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. Initially naming three regional winners, since 2004 there were one national winner and two honourable mentions. The first two competitions had only winner and runner-up. The competition had 15 finalists, five from three regions in Canada, Eastern Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador), Central Canada (Ontario), Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut). Three regional juries convened to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions from the 15 finalists. The national winner received a purchase prize of $25,000, the two honourable mentions each received $15,000 and the remaining 12 finalists receive $2,500 each. The winning work and the honourable mentions became part of the RBC Corporate Art Collection which holds more than 4,500 works. In 2016, 586 works were submitted. In 2008 an exhibition at the

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 ...

in Ottawa and the

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 ...

provided an overview of the first ten years of the competition. The RBC concluded the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2019.

1999

Canadian Emerging Artist Prize * Winner: Jennifer Walton * Runner-up:

Jeff Willmore Jeffrey John Willmore (born December 23, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in London, Ontario, whose work combines painting, performance and storytelling. His paintings are held in the collections of The University of Western Ontario, Museum Lon ...

Jury

* Bill Huffman * James Patten

2000

Canadian Emerging Artist Prize * Winner: Matthew Carver * Runner-up: Catherine Beaudette

Jury

* Andrea Bolley * Gary Michael Dault * Bill Huffman * David P. Solcox * Carl Skelton In 2001 the prize was renamed to RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and three regional winners were selected.

2001

Finalists

Western

* Brigitte Dion * Kristina Kudryk * Sharron Labatt * Gwenessa Lam * Ben Reeves (Regional Winner)

Central

* Mona Shahid * Patrice Stanley * Marian Wihak * Regina Williams (Regional Winner) * Shaan Syed (finalist 2003, 2004)

Eastern

* Reneé Duval * Eric Le Ménédeu (Regional Winner ) * Joanne Poirier * Fionnuala Reynolds * Joseph Siddiqi

Jury

Western

* Robin Laurence * Tracey Lawrence (gallerist) * Christina Ritchie

Central

* Gillian MacKay * Aaron Milrad * Pari Nadimi

Eastern

Alex Colville David Alexander Colville (August 24, 1920 – July 16, 2013) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Early life and war artist David Alexander Colville was born on August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, the second son of Scottish immigrant D ...

* Jerry Ferguson * Jan Peacock

2002

Finalists

Western

* Chris Bennet (Regional Winner) * Brigitte Dion * Holger Kalberg (finalist 2005 and jury 2013) * Séamus Kealy * Bernadette Phan

Central

* Melissa Doherty * Danny Hussey * JJ Lee (Regional Winner) * Mary McKenzie * Kelly Palmer

Eastern

* Carmelo Blandino * Dennis Eksted (Regional Winner) * Camille Girard-Ruel * Asa Johnna Westin

Jury

Western

Chris Cran Chris Cran (born 1949 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia) is a Canadian visual artist, based in Calgary, Alberta. Cran's work "investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed...Widely exhibited across Can ...

* Catherine Crowston * Mary Scott

Central

* Eliza Griffiths * Leo Kamen * Kitty Scott

Eastern

* Stéphane Aquin * Roger Bellemare *

Janet Werner Janet Werner (born 1959) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her work is known for its incisive and playful depictions of female figures, raising questions about the nature of the subject in painting. Biography Janet Werner was born in 1959 ...

2003

Finalists

Western

* Chris Dorosz (Regional winner) * July Duschenes * Cliff Eyland * Val Nelson * Jeff Tutt

Central

* Martin Bennett * Jordan Broadworth * Chris Rogers (Regional winner) * Shaan Syed (finalist 2001, 2004) * Pearl Van Geest

Eastern

* Martin Brouillette * Peter Dykhuis (Regional winner) * Caroline Gagnon * Robert Truszkowski * Marilyn McAvoy

Jury

Western

* Bob Boyer *

Wanda Koop Wanda Koop is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As well as being an artist, she is a community activist and founded Art City, a free community art centre for inner city youth in Winnipeg (1998). Life ...

* Paul Kuhn

Central

* Robin Metcalfe * Sarah Milroy * Kim Moodie * Joanne Tod

Eastern

* Jocelyne Aumon * Ingrid Jenkner * Jeffrey Spalding Revised in 2004 to name five finalists per region, one national winner and two regional winners.

2004

Finalists

Western

* Monique Blom * John Eisler * Mark Mullin * Jim Park * Brad Phillips (Regional winner)

Central

* Andrew Morrow *

Soheila Esfahani Soheila Esfahani is an Iranian peoples, Iranian-born artist and educator, working in Canada. She is an assistant professor at University of Western Ontario. Esfahani is known for her installation art and sculptures. Esfahani was born in Tehran, I ...

* Alexander Irving * Dionne Simpson (National Winner) * Shaan Syed (finalist 2001, 2003)

Eastern

* Adele Chong * Jennifer Dorner * Patrick Lundeen * Andrea Mortson * Laurel Smith (Regional winner)

Jury

Western

* Kent Archer, director and curator, Kenderdine Art Gallery Saskatoon, SK * Riko Nakasone *

Jane Ash Poitras Jane Ash Poitras LL. D. D.Litt (born October 11, 1951) is a Cree painter and printmaker from Canada. Her work uses the idioms of mainstream art to express the experience of Aboriginal people in Canada. Life Jane Ash Poitras was born in Fort Ch ...

Central

* Jan Allen * Will Gorlitz * Olga Korper

Eastern

* Pierre Dorion (jury 2008) * Gemey Kelly * Gordon Laurin

2005

Finalists

Western

* Chris Millar (finalist 2007) * Matthew Brown * Holger Kalberg (jury 2013) * Krisdy Shindler * Étienne Zack (National winner, jury 2009)

Central

* Chris Down * Jason Gringler * Meghan McKnight * Kristine Moran (Regional winner) * Nick Ostoff

Eastern

* Paul Berhardt * Yang Hong * Chris Kline * Wil Murray * Mathew Reichertz (Regional winner)

Jury

Western

* Lisa Baldissera * Yves Trépanier *

Landon MacKenzie Landon Mackenzie (born 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She is known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she continues as Professor Emeritu ...

Central

* Shirley Madill * Linda Book * Ben Reeves

Eastern

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 ...

* René Blouin * Alex Livingston

2006

Finalists

Western

Abbas Akhavan Abbas Akhavan is a Montreal-based visual artist. His recent work consists of site-specific installations, sculpture, video, and performance, consistently in response to the environment in which the work is created. Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran ...

* Matthew Brown (Regional Winner) * Dave & Jenn * Holger Kalberg (jury 2015) *

Mélanie Rocan Mélanie Rocan (born 1980) is a Canadian artist from La Broquerie, Manitoba. She works mostly in various paint mediums. She also has been known to work in multimedia, especially when working collaboratively. Education Rocan began her undergradu ...

Honourable mention

Central

* Adam Brickell (Regional winner) * Kim Dorland * Martin Golland (finalist 2008, 2009) * Dax Morrison * Fançois Xavier Saint-Pierre

Eastern

* Nicolas Grenier * Dil Hildebrand (National Winner) * Jonathan Johnson * Daniel Langevin * Luce Meunier

Jury

Western

* Wayne Baerwaldt * Eleanor Bond * Andy Sylvester

Central

* John Brown * Barbara Fischer * Patrizia Libralato

Eastern

* Shauna McCabe * Lilian Rodriguez * Eric Simon Naming one national winner and two honourable mentions rather than regional winners started in 2007

2007

Finalists

Western

* Eli Bornowsky (finalist 2008, 2010) * Arabella Campbell (National Winner) * Angus Ferguson * Saun Morin * Chris Millar (Honourable mention, finalist 2005)

Central

* Melanie Authier (honourable mention) * Kim Dorland * Jennifer Lefort * Anders Oinonen * Ben Pinkney

Eastern

* Elizabeth Grant * Nam Nguyen * Aleksandra Rdest *

* Justin Stephens

Jury

Western

* Paul Butler * Ron Moppett * Reid Sheir

Central

* John Hartman *

Ben Portis Ben Portis (December 9, 1960 – July 20, 2017) was a Canadian artist, curator, and critic working in the fields of contemporary art including sound art, performance, music, and architecture. Biography Portis had an MFA from the University of ...

* Mary Sue Rankin

Eastern

* Peter Dykhuis * Pierre-François Ouelette * Michele Thériault

2008

Finalists

Western

* Eli Bornowsky (finalist 2007, 2010) * Andrew Dadson * Jeremy Hof (National winner) * Collin Johanson * Lorenzo Pepito

Central

* Martin Golland (finalist 2006) * Sarah Jane Gorliz * Amanda Reeves (Honourable mention) * Drew Simpson * Emmy Skensved

Eastern

Patrick Howlett Patrick Howlett is a Canadian visual artist born in Toronto, Ontario on September 17, 1971. He is currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Howlett obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal in 1997 and completed a Master of Fine ...

* Rick Leong * Wil Murray (Honourable Mention, Finalist 2005) *

Jeanie Riddle Jeanie Riddle (born c. 1954) is an American politician from Missouri. A Republican, she served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 49th District in Callaway County and as a member of the Missouri Senate from the 10th Di ...

* Justin Stephens

Jury

Western

* Neil Campbell * Monte Clarke * Kitty Scott

Central

* Jessica Bradley * James Lahey * David Liss

Eastern

* James Baird * Loise Déry * Pierre Dorion (jury 2004)

2009

Finalists

Western Canada

Noah Becker Noah Becker (born 1970) is an American and Canadian artist, writer, publisher of ''Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art'', and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City and Vancouver Island. He has written for '' Art in America'' Mag ...

– Victoria * Brenda Draney (National winner) – Vancouver, BC for ''Aim is Important'' * Dave & Jenn – Calgary * Ryan Peter – Vancouver * Joseph Tisiga – Whitehorse

Central Canada

* Sarah Cale – Toronto * Janice Colbert – Toronto * Scott Everingham – Toronto * Martin Golland (Honourable mention, finalist 2006, 2008) – Toronto, ON for ''Residential Night Vulture'' * Sasha Pierce (Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON ''Brown''

Eastern Canada

* Julie Beugin – Montreal * Anthony Burnham – Montreal * Pierre Durette – Montreal *

Daniel Hutchinson Daniel Hutchinson (''fl.'' 1650s) was an Irish Protestant Dublin merchant who supported the Cromwellian Occupation of Ireland. During the Interregnum he served as Mayor of Dublin, a member of parliament of the Barebones and First Protectorate ...

– Halifax * Nathalie Thibault – Quebec

Jury

Western

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 ...

, Artist, Vancouver * Nancy Tousley, Senior Art Writer,

Calgary Herald The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The C ...

* Kathleen Ritter, Assistant Curator,

Vancouver Art Gallery The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size. Designed by Fr ...

Central

* Benjamin Diaz, Director, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto * Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Curator, Contemporary Art,

* John Kissick, Artist & Director, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph

Eastern

* Victoria Page, Owner, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax * Nathalie de Blois, Curator of Contemporary Art,

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for ...

* Etienne Zack, (winner 2005) Artist, Montreal

2010

Finalists

Western

* Eli Bornowsky (finalist 2007, 2008, jury 2015) – Vancouver * Aaron Carpenter – Vancouver * Megan Hepburn – Vancouver * Laura Piasta – Coquitlam * Melanie Rocan – Winnipeg

Central

* Sarah Cale – Toronto * Scott Everingham – Toronto * Jon Reed (Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON for ''Stato di Impotenza'' * Mark Stebbins (Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON for ''Data Centers' * Beth Stuart (finalist 2011, jury 2016) – Toronto

Eastern

* Hugo Bergeron – Montreal * Scott Bertram – Halifax * Benjamin Klein – Montreal * Alexis Lavoie (National Winner) – Montreal, QC for ''Restants'' * Rick Leong – Montreal

Jury

Western

* Renée Van Halm, Vancouver artist * Jennifer Papararo, curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver * Mary Reid, curator of contemporary art and photography at the

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 ...

Central

* Joe Friday, Ottawa collector * Joanne Tod, Toronto artist * Michael Gibson, director of Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON

Eastern

* Mathew Reichertz, artist, Halifax * Simon Blais, owner Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal * Paulette Gagnon, director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

2011

Finalists

Western Canada

* Rebecca Brewer (National Winner) – Vancouver, BC for ''Beuys painting'' * Thomas Chisholm – Victoria, BC * Bitsy Knox – Vancouver, BC * Deirdre McAdams (Honourable Mention) – Vancouver, BC for ''Blotto'' * Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline – Winnipeg, MB

Central Canada

* Jessica Groome – Guelph, ON * Tristram Lansdowne – Toronto, ON *

– Toronto, ON * Kim Neudorf – London, ON * Beth Stuart (Honourable mention, finalist 2010, jury 2016) – Toronto, ON for ''02, from Doppelbanger series''

Eastern Canada

* Julie Trudel – Montreal, PQ * Amy Schissel – Gatineau, PQ * Jared Peters – Saint John, NB * Ianick Raymond – Montreal, PQ * Adam Gunn – Halifax, NS (2013 finalist)

Jury

Western

* Elizabeth McIntosh, Senior Artist and Associate Professor, Emily Carr University, Vancouver * Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver * Diana Sherlock, Curator & Visual Arts Writer, Calgary

Central

* Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto * Christopher Cutts, Director, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto *

, (finalist 2008) Senior Artist, London

Eastern

* Donald Browne, Director, Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal * Suzanne Funnell, Associate Professor,

NSCAD University NSCAD University, also known as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), is a public art university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university is a co-educational institution that offers bachelor's and master's degrees. The unive ...

, Halifax * Francois LeTourneux, Associate Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

2012

Finalists

* Betino Assa – Montreal, QC * Ahbyah Baker – Vancouver * Thomas Chisholm – Victoria * Jordy Hamilton – Vancouver * Andrea Kastner – Edmonton * Katie Lyle (Honourable mention) – Vancouver, BC for ''White Night''

Central

*Colin Muir Dorward – Ottawa *Aleksander Hardashnakov – Toronto *David Hucal – Guelph *Vanessa Maltese (National winner) – Toronto, ON for ''Balaclava'' *Jenna Faye Powell (Sarnia).

Eastern

* Betino Assa (Honourable mention) – Montreal for ''Gathering in the forest, 12 am'' * Philip Delisle (Halifax) * Nicolas Rancellucci (Montreal) * Corri-Lynn Tetz (Montreal) * Julie Trudel (Montreal).

Jury

Western Canada * Sandra Meigs - Senior Artist and Professor of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria * Mark Mullin - Senior Artist, Calgary * Nigel Prince, executive director of th
Contemporary Art Gallery
in Vancouver Central Canada * Clint Roenisch - Founder, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto * Jonathan Shaughnessy – associate curator, contemporary art at th
National Gallery of Canada
ref name=":6" /> * Monica Tap - Senior Artist and Associate Professor, University of Guelph, Guelph Eastern Canada * Roger Bellemare - Gallery Director, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal * Robin Metcalfe - Director and Curator, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax *

- Senior Artist, Montreal (2002 jury)

2013

Finalists

Western Canada

* Jessica Bell – Vancouver *

Colleen Heslin Colleen Heslin (born 1976) is a Canadian mixed-media artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Heslin works predominantly with textiles and quilting to create an abstract compositions. Personal life Heslin was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Lon ...

(National winner) – Vancouver for ''Almost young, wild and free'', 2013 * Brian Kokoska (2016 finalist ) – Vancouver/New York * Rachelle Sawatsky – Vancouver/Los Angeles * Sean Weisgerber – Saskatoon

Central Canada

* Jennifer Carvalho – Toronto * Colin Muir Dorward – (Honourable mention, 2012 finalist) Ottawa, ON for ''Labyrinthineon,'' 2012 * Scott Everingham – Toronto (2010 finalist) * Laura Findlay – Guelph, Ont. * Neil Harrison (Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON ''for Fig.13 Knowledge,'' 2013

Eastern Canada

* Brendan Flanagan – Montreal * Adam Gunn – Halifax (2011 finalist) * Nathaniel Hurtubise – Montreal * Jessica Mensch – Montreal/Brooklyn, N.Y. * Aaron Weldon – Halifax

Jury

Western Canada

* Ian Wallace - Senior Artist, Vancouver * Holger Kalberg (finalist 2005) - Artist and Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg * Ryan Doherty - Curator,

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 ...

, Lethbridge

Central Canada

* Sarah Milroy - Art critic, Toronto * Daniel Faria - Gallery Director, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto *

Carol Wainio Carol Wainio (born 1955) is a Canadian painter. Her work, known for its visual complexity and monochrome color palette, has been exhibited in major art galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and China. She has won multiple awards, including the G ...

- Artist and Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Eastern Canada

* Stéphane Aquin – curator of contemporary art

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space. The museum is located on the historic Golden Square Mile stretch of Sherbrooke Street west. The MMFA ...

* Pan Wendt – curator

Confederation Centre Art Gallery The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG; ) is an art museum that forms a part of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The art museum pavilion forms the northeast portion of the Confederation Centre ...

* Isa Tousignant – writer and editor

2014

Finalists

Western Canada

* Ashleigh Bartlett – Calgary, AB for ''Ballet Duo'' * Ufuk Gueray (Honourable mention) - Winnipeg, MB for ''Market,'' 2014 B * Tiziana La Melia (National winner) – Vancouver, BC for ''Hanging on to the part,'' 2014 * Laura Piasta – Vancouver, BC * Robert Taite – Winnipeg, MB

Central Canada

* Jennifer Carvalho (finalist 2013) – Toronto, ON * Wallis Cheung – Toronto, ON * James Gardner – Toronto, ON * Gavin Lynch – Ottawa, ON\ * Megan McCabe – Toronto, ON

Eastern Canada

* Carly Butler – Halifax, NS * Teto Elsiddique – Halifax, NS * Karine Fréchette – Montreal, QC * Nicolas Lachance (Honourable mention) – Montreal, QC ''index no. 3 The book of Empathy,'' 2014 * Elysanne Tremblay – Montreal, QC

Jury

West

* Naomi Potter, Director and Curator, Esker Foundation, Calgary * Melanie O'Brian, Director, SFU Galleries, Burnaby * Catriona Jeffries, Owner and Director,

Catriona Jeffries Gallery Catriona Jeffries is an art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, that has been in operation since 1994. It focuses on the post conceptual art practices which have emerged from Vancouver and the critical relationships between these practices an ...

, Vancouver

Central

* Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art,

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 ...

, Hamilton * Robert Houle, Senior Artist, Toronto * Will Kucey, Owner and Director, LE Gallery, Toronto

East

* Anthony Burnham, Artist, Montreal * Mark Lanctôt, Curator,

, Montréal * Deborah Carver, Owner and Director, Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery, Halifax

2015

Finalists

Western

*Tristan Unrau – Vancouver, BC *Robert Taite – Winnipeg, MB *Russell Leng – Vancouver, BC *Megan Hepburn – Vancouver, BC *Simon deBrée – Vancouver, BC/Stockholm, Sweden

Central

* Jessica Bell - Ottawa, ON * Patrick Cruz (National winner) – Guelph (Ontario) for ''Time allergy,'' 2015 * Hanna Hur - Toronto, ON/Los Angeles, CA * Caroline Larsen - Toronto, ON *
Claire Scherzinger
(Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON for ''My Contribution To The Many Paintings Of Pots And Plants,'' 2015

Eastern

*Andrew Maize - Lunenberg, NS *John Player - Montreal, QC * Cindy Phenix - Montreal, QC *Paul Hardy - Montreal QC *Hangama Amiri (Honourable mention) – Halifax, NS ''Island of Dreams,'' 2015 Halifax, NS

Jury

East

* Hugues Charbonneau – Director, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal * Melanie Colosimo – Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax * John Zeppetelli – Director & Chief Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

Central

* Iga Janik – Curator, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge *

Georgiana Uhlyarik Georgiana Uhlyarik-Nicolae, also known as Georgiana Uhlyarik (born 1972) is a Romanian-born Canadian art curator, art historian, and teacher. She is currently the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). She ...

- Associate Curator, Canadian Art,

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; ) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street, Dundas Street West in the Grange Park (neighbourhood), Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up of phys ...

, Toronto * Jinny Yu – Artist & Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

West

* Eli Bornowsky – Artist, RBC Canadian Painting Competition Finalist (2007, 2008, 2010), Vancouver * Garry Neil Kennedy – Senior Artist, Vancouver * Lisa Kehler – Director, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg

2016

Finalists

Western

* Cameron Forbes (Honourable mention) – Saskatoon, SK for ''Maritime Plaza Hotel, Window Set 2'', 2016 * Brian Hunter (National winner) – Winnipeg, MB for ''Two empty trays mounted vertically'', 2015 * Brian Kokoska – Vancouver, BC/New York, NY for ''Dancing to the Silence of your Heartbeat'', 2016 3* M.E. Sparks – Vancouver, BC for ''Afterimage'', 2016 * Angela Teng – Vancouver, BC for ''Jump Shot'', 2016

Central

* Wallis Cheung – Toronto, ON for ''Frame as void'', 2016 4* Alex Fischer – Toronto, ON Pet, for ''Casper and Hesperi'', 2016 4* Stephanie Hier – Toronto, ON for ''Break like the wind'', 2015 * Hanna Hur – Los Angeles, CA for ''The Fool'', 2016 * Keita Morimoto – Toronto, ON for ''Aya in Tokyo'', 2015 4

Eastern

* Nika Fontaine (Honourable mention) – Berlin, DE for ''Schnell Schnell'', 2015 * Andrew Maize (2015 finalist) – Lunenburg, NS for ''THIS TOWN USED TO BE MOSTLY WHITE. NOW IT IS COLOURFUL'', 2016 * Justine Skahan – Gatineau, QC for ''Home'', 2016 * Geetha Thurairajah – Sackville, NB for ''Hotlines'', 2016 * Ambera Wellmann – Guelph, ON for ''Wunde'', 2015

Jury

Western Canada

* Sophie Brodovitch - Director, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver * Tammi Campbell - Artist, Saskatoon * Reid Shier - Director/Curator,

Presentation House Gallery The Polygon Gallery (formerly known as the Presentation House Gallery) is an art gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest non-profit photographic gallery in Western Canada and has operated since 1981. Work began ...

, Vancouver

Central Canada

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 ...

- Artist, Toronto * Georgia Scherman - Director, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto * Beth Stuart - Artist & 2010 & 2011 RBC Canadian Painting Competition Alumni, Toronto

Eastern Canada

* Gemey Kelly - Director/Curator, Owens Gallery, Mt. Allison University, Sackville * Harold Klunder - Artist, Montreal * Saelan Twerdy - Art Critic, Montreal

2017

Finalists

* Michael Freeman Badour for ''Patrick's Boots'', 2017 * Amanda Boulos for ''Duckie Wants Water,'' 2017 * Teto Elsiddique (Honourable mention) – Halifax, NS for ''neckrings, a breezy thing'', 2017 * Cindy Ji Hye Kim for ''Conspiracy Theory,'' 2017 * David Kaarsemaker for ''Portage 1,'' 2017 * Wei Li for ''Obsessiveness and excitement, never growing out of them,'' 2017 * Laura Payne for ''Enneadec II,'' 2017 * Veronika Pausova (Honourable mention) – Toronto, ON for ''Typography'', 2017 * Laura Rokas-Bérubé for ''Paint by Number 7,'' 2017 * M.E. Sparks for ''Hollow Dog,'' 2017 * Kizi Spielmann Rose for ''Sun and a Tide Pool,'' 2017 * Angela Teng for ''Line Dance (Pink and Black for Mary Heilmann),'' 2016 *

Joani Tremblay Joani Tremblay (born 1984) is a Canadian painter living and working in Pioneertown, California and Montreal, Quebec. Tremblay has exhibited internationally at venues including James Cohan Gallery, New York; Harper's, New York and Los Angeles; Ma ...

''The Lure of the Local Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society,'' 2017 * Tristan Unrau for ''Nun, After Pasolini,'' 2017 * Ambera Wellman (Winner) – Guelph, ON for ''Temper Ripened'', 2007

2018

Finalists

* Amanda Boulos (Winner) for ''In the Morning'' * Keiran Brennan Hinton for ''Hotel Room'' * Krystle Coughlin for ''Untitled'' * Sarah Davidson for ''the garden at night'' * Angela Fermor for ''Portrait 7, Torso'' * Karine Fréchette for ''Croissance 1'' * Stephanie Hier for ''Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs'' * Ally McIntyre for ''Coyote'' * Emmanuel Osahor (honourable mention) for ''Hiding Place'' * Lauren Pelc-McArthur for ''Trop Trop'' * geetha thurairajah (honourable mention) or ''A complicated relationship with our past makes for better stories of a future'' * Kizi Spielmann Rose for ''Swallowtail'' *

for ''The Mind at Three Miles an Hour'' * Tristan Unrau for ''Doggy Dog Afternoon'' * Joy Wong for ''Cotton and Cheese 1''

Jury

* Natasha Chaykowski * Mark Igloliorte * Crystal Mowry * Erin Stump * Alexandra McIntosh * Julie Trudel *

Cynthia Daignault Cynthia Daignault (born 1978) is an American painter. Her work is often described as rigorous and intense. Daignault is also a writer and musician and curator. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Biography Daignault was born and grew up ...

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