Anne Ramsden

Anne Ramsden (born 1952) is a Canadian artist who has exhibited widely in Canada. She currently lives and works on Gabriola Island, British Columbia on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation.

Life and education Ramsden was born in Kingston, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University in 1973, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1983. Anne Ramsden, "Museum of the Everyday, The Morning Walk Collection/Musée du quotidien, Collection promenade matinale," 2005-2014, inkjet print on polypropylene. Collection of the artist From the series of 65 photo-posters entitled Museum of the Everyday/Musée du quotidien, 2005-2014. To view the series go to Ramsden was a co-founder, along with Francine Perinet and Angela Grauerholz, of the documentation centre and bookstore Artexte and served as co-director from 1980 to 1987. and from 1998 to 2017 was professor in the École des arts visuels et médiatiques at the Université du Quebec à Montréal.

Artistic practice Ramsden works across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Ramsden has exhibited widely across Canada. Several notable solo exhibitions include Anastylosis: Inventory, which was exhibited at the Centre Cultural de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke in 2000 and at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge in 2002; Relations at Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver in 1988; and Urban Geography, shown at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (now the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery), Vancouver and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon in 1990.

Ramsden's work has investigated museology and museum display practices, mass media, and the social spaces and visual culture engendered by new technologies. Her multidisciplinary work has been described as bearing an 'obvious feminist thrust.' Reesa Greenberg writes that the, "doubling, repetition, juxtaposition, shifts in focus and the reflection of a female viewer positioned outside the museum identify the museum as colonist, racist and sexist."

Awards In 1993, Ramsden was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Joseph S. Stauffer Award, which recognizes Canadian artists who exhibit strong artistic potential in music, visual arts, and literature.

Collections Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris Concordia University, Montreal Freedman Gallery, Reading Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Musée régionale de Rimouski National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Oakville Galleries, Oakville Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver