The Practice of Potatoes (Parmentier/Bourdieu/Brillat de Savarin) 2014 by Ron Benner

Ron Benner

Ron Benner was born in 1949 in London, Ontario. He is an internationally recognized visual artist, photographer, writer, curator, and social activist whose long-standing practice investigates the history and political economy of food cultures. Since 1987, he has produced photographic/garden installations across Canada and in Salamanca and Seville in Spain, and Xi’an, China. His photographic/garden installation As The Crow Flies (2005–ongoing) became part of the permanent collection of Museum London in 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Western University, and a cofounder of, with Jamelie Hassan, and curatorial advisor at the Embassy Cultural House.