Bénédicte Ramade

Bénédicte Ramade is an art historian, critic and independent curator specializing in artistic environmental and ecological issues, both historical and contemporary. She has been teaching at the Université du Québec à Montréal École des arts visuels et médiatiques since 2017 and is the 2024 winner of the Prix d'excellence en recherche et en recherche-création pour les personnes chargées de cours de la Faculté des arts. She also teaches in the art history department at Université de Montréal.

Over the past 25 years, she has been developing her expertise in France and Canada and has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions (Richard Long, David Lafrance, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel). She is currently deepening her knowledge of vegetal perceptions, the extinction of the living through the prism of animal visualities, and the emotions related to climate change, to which she is dedicating an exhibition at the Galerie de l’Université de Montréal in 2025. She has published Vers un art anthropocène. L'art écologique américain pour prototype (Les Presses du réel) in 2022. [Source: VOX, 2025]