DIVISION GALLERY Anne Ramsden EDUCATION / RESIDENCIES 1983 Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal 1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1973 Bachelor of Arts, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2000 Anastylosis: Inventory, Centre Culturel de l Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec 1999 Anastylosis: Childhood, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver 1998 Patina, 5 banners for the museum façade, Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec 1997 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver 1996 Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec 1996 Interventions: Renee Van Halm and Anne Ramsden, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia 1994 Residence, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 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, Montreal 1988 Relations, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver VIDEO SCREENINGS 1987 Festival de film et vidéo de femmes, Montreal 1986 Articule, Montreal 1986 A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon 1986 Vidéographe, Montreal 1985 The Heat is On, Video In, Vancouver 1985 Cinéma Festival de films des femmes, Montreal 1985 A Space, Toronto 1985 TV or Not TV, Vidéographe, Montreal 1984 Vidéo Femmes, Quebec City 1983 10ième Festival Vidéo, Montbeliard, France 1982 Video Roma, Rome 1982 Evénément Vidéo, La chambre blanche, Quebec City 1981 Télévidéo, Montreal GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Porcelain: Breaking Tradition, Art Mûr, Montreal, QC; Division Gallery, Toronto, ON 1999 Blue, Nickle Art Gallery, Calgary (curated by Chris Sowiak) 1997 Sur l experience de la ville: interventions en milieu urbain (6 posters in six publicity and information kiosks), Galerie Optica, Montreal 1997 Objet domestique, séduction detournée, Le Centre de Diffusion de la maitrise en arts plastiques,
L Université du Québec à Montreal, Montreal 1997 Vancouver Perspectives, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 1997 The View from Here, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 1997 Road Movies in a Post Colonial Landscape, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at The Art Gym at Marylhurst College, Portland, Oregon (curated by Judith Mastai) 1996 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver 1996 Vancouver Perspectives, Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 1996 Digital Investigations, Western Front Gallery, and Simon Fraser Gallery, Vancouver 1995 Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal 1994 Corpus, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario 1993 Social Studies/ Still Lives, Maison de la culture, Côte des Neiges, Montreal 1993 Corpus, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta; travelled to Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon 1992 Standard Stoppages, Cathedral Place, Vancouver 1991 Public Domain, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1991 Un archipel de desirs: les artistes du Québec et la scène internationale, Musée de Québec, Quebec City 1991 Legitimation, Galerie Vu, Quebec City 1991 Legitimation, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario 1990 Faculty Exhibition, Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia 1990 Artropolis, Vancouver, British Columbia 1990 Legitimation, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary 1990 Legitimation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1990 Transpositions, Vancouver Skytrain System, Vancouver 1989 Legitimation, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal 1989 Rebel Girls, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; travelled to National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1988 Canadian Narrative Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1988 AdVerse Practices, Vancouver 1987 Active Process, Presentation House, North Vancouver, British Columbia 1986 Centre culturel canadien, Paris 1986 E.L.A.C., Lyon, France 1985 Fascination with the Other, A.R.C., Toronto 1985 Visual Facts, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; travelled to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Canada House, London (curated by Michael Tooby) 1985 Time Based Arts, Holland Festival, Amsterdam 1985 Nudité et sexualité en photographie, Dazibao, Montreal 1985 Video Biennale: Feminist Video, Vienna 1984 Vidéo 84, Montreal 1984 Féministe toi-même, féministe quand-même, La chambre blanche, Quebec City 1984 Video Refractions, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario 1984 Vérifications, Galerie Optica, Montreal 1983 Appearing, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax 1983 Video: The Accessible Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 1983 Common Objects - Different Modes, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon; and Eye Level Gallery, Halifax 1983 New Narrative, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1983 Coaxing the Cable, Open Space Gallery, Victoria 1983 Kunstler Aus Kanada, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1983 OKanada, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin 1982 Semaine de la vidéo feministe québecoise, Musée d art contemporain, Montreal
1982 Video Véhicule, Galerie Véhicule, Montreal COLLECTIONS Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston, Ontario Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Centre culturel Canadien, Paris Concordia University, Montreal Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver VIDEOGRAPHY Our Mission, 9 minutes, 1981. Mmmmmm, 21 minutes, 1981. New Freedom, 13 minutes, 1981. Manufactured Romance: Part One Chance For Love, 30 minutes, 1982; Part Two Beauty, Passion and Power, 20 minutes, 1983; Part Three Emotional Ground, 15 minutes, 1985. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario Cree School Board, Chisasibi, James Bay, Quebec (special printmaking workshop program Erindale College, University of Toronto (Mississauga Campus guest lecturer) Haliburton School of Fine Arts (Summer Program) (founder of Print Studio, faculty member, and teacher of intaglio printmaking and environmental aesthetics) Holland College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia Kitchener/ Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario Lindsay Art Gallery, Lindsay, Ontario Nanjing College of Arts, Jiangsu Province, China (lectures, slide shows and printmaking demonstrations) The Ontario Arts Council: Creative Artists in the Schools Program, Peterborough County Board of Education; Victoria County Board of Education; Durham County Board of Education Sheridan College of Applied Arts, Oakville, Ontario (Visual Arts Department tutorials and printmaking workshop) Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario (Environmental Workshop instructor, Ecotourism Program) Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario The Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario Timmins Museum National Exhibition Centre, South Porcupine, Ontario Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (artist-in-residence)
University of Nanjing and Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Whitby Arts Incorporated, Whitby, Ontario BIBLIOGRAPHY Active Process. Vancouver: Presentation House, 1987.* Adverse Practices. Montreal: Artexte, 1988.* AdVerse Practices. Vancouver: Association for Noncommercial Culture, 1988.* Anastylosis: Inventory. Sherbrooke, Quebec: Galerie d art du Centre culturel de l Université de Sherbrooke, 2000.* Andrae, Janice. "Legitimation." Parachute (Vancouver), no. 61 (1991). Anne Ramsden: Blind Spots. 48 Portraits: Excerpts (Nietzsche on Women). Vancouver: Front Gallery, 1992.* Anne Ramsden: Residence. Oakville, Ontario: Oakville Galleries, 1994.* Anne Ramsden: Urban Geography. Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1990.* Appearing. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, 1983.* Baert, Renee. "Scent." Legitimation. Montreal: Galerie Powerhouse, 1989, pp. 14-17.* Baert, Renee. Three Dresses, Tailored to the Times. Material Matters: The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles. Ingrid Bachman and Ruth Scheuing, eds. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1999. Balkind, Alvin. "The Road Much Travelled By. Transpositions: A Public Exhibition of Canadian Photography. Vancouver, 1990, pp. 9-13.* Bellavance, Guy. "Anne Ramsden." Parachute (Montreal), no. 76 (October/ November/ December 1994). Blanchette, Manon. "Topologie d une simulation poétique: Anne Ramsden." Vanguard (Vancouver) (February 1985). Blue. Calgary: Nickle Arts Museum, 1999.* Bradley, Jessica. "Corpo-Realities: From Postminimalism to Postmodernism. Corpus. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 1995, pp. 70-75.* British/ Canadian Video Exchange. London: Canada House, 1984.* Campeau, Sylvain. "Urbain de Juvence." Etc. (Montreal), no. 12 (September 1990). Canadian Video Art. Amsterdam: Holland Festival, 1985.* Carrière, Daniel. "Un archipel de désirs avortes." Le Devoir (Montreal), 27 juillet 1991. Corpus. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 1995.* Couelle, Jennifer. "Communiquer à mots tus." Le Devoir (Montreal), 10 March 1996. Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie. "The Artropolitans." Vancouver Magazine 23, no. 10 (October 1990). Davis, Todd A. "Art and Advertising as Public Imagery." Transpositions: A Public Exhibition of Canadian Photography. Vancouver, 1990, pp. 49-51.* De la curiosité: petite anatomie d un regard. Montreal: Galerie Dazibao, 1992.* Decary, Marie. "La nudité n est plus qu elle était." Le Devoir (Montreal), 25 May 1985. Déry, Louise. Un archipel de désirs: les artistes du Quebec et la scène internationale. Quebec: Musée du Québec, 1991.* Digital Investigations/ Differential Space. Burnaby, British Columbia: Simon Fraser Gallery, 1996.* Failing, Patricia. "The Pacific Northwest: Sex, Landscape and Videotapes." Artnews (December 1991). Findlay, Len. "Rumours of Our Breath." Border Crossings (Summer 1993). Garneau, David. "Blue in your face", FFWD (Vancouver), 18-24 March 1999, p. 19. Glowern, Ron. "Selecting Diversity." Artweek 21, no. 17 (8 November 1990). Gravel, Claire, "Blain, Ramsden, Bernier, Blackburn: les grands perturbateurs." Le Devoir (Montreal), 13 January 1990. Gravel, Claire. "Outillages critiques." Les herbes rouges, no. 197 (1992). Greenberg, Reesa. "Objects of Curiosity: Photographs of Museums" (1992). Greenberg, Reesa. Relations. Relations. Vancouver: Artspeak, 1988.*
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PUBLISHED WRITINGS AND ARTIST PROJECTS Artist s Pages. Parachute (Montreal) (1987). Artist s project. Collapse (Vancouver) 1, no. 1 (1995). "Between Signifiers. Front Magazine (Vancouver) (September 1989). Cinemama. La vie en rose (March 1986). "48 Portraits: Excerpts (Nietzsche on Women)." Blind Spots. Vancouver: Front Gallery, 1992. "Friday." So, to Speak. Jean-Pierre Gilbert, Sylvie Gilbert, and Lesley Johnstone, eds. Montreal: Artextes Editions/ Prendre Parole, 1999, pp. 13-18, "It Ain t What You Make, It s What Makes You Do It: An Interview with Dennis Oppenheim." Parachute (Montreal), no. 9 (1978). Oceania/ Océanie (artist s book). Montreal: Artextes, 1982. "Photographing Industrial Architecture: An Interview with Hilla and Bernd Becher," Parachute (Montreal), no. 22 (Spring 1981). "Recent Paintings by Shirley Wiitasalo." Parachute (Montreal), no. 17 (Winter 1979). Small Talk. Hand-made chapbook, edition of 20. Montreal: privately printed, 1977. Urban Geography (pamphlet for video installation). Vancouver: University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1990.