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Sobey Art Award
The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. Sobey, who established The Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. A jury consisting of an international juror and representatives of galleries from the West Coast and the Yukon, the Prairies and the North, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces creates a longlist of 25 artists, five from each region. The jury meets to select the winner and four other finalists, one from each region. 2017 was the first year to see the shortlist dominated by women and also the first year that more than one Indigenous artist was shortlisted. Up to 2013, a total of $70,000 in prize money was awarded each time the prize was presented; $50,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the other four finalists. In 2014 the total was increased to $10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank H
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Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw (born 1977) is a Canadian visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Shaw's art deals with altered states and the cultural and scientific practices investigating transcendental experience, with recurring themes around belief-systems, drugs, neuroscience, subculture, dance and evolution. His works often combine elements of cinema vérité, conceptual art, music video, scientific research, and science fiction. His practice incorporates media including film, video, photography, sculpture, music and performance. Exhibitions Shaw's solo exhibitions have been hosted by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2020); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2013); and MoMA PS1, New York (2011); and he has participated in international surveys, including the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016). In 2016 Shaw was awarded the Sobey Art Award. Shaw's work is included in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, Tate Modern, London, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Art Awards
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Monnet
Caroline "Coco" Monnet is an Algonquin French Canadian contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation, and film. Early life and education Monnet is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She grew up between the Celtic coasts of France in Douarnenez and the Algonquin territory of Outaouais, Québec, and much of her work explores her Algonquin (Quebec) and French (France) dual heritage. She is the younger sister of artist and playwright Émilie Monnet. Monnet has B.A in communications and sociology from the University of Ottawa and has studied at the University of Granada in Spain. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Lab 2016. Career Monnet began her film career making short films. In 2010, Caroline Monnet released the short film ''Warchild'', which made its debut at the Présence Authochtone Montréal First Peoples' Festival in August 2011. In 2012, Monnet released '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Basanta
Adam Basanta (born 1985) is a Montreal-based artist and experimental composer whose practice investigates manifestations of technology as a meeting point of concurrent and overlapping systems. He uses various media (installation, kinetic sculpture, sound, computational image-making) and creates participatory and multi-sensory performances. Biography Adam Basanta was born in Tel-Aviv in 1985. He was raised in Vancouver and lives and works in Montreal since 2010. He holds a BFA in music composition from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver) and an interdisciplinary Research-Creation Master in fine arts from Concordia University (Montreal). Since 2015, his works have been exhibited in galleries and institutions internationally. He is represented by ELLEPHANT Gallery, Montreal, and his work can be found in the institutional collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and the Vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar is a contemporary artist who works with photography, collage, installation and book-making. Cwynar was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1985 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Cwynar's work presents a marriage of old and new forms that are intended to challenge the way that people encounter visual and material culture in everyday life. Early life and education Cwynar grew up in Vancouver, Canada. She studied English literature at the University of British Columbia and eventually earned a Bachelor of Design Honours degree from York University in Toronto in 2010. She earned an MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2016. Cwynar has previously worked as a freelance graphic designer for The New York Times. Work Cwynar uses a variety of media, including photography, collage, book-making and installation, to explore the nature of photographic images and the power and limitations of the medium itself. Cwynar's background in literature and graphic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason De Haan
Jason de Haan is a Canadian artist (born ). Background De Haan was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2006. In 2015, de Haan received an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in New York state. Work de Haan's work, which is primarily contemporary art and collage, has been shown at galleries and museums such as the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Museum of Mexico City, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavik, and presented by curators such as Makiko Hara. Jason de Haan has worked as an instructor at the Alberta University of the Arts. In 2020, Jason de Haan received the Sobey Art Award, Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. See also * Makiko Hara * Sobey Art Award The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asinnajaq
Asinnajaq (born 1991), Isabella Rose Rowan-Weetaluktuk, is a Canadian Inuk visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator, from Inukjuak, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 film ''Three Thousand'', which received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. She has also been active as a curator of Inuit art and video projects, including the Canadian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and the Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Biography Asinnajaq was born in Inukjuak, Nunavik, and is currently based out of Montreal, Quebec. The name “Asinnajaq” is a family name that means “nomadic outlier” in the local Inuktitut dialect. Her mother, Carol Rowan, is a university professor, while her father, Jobie Weetaluktuk, is a filmmaker. She studied film at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design at the university in Halifax. She assisted her father on ''Timuti'' (2012), a film he made in Inukjuak, home of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zadie Xa
Zadie Xa (born 1983) is a Korean-Canadian visual artist who combines sculpture, painting, light, sound, and performance to create immersive multi-media experiences. Drawing inspiration from fields such as ecology, science fiction, and ancient religions, her work explores how beings imagine and inhabit their worlds. Her work is centered on otherness and is informed by personal experience within the Korean diaspora, as well as by environmental and cultural contexts of the Pacific Northwest. Xa's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at numerous galleries in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Serpentine Gallery in London, UK; Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, France; Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia; and Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, among others. Xa's work is also in the holdings of the permanent collection at The Box, Plymouth (previously the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery). In addition, Xa has been a participant in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Papalia
Carmen Papalia (born 1981) is a blind artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice focuses on "creative wayfinding", the use of alternative modes of navigation without visual cues. Papalia is known for his performances. This includes a performance in Santa Ana, California where Papalia was guided only by a marching band playing predetermined audio cues for physical obstacles and navigation. Papalia also conducts non-visual walking tours for sighted people. His ongoing Open Access project works towards guidelines for engagement with diverse audiences. Education Papalia holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and a Master of Fine Arts from Portland State University. Career Papalia has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Craft Contemporary, the Grand Central Art Center, the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, the Portland Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Di Menna
Michele Di Menna (born 1980) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who works with text, performance, sculpture and collage. Biography Michele Di Menna was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and later attended Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule (2005-2010), in Frankfurt Germany. Reception Frieze.com has described Di Menna's artistic practice as "a persistently process-based approach (that) is self-referential." Select group exhibitions * 2019: Marabu: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany * 2018: Schmalz: Guimarães, Vienna, Austria * 2018: Landfall and Departure: Epilogue (Listening to the Sea): Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia * 2017: in awe: cur. by Melanie Ohnemus, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria * 2016: Ein Schelm: wer Böses dabei denkt : cur. by Stephanie Siedel and Fanny Gonella, Kuenstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany * 2016: Rage Farmer Rage Profitee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Comilang
Stephanie Comilang (born 1980) is a Filipina-Canadian artist and filmmaker working in Toronto and Berlin. Background Stephanie Comilang's parents immigrated from the Philippines to Canada in the 1970s to escape the political unrest of Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship. Growing up in an immigrant household shaped her idea of home and has served as the starting point for much of her artwork. She graduated from the OCAD University in 2006 with a BFA in Integrated Media. Artistic career Comilang's work is concerned with the concept of home, often dealing with ideas of diaspora and migration. Her documentary approach in constructing narratives stresses themes of social mobility, global labor, and cross-cultural communication. Through the medium of video, Comilang explores the conditions migrants face, looking at exploitation and adversity that groups endure when leaving a country for reasons out of their own control. Comilang has screened her works at the International Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
