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= Anne Ramsden = Anne Ramsden (b. 1952, Kingston, Ontario) is a senior Canadian artist who has exhibited widely in Canada. She is currently based in Montreal, where she is a professor at the Université du Quebec à Montréal.

Life and Career
Ramsden 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.

Ramsden was a co-founder, along with Francine Perinet and Angela Grauerholz[iv], of the documentation centre and bookstore Artexte and served as co-director from 1980 to 1987.[v]

She served as an associate editor for Parachute Magazine from 1980 to 1982.[vi] From 1987 to 1998, Ramsden taught at the School for Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University.[vii][viii] She is a professor at the Université du Quebec à Montréal, where she has taught since 1998.

Artistic Practice
Ramsden works across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Marie Perrault writes that Ramsden’s work has been described as bearing an ‘obvious feminist thrust’ in her multidisciplinary work.[i] Ramsden’s work has also investigated museology and museum display practices, mass media, and the social spaces and visual culture engendered by new technologies.[ii]

In describing Ramsden’s seven-monitor video installation, Urban Geography (1990), Robin Laurence writes that Ramsden uses, “a strategy of fragmentation and failed communication” in order to convey “a condition of alienation.”[iii]

Ramsden has exhibited widely, with shows at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Awards
In 1993, Ramsden was awarded the Canada Council for the Art’s Joseph S. Stauffer Award, which recognizes Canadian artists who exhibit strong artistic potential in music, visual arts, and literature. [1] http://www.vitheque.com/Ficheauteur/tabid/189/language/en-US/Default.aspx?id=313

[2] http://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/joseph-s-stauffer-prizes [i] Marie Perrault, Anne Ramsden: La Collection et Le Quotidien (Rimouski: Musée Regional de Rimouski, 2007), 41.

[ii] Perrault, Anne Ramsden, 41.

[iii] Robin Laurence, “Vancouver loses its identity in The Backlot,” Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC), August 3, 2007.

[i] Perrault, Anne Ramsden, 51.

[ii] Lacroix, Laurier. Anne Ramsden: Anastylose: un inventaire/Anastylosis: Inventory (Montreal: Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke, 2000), 26.

[iii] Perrault, Anne Ramsden, 51.

[iv] This was on Artexte’s site -> valid?

[v] Lacroix, 26.

[vi] Lacroix, 26.

[vii] Lacroix, 26.

[viii] Perrault, Anne Ramsden, 50.