Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Paris, 2007
Born (1973-09-25) September 25, 1973
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation Artist, Diarist
Website
www.nemerofsky.ca

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (born September 25, 1973) is a Montreal-born artist and diarist.

Since 2000 his creative gestures in video, sound and text have contemplated the history of song, the rendering of love and emotion into language, and the resurrection and manipulation of voices – sung, spoken or screamed. Early video work concentrated on critical mimicry of material from popular culture, with references to Madonna, American Idol, Tatu, Françoise Hardy and Kylie Minogue. Recent work focuses on re-examinations of seminal texts, films and video art from queer and art history, working with material by Audre Lorde, Colin Campbell, Rosa von Praunheim, Henri Rousseau and Harry Hay.

Nemerofsky's work has screened in festivals and galleries across Canada, Europe and East Asia and has won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest and the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (all in Germany), the Toronto Inside Out Film and Video Festival as well as first prize at the Globalica Media Arts Biennale in Wrocław, Poland. His work is part of numerous private collections as well as the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Nemerofsky is openly gay.

Select Video Works

Nemerofsky's extensive body of video work includes:

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