museo Raul Anguiano (Festival Cultural de Mayo), Guadalajara, Mexico and Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico. 

2021

Rain Shadow, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo BC.

2021

Pandemical Loneliness, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, On.

2020

Garden Studies, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, On.

2018

Ampersand, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.

2018

GLUT, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

2017

The Hold, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston.

2016

Stare, Vancouver Art Gallery

2016

L'état des choses, Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski.

2015

Melancholy Bay, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

2015

Through A Window, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver.

2015

Sous-exposées, Galerie d'art Stewart Hall, Montréal.

2014

Hibernus, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto.

2014

Selective Memory: Artists in the Archive, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland.

2014

Porcelain: Breaking Tradition, Division Gallery, Arsenale, Toronto.

2013

De la porcelaine à l'oeuvre, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal.

2012

 Duo avec Laurent Craste, Galerie SAS, Toronto Art Fair.

2012

 Possession, Galerie SAS, Montréal. 

2012

 An Unregarded Art, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, On.

2011

 It takes everyone to know no one, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto.

2010

 Expansion, Galerie de L'UQÀM, Montréal.

2009

 Préoccupations: Photographic Explorations of the Grey Nuns Mother House, FOFA    Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal.

2009

 Spaces of the Image, Mois de la Photo de Montréal, 2009, Montréal.

2008    

Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto.

2007

Limits of Tolerance, Centre A, Vancouver

2007

Backlot, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver.  

2007

Libre-échange, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal.

2006             

Addressing Oakville, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.

2005

Butins, musées et autres curiosités, Galerie Horace, Sherbrooke, Qc.

2004

Past Imperfect,  Wignall Museum/Gallery, Rancho Cucamonga, California.

2002. 

Past Imperfect, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon

2001

Museopathy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ont.

2000

Image and Light, History and Influence, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver. 

2000

Intercept : Contemporary Works, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston.

2000

Human Nature, Vancouver Art Gallery.

1999

Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery.

1999

Possession, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

1999

Women Making Pictures, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.

1999

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa.

1999

Blue, Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary.

1998

Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

1997        

Sur l'expérience de la ville: interventions en milieu urbain, Galerie Optica, Montréal.

1997

Vancouver Perspectives, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,Taiwan.

1997

The View from Here, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.

1997

Road Movies in a Post-Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon.

1996

Vancouver Perspectives", Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.

1996

Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

1996

Digital Investigations", SFU Harbor Centre Gallery, Vancouver.

1996

Interventions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.

1995

Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal.

1994

Corpus",  Oakville Galleries, Oakville, On.

1993        

Social Studies/Still Lives", Mois de la photo, Montréal.

1993

Corpus, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alt.

1993

Corpus, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask..

1992

Standard Stopages, Cathedral Place, Vancouver.

1991

Public Domain, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

1991

Un archipel de désirs: Les artistes du Québec et la scène internationale, Musée du Québec, Québec, Qc.

1991

Legitimation, Galerie Vu, Québec, Qc.

1991

Legitimation, London Regional Art Gallery, London, On.

1990

Artropolis, Vancouver, B.C.

1990

Legitimation, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alt.

1990

Legitimation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1990

Transpositions, Vancouver Skytrain System, Vancouver, B.C.

1989

Legitimation, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal.

1989

Rebel Girls, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1989

Rebel Girls, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, On.

1988

Canadian Narrative Video, MoMA, New York.

1988        

AdVerse Practices, exposition d’art public, Vancouver, B.C.

1987

Active Process, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C.

1986

Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris.

1986

E.L.A.C., Lyon.

1985

Fascination with the Other, A.R.C., Toronto.

1985

Visual Facts, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow.

1985

Visual Facts, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

1985

Visual Facts, Canada House, London.

1985

Holland Festival, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam.

1985

Nudité et sexualité en photographie, Dazibao, Montréal.

1985

Video Biennale: Feminist Video, Wein.

1984

Video 84, Montréal.

1984

Féministe toi-même, féministe quand-même, La Chambre blanche, Québec.

1984

Video Refractions, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario.

1984

Vérifications, Galerie Optica, Montréal.

1983

Appearing, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

1983

Video the Accessible Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois.

1983

Common Objects-Different Modes, The Photographer's Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.

1983

Common Objects-Different Modes, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, N.S.

1983

New Narrative, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1983

Coaxing the Cable, Open Space Gallery, Voctoria, B.C.

1983

Kunstler Aus Kanada, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart.

1983

OKanada, Berlin Kunstakademie, Berlin.

1982

Semaine de la vidéo féministe québecoise, Musée d'art contemporaine, Montréal.

1982

Vidéo Vehicule, Galerie Vehicule, Montréal.

Bibliography

2023

Hakim, Mona, Des territoires sous observation/Territorios bajo observacion, Galerie Occurrence, Montréal.

2022

"Sonic Lab #3: The History of Artexte", a conversation between Mojeanne Behzadi and Lesley Johnstone, Angela Grauerholz, Francine Périnet, Anne Ramsden, Artexte, December 02, 2023.

2020

Beginning With the Seventies, Lorna Brown, p. 30, p. 47. , Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

2019

Perrault, Marie, "Anne Ramsden: Le temps qu'il faut", Occurence, 2019.

2017

Ritter, Kathleen, "Vancouver 1989: Kathleen Ritter in conversation with Lorna Brown et al", Desire Change, McGill-Queen's UNiversity Press and Mawa, Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago and  Winnipeg.

2015

Sloan, Johanne, "Relations, 1988: Postmodern, Photographic, Feminist", Journal of Canadian Art History, Volume XXXVI:1, 2015.

2014

Régimbald-Zeiber, Monique, "Filiations: Prise 1", Spirale, no. 247, Hiver 2014.

2014

Tousignant, Isa, "Porcelain: Breaking Tradition", Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 2014.

2013

Manolo, Brigitte, "Éclats vivants de porcelaine", Voir, le 17 novembre 2013.

2013

Clément, Éric, "De la porcelaine à l'oeuvre: le récit actuel de la céramique", La Presse, l1 21 novembre, 2013.

2013

Delgado, Jérôme, "Casser une noble image", Le Devoir, le 16 novembre,2013.

2013

Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, Kramer, Jennifer and Ki-ke-in, editors, Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas, UBC Press, Vancouver.

2010

Baert, Renee, "Of Other Sites", Feminisms Is Still Our Name, ed. Malin Hayden & Jessica Skrubbe, Cambridge Scholars Publiching, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010.

2009

Langford, Martha, Préoccupations: Photographic Explorations of the  Grey Nuns Mother House, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal.

2009

Morel, Gaëlle, The Spaces of the Image, Mois de la Photo, Montréal.

2008

Beaupré, Marie-Ève, Libre ‹ échange. Extraits de la collection de l’UQAM,. Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montréal, Qc.

2008

Charron, Marie-Ève, "Études sur le quotidien", Le Devoir, 12/13 janvier

2007

Perrault, Marie, Anne Ramsden : La collection et le quotidien, Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski, Qc

2007

Gogarty, Amy, "Remediating Craft", in Utopic Impulses : Contemporary Ceramics Practice, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 2007.

2007

O’Brien, Melanie, "The Anastylosis Project", in Utopic Impulses : Contemporary Ceramics Practice, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 2007.

2007

Laurence, Robin, "Vancouver loses its identity in The Backlot", Georgia Straight, 08/03/2007.

2007

Fisher, Jennifer, "Exhibitionary Affect", n. paradoxa, Vol. 19, January 2007. Londres.

2006

Chambers, Ruth, "Installation-Towards Self-definition", Ceramics :Art and Perception, No. 65, Sydney, Australia.

2004

Arbour, R-M, "Féminin pluriel et féminismes en arts visuels au Québec, Esse, printemps/été.

2003

Fisher, Jennifer, Anastylosis :Inventory, Installation and Photographs, "Ready Unmades", Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alta.

2002

Drobnick, Jim and Fisher, Jennifer, Museopathy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre en association avec DisplayCult.

2002

Tousley, Nancy, "Sympathy, Empathy, Museopathy", Canadian Art, Vol. 19, No.1.

2001

Mizgala, Johanna, "Compulsive Consumption", Fuse Magazine, Vol 23, no.3.

2000

Watson, Petra, "Plate Full", Canadian Art, Vol. 17, no. 1,. 

2000

Lacroix, Laurier et Ramsden, Anne, Anastylose : un inventaire , Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke.         

1999

Fraser, Marie et al, Sur l’expérience de la ville, Interventions en milieu urbain, Galerie Optica, Montréal.

1999     

Baert, Renee, "Three Dresses, Tailored to the Times", dans Material Matters : The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles, réd. Ingrid Bachmann & Ruth Scheuing, Toronto, YYZ Books.

1999

Sowiak, Christine,  Blue, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alt.

1998

Perreault, Marie, Patina, Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Qc.

1996

Meier, Rhonda, "Anne Ramsden, Galerie Samuel Lallouz", C Magazine, Oct./Nov.,

1996

Bellerby, Greg, Vancouver Perspectives, Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.

1996

Couelle, Jennifer, "Communiquer à mots tus", Le Devoir, 10 mars.

1996

Watson, Petra, Digital Investigations, SFU Harborcentre, Vancouver, B.C.

1996

Interventions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., essai: Lisa Robertson.

1994

Bellavance, Guy, "Anne Ramsden", Parachute, no. 76., oct/nov/déc.

1994

Taylor, Kate, "Bodies of Evidence", Globe and Mail, July  23.

1994

Pakasaar, Helga, Residence, Oakville  Galleries, Oakville, On.

1993

Mastai, Judith, "Blind Spots", Parachute 69, Hiver 1992/93.

1992

Greenberg, Reesa, De la curiosité: petite anatomie d'un regard, Galerie Dazibao, Montréal, Qc.

1992

Gravel, Claire, "Outillages critiques", les herbes rouges, numéro 197.

1991

Laurence, Robin, "Public Domain", Georgia Straight, Volume 25, n.1231.

1991

Déry, Louise, Un archipel de désirs:Les artistes du Québec et la scène internationale, essai: Musée du Québec, Québec, Qc.

1991

Perron, Mireille, "Legitimation", C Magazine, p.53,  Spring.

1991

Andrae, Janice, "Legitimation", Parachute 61, p.67.

1990

Glowen, Ron, "Selecting Diversity", Artweek, November 8, Vol. 21,  No.17, p.15-16.

1990

Campeau, Sylvain, "Urbain de juvence", Etc Montréal, Numero 12, sept., p.53-54.

1990

Gravel, Claire, "Blain, Ramsden, Bernier, Blackburn: Les grands perturbateurs", Le Devoir, 13 janvier.

1989

Baert, Renée, Legitimation, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Qc.

Publications (by the artist)

2020

"Collection of the Artist", Now Bulletin, ed David MacWilliam, Griffin Projects, Vancouver, B.C.

2014

Filiations Prise1, Spirale #247, Hiver 2014.

2002

Artist's project, Angelaki Vol. 7 No. 1, Routledge, London.

2001

Cover pages, PUBLIC, no. 21, 2001

2000

"Anastylosis" in Anastylose : un inventaire , Lacroix, Laurier et Ramsden, Anne, Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Qc.

1999

"Friday", in So, to Speak, Artextes Editions, Montréal, Qc.

1995

Artist's project, Collapse, vol. 1 no. 1, Vancouver, B.C.

1990

Urban Geography, UBC  Fine Arts  Gallery, Vancopuver, B.C.

1989

"Between Signifiers", Front Magazine, Vancouver, septembre.

1988

Oceania/Océanie (artists' book), Artextes, Montréal, Qc.

1986

"Cinémama", La vie en rose, mars.

1981

"Photographing Industrial Architecture: An Interview  with Hilla and Bernd Becher", collaboration with Angela Grauerholz, Parachute, no. 22,  printemps.

1980

"Recent Paintings by Shirley Wiitasalo", Parachute, no. 17, hiver.

1979

"It Ain't What You Make, It's What Makes You Do It: An Interview with Dennis Oppenheim", Parachute, no. 9.

Videography

Manufactured Romance:

  • Part One-Chance For Love, 30 min., 1982.
  • Part Two-Beauty, Passion and Power, 20 min., 1983.
  • Part Three-Emotional Ground, 15 min., 1985.

Our Mission..., 9 min., 1981.

Mmmmmm, 21 min., 1981.

New Freedom, 13 min., 1981.

Residencies

2016

Artexte, Montréal.

2001

The Sixth Annual Nora Vaughan Sculpture /Installation Residency, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario.

1993

Cité internationale des arts, Paris.

1993

Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario.

1990

Western Front, Vancouver.

1986

The Banff Centre, Leighton Colony, Banff, Alberta.

Collections

  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
  • SFU Galleries, Vancouver
  • Musée de Rimouski
  • Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
  • Galerie de l’UQÀM, Montréal                                                     
  • Vancouver Art Gallery                                                         
  • Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, On.                       
  • Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa                                  
  • Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC                                        
  • Banque d’oeuvres d’art du Conseil des Arts du Canada
  • Musée des beaux arts du Canada
  • Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
  • Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
  • Musée de Joliette, Qué.
  • Oakville Galleries, Oakville, On.
  • Collections privées/private collections

Community Involvement

2022

Nanaimo Art Gallery Community Round Table.

2018

Nanaimo Art Gallery Visitor Experience Focus Group.

2016

Membre du jury, Bourse Desjardins, Conseil des arts de Longueil

1999-2009

Membre, Conseil d’administration, Artexte, Montréal.

1999

Membre du jury de la séction vidéo, Rendez-vous du cinéma Quèbecois.

1995

Coordinator and instructor, "Imaging/Visioning Image: Digital Imaging and Theories of Photography", Summer intensive at SFU, with Johanne Lamoureux (Université de Montréal) et W.J. Mitchell (M.I.T.).

1994

Jury member, Concorde Pacific Public Art Competition, Vancouver.

1994

B Grant Jury, Visual Art, Canada Council.

1991

Project and B Grant juries, Video, Canada Council.

1990-93

Member of the Board of Directors,  Vancouver Art Gallery.

1989

Coordinator and instructor, "Imaging/Visioning Image: Digital Imaging and Theories of Photography", Summer intensive at SFU, with Johanne Lamoureux (U. de M.) and W.J. Mitchell (M.I.T.).

1988-90

Magazine Committee, English Language, Canada Council.

1986

Video and International Artists Program juries, Canada Council.

1980-87

Co-founder, Treasuer, Centre d'information Artexte, Montréal.

1981-82

Présidente, Conseil d’administration, PRIM Vidéo.

Grants and Awards

2020

B.C. Arts Council Project Assistance.

2014

Bourse de voyage, CALQ.

2010

Bourse de recherche (PAFARC), l’UQÀM.

2007

Bourse du CIAM.

2006

Bourse de recherche (PAFARC), l’UQÀM.

2004

Bourse de recherche (PAFARC), l’UQÀM.

2001

Bourse Type A, CALQ.

2000, 1998

Bourse de recherche (PAFARC), l’UQÀM.

1996

B Grant, Visual Art, Canada Council.

1994

Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, Canada Council.

1993

Paris Studio and B Grant, Visual Art, Canada Council.

1990

B Grant, Visual Art, Canada Council.

1990

B.C. Film Production Grant.

1987

B Grant, Visual Art, Canada Council.

1986

B Grant, Video, Canada Council.

1984

Short Term and Travel Grants, Video, Canada Council.

1983

Bouse de soutien à la création du Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec.

1983, 1982

Video Production Grants, Canada Council.

Employment (academic and other)

2022

Making Waves, Artist Presentation, Nanaimo Art Gallery.

2021

Workshop "Nature in the City" via Zoom, Nanaimo Art Gallery.

2020

Roundtable via zoom, in conjunction with NOW, Griffin Projects, Vancouver.

2020

Artist presentation, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo.

2019

Workshop "What are gnerations?", Nanaimo Art Gallery.

2018

Round Table, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, B.C.

2017-

Professeure associée, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, UQÀM.

2004-2005

Guest artist-professor, Vermont College, M.A. Program.

2003-2004

Guest instructor, Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

1998-2017

Professeure, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, UQÀM.

1987-98

Associate Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU, Vancouver.

1984-87

Sessional instructor, Department of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montréal.

1980-87

Co-founder, Co-director, Centre d’information Artexte, Montréal.

1980-82

Editorial assistant, Parachute, revue d'art contemporain, Montréal.