November 2025 Edition
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IN THE NEWS
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2023
Nadia Belerique – Artist Prize 2015
Congratulations to Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka and Nadia Belerique whose artwork will be part of the 2026 launch of the Lassonde Art Trail.
Sandra Brewster – Artist Prize 2018
In the November 4, 2025 issue of CBC Arts, Chris Hampton profiled Sandra Brewster and her work describing her practice as “images that shift, fade and emerge” and stating that her art is “about being”.
Erika Defreitas – Artist Prize 2016
Congratulations as well to Erika DeFreitas on the publication of Its Because of the Shimmer, the verge and the yet by the Doris McCarthy Gallery.
Derek Liddington – Artist Prize 2011
Congratulations to Derek Liddington whose work “with eyes wide, the leaves rustled in the fall breeze at dusk, I could see the goblins grip, the devils face and the legs outstretched frantic to escape” was acquired by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection at Art Toronto 2025.
Jon Sasaki – Artist Prize 2009
Congratulations to Jon Sasaki whose recent exhibition Making do with the Photons that Linger After the Sun has Set at Clint Roenisch Gallery was very favourably reviewed by Rosie Prata in Nuovo Magazine.
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
Another very favourable review this month of a recent exhibition of the work of Edward Burtynsky. This one in the December 2025 issue of The Atlantic by Andrew Aoyama about his exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery New York.
Kelly Mark – Artist Prize 2002
Ashley Diana Culver wrote a very thoughtful review of the exhibitions across Toronto celebrating the work of the late Kelly Mark for CBC Arts.
Tau Lewis – Artist Prize 2019
In the October 29, 2025 issue of Frieze Magazine Camile Bacon profiled Tau Lewis and her debut performance No one ascends from the underworld unmarked (2025) at the Performa Biennial in New York, wherein she channeled the Sumerian poem The Descent of Inanna, exploring the enduring influence it has on her practice.
There is an interesting article worth a read in the Art Newspaper on whether art can be as good for your health as exercise. New York’s Healing Arts Week Festival and ‘The Lancet’ medical journal have both focused on ways in which the arts can heal the mind and body.
IN AND AROUND TORONTO:
Couzyn Van Heuvelen – Artist Prize 2024
Congratulations to Couzyn Van Heuvelen on the installation of Arctic Char Steaks (2021-2023), featured in Couzyn van Heuvelen: CAMP at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
San Mazinani – Project Support Evergreen 2024
One of the artists whose work forms part of a group exhibition Canadian Photographs 1950 – Present at Stephen Bulger Gallery until December 20, 2025 is San Mazinani. The exhibition presents a selection of works that highlight the evolution of photography over the past seventy-five years and its important role in documenting history.
Robert Houle – Founders Achievement Award 2020
At Home in Toronto, on until January 4, 2026 at The Market Gallery, St. Lawrence Market, is an exhibition in which a group of artists including Robert Houle address the question: ”What does home mean to you?”
Mark Bell – Artist Prize 2004
Out of Order is an exhibition of newly created work by six artists including Mark Bell who have presented their work together previously in disused industrial spaces. The works endeavor to inhabit the space completely, challenging each other’s autonomy and suggesting uncontrolled and unpredicted relationships that seek to find common ground in discord rather than homogeneity. The exhibition is on at Beauty SupplyRoom until November 22. Bell will also have a show at Paul Petro Contemporary Art from February 13 – March 21, 2026.
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2023
Shary Boyle – Artist Prize 2006
Winnie Truong – Project Support STEPS 2021
Patel Brown Toronto is presenting a group exhibition “Patel Brown: Five Years of Art, Collaboration & Community” on until December 20, 2025 which includes work by Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Shary Boyle and Winnie Truong.
David Liss – Founders Achievement Award 2015
On December 4, 2025 Koffler Arts will welcome prominent figures of the Canadian punk and grunge movements, to examine the origin of these subcultures in Toronto, and the strong legacy they left to the underground scene in a panel discussion to be moderated by David Liss. This event is inspired by Tracey Snelling’s counter-culture aesthetics in the exhibition on view there, Intergalactic Planetary.
FOR TRAVELLERS:
South of the Border
Maria Hupfield – Artist Prize 2023
On until February 22, 2026 at Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis is an exhibition of the work of five contemporary Native American or First Nations Artists whose concentration and practice exemplify the spans of multimedia art forms, including Maria Hupfield, who have been awarded the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. As part of this biennial program, artwork from each artist is purchased by the museum and added to its permanent collection.
Anique Jordan – Artist Prize 2020
Sandra Brewster – Artist Prize 2018
If you are in Los Angeles in the coming months, check out Driftwork, curated by Essence Harden which begins with the notion of remnants: fragments that persist after departure, traces that endure past erasure, impressions that hover in the space between consciousness and reverie. The exhibition includes work by Anique Jordan and Sandra Brewster and is at Southern Guild until January 26, 2026.
International
Sandra Brewster – Artist Prize 2018
One of the artists participating in Bubuia: Waters as a Source of Imaginations and Desires, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin in Colombia is Sandra Brewster. This first Bienal das Amazônias is a celebration of the ethical and cultural relationship between waters and the bodies that move in them, float on them, and let themselves be carried by them.
Alexa Komiko Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2023
Nadia Belerique – Artist Prize 2015
In addition to the work of Nadia Belerique, the Walk & Talk Biennial in Sao Miguel, Azores includes work of Alexa Komiko Hatanaka. The works in this exhibition summon the sea as a body in motion, at once intimate and planetary, capable of exposing the tensions between local knowledge and global systems of exploitation. The exhibition ends November 30, 2025.
