The Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards, the Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist and the Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art are two annual arts awards of $25,000 and $10,000 that recognize mid-career Canadian visual artists and curators. The Hnatyshyn Foundation is a private charity established by

Ray Hnatyshyn Ramon John Hnatyshyn ( ; March 16, 1934December 18, 2002) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as the 24th governor general of Canada from 1990 to 1995. Hnatyshyn was born and educated in Saskatchewan and served in the Royal Canadian ...

, Canada’s 24th

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2006

It was won by

Stan Douglas Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since the late 1980s, he has created works in film and photography as well as theatre productions and other multidisciplinary projects that invest ...

. It was juried by

Scott Watson Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, two young New Zealanders, disappeared in the early hours of the morning on New Year's Day, 1January 1998. The two friends had been celebrating New Year's Eve at Furneaux Lodge in the Marlborough Sounds with other part ...

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The gallery is housed in a building designed by architect Peter Cardew which opened in 1995 ...

, Vancouver; Catherine Crowston,

Art Gallery of Alberta The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies an building at Churchill Square (Edmonton), Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The museum building was originally designed by Donald G. Bittor ...

, Edmonton; Darlene Coward Wight,

Winnipeg Art Gallery The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collect ...

; Kitty Scott,

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

, Ottawa;

Serpentine Gallery The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Westminster, Greater London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Galler ...

, London (England); Paulette Gagnon,

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (, MACM) is a contemporary art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Place des festivals in the Quartier des spectacles and is part of the Place des Arts complex. Founded in 1964, it ...

; Robin Metcalfe, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax.

2007

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Ken Lum Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA (; born 1956) holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States. He is an artist, an academic, and a curator. Lum's artistic practice spans multiple media including painting, sculpture and photography. His play ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art:

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It was juried by Jon Tupper, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown; Christine Ross, Dept. of Art History, McGill University, Montreal; Diana Nemiroff, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa; Robert Enright, arts journalist, Winnipeg;

Liz Magor Liz Magor (born 1948) is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver. She is well known for her sculptures that address themes of history, shelter and survival through objects that reference still life, domesticity and wildlife. She often re-purpo ...

, artist, Vancouver.

2008

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Janet Cardiff Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art wor ...

George Bures Miller George Bures Miller (born 1960) is a Canadian artist known for his collaborative works with his wife Janet Cardiff. Miller and Cardiff represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale. They are based in British Columbia, Canada. Solo works Works ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Barbara Fischer It was juried by Christina Ritchie,

Contemporary Art Gallery A contemporary art gallery is normally a commercial art gallery operated by an art dealer which specializes in displaying for sale contemporary art, usually new works of art by living artists. This approach has been called the "Castelli Method ...

, Vancouver; Jeffrey Spalding,

Glenbow Museum The Glenbow Museum is an art and history local museum, regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canada, Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives. The Glenbow was establ ...

, Calgary; Louise Dompierre,

Art Gallery of Hamilton The Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) is an art museum located in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The museum occupies a building on King Street (Hamilton, Ontario), King Street West in downtown Hamilton, designed by Trevor P. Garwood-Jon ...

;

Marc Mayer Marc Daniel Mayer (born 1956) is a Canadian arts manager and curator. He was formerly director of the National Gallery of Canada as well as the strategic adviser at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. Early life Mayer was born and raise ...

;

Marlene Creates Marlene Creates (born 1952) is a Canadian artist lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Creates studied visual arts at Queen's University, then lived in Ottawa for twelve years, moving to Newfoundl ...

, Artist, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.

2009

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Rebecca Belmore Rebecca Belmore (born March 22, 1960) is a Canadian interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and a member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul Fi ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Anthony Kiendl It was juried by

Ian Carr-Harris Ian Carr-Harris (born 1941) is a Canadian artist living in Toronto. In addition to exhibiting internationally, Carr-Harris is a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Life Ian Carr-Harris was born in Victoria, British Columbia in ...

, artist, writer and educator,

Ontario College of Art & Design Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD U, is a public university, public art school, art university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its main campus is located within Toronto's Grange Park (neighbourh ...

, Toronto; Peter Dykhuis, Director/Curator,

Dalhousie Art Gallery The Dalhousie Arts Centre, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contains a number of theatres (including an outdoor rooftop theatre), Dalhousie Art Gallery, classrooms, and a sculpture garden. It remains the premier performing arts v ...

, Halifax;

Timothy Long Timothy Long (born December 19, 1967) is an American conductor and pianist with an active performing career in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma. He was born in H ...

, Head Curator,

MacKenzie Art Gallery The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG; ) is an art museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The museum occupies the multipurpose T. C. Douglas Building, situated at the edge of the Wascana Centre. The building holds eight galleries totaling to of ...

, Regina; Joan Stebbins, Curator Emerita,

Southern Alberta Art Gallery The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin (or SAAG) is a contemporary art gallery located in downtown Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It has three gallery spaces and a gift shop. History In 1974, local residents formed the Sout ...

; Gaétane Verna, Executive Director at Musée d'art de Joliette, QC.

2010

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Shary Boyle Shary Boyle (born May 26, 1972) is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture using the medium of ceramics, drawing, painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto. Early life and education Boyle wa ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art:

It was juried by Loise Déry, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Ken Lum, Jon Tupper.

2011

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist

Geoffrey Farmer Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) is best known for extensive multimedia installations made of cut-out images which form collages. Early career Farmer was born at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC in 1967 and grew up in the Dundarave neighbourhood ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Philip Monk It was juried by Catherine Crowston, Deputy Director / Chief Curator of the

; Barbara Fischer, Executive Director/Chief Curator, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto; Robert Fones, Visual Artist and Writer, Toronto; Angela Grauerholz, Director, Centre de design de l'UQAM, Professor, Artist, Montreal;

, Director/Curator of the

, Vancouver.

2012

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Lani Maestro Lani Maestro (born 1957) is a Filipino Canadians, Filipino-Canadian artist who divides her time between France and Canada. She works in installation, sound, video, bookworks and writing. Her works deal with investigations of memory, forgetting, la ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Nicole Gingras It was juried by Robert Enright, contributing editor, ''Border Crossings'' magazine, and a research chair in art theory and criticism at the University of Guelph; Michael Fernandes, artist;

Peggy Gale Peggy Gale (born 1944) is an independent Canadian curator, writer, and editor. Gale studied Art History and received her Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Toronto in 1967. Gale has published extensively on time ...

, independent curator; Stephen Horne, visiting scholar at the Jarislowsky Institute; Diana Nemiroff, curator and art historian.

2013

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Marcel Dzama Marcel Dzama (born May 4, 1974) is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings. Education Dzama ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Marie-Josée Jean It was juried by Eve-Lyne Beaudry, Robert Enright,

, Diana Nemiroff, Nigel Prince.

2014

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Kent Monkman Kent Monkman (born 13 November 1965) is a First Nations in Canada, First Nations artist of Cree ancestry. He is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation, Fisher River nation situated in Manitoba's Interlake Region. Monkman lives and works betwe ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence:

Daina Augaitis Daina Augaitis (born 1953) is a Canadian curator whose work focuses on contemporary art. From 1996 to 2017, she was the chief curator and associate director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia. Career Augaitis received a BES in Hon ...

It was juried by Lisa Baldissera – Chief Curator, Mendel Gallery; Robert Enright – Cultural journalist, writer and lecturer; Jenifer Papararo – Curator,

, Vancouver; Eric Walker – Painter and video artist; Sarah Watson – General and Artistic Director, Artexte.

2015

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist: Pascal Grandmaison * Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art:

Candice Hopkins Candice Hopkins (born 1977) is a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher who predominantly explores areas of art by Indigenous peoples. She is the executive director and chief curator at the Forge Project in New Yo ...

It was juried by

– Director, Galerie de l’UQAM;

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– Curator and cultural advisor; Anthony Kiendl – Executive Director and CEO,

; Lee-Ann Martin – Independent curator; Eric Walker – Senior visual and media artist.

2016

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist: Peter Morin * Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Tania Willard It was juried by Glenn Alteen, David Balzer, Marie-Éve Beaupré, David Garneau, Linda Graif.

2018

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist: Maria Hupfield * Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art: Daina Warren

2019

* Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist:

Dana Claxton Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a Hunkpapa, Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First ...

* Award for Curatorial Excellence: Catherine Bédard

2020

* Marianne Nicolson * Emelie Chhangur

2021

* Isabelle Hayeur * Heather Igloliorte

2022

* Michelle Jacques * Hajra Waheed

2023

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References

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