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IN THE NEWS
Shannon Garden-Smith – Artist Prize 2025
In an article posted on CBC Arts on November 20, 2025 Angel Callender features what she describes as the “stunning sand artwork” of Shannon Garden-Smith stating that Garden-Smith wants us to think about the crucial building material we’re running out of.
Alexa Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2024
There is a very interesting interview with Alexa Hatanaka in the December 5, 2025 edition of Aoyama Design Forum Webmagazine relating to her show In Patience and Persistence which was at the Prince Takamado Gallery of the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, Japan.
Alexa Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2024
Shellie Zhang – Artist Prize 2021
As part of the CBC Arts Trend Forecast, dozens of Canadian artists predicted the breakout stars of 2026. Most respondents gave shout outs to their contemporary artist peers including Alexa Hatanaka and Shellie Zhang.
Maria Hupfield – Artist Prize 2023
The Daily Journal in Franklin, Indianapolis favourably reviewed Electric Current, the exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum which includes work by Maria Hupfield.
Melissa General – Artist Prize 2021
Congratulations to Melissa General who was recognized at a reception at Onsite Gallery on November 20, 2025 for her long service as Director, Indigenous Initiatives at OCADU.
Vanessa Dion Fletcher – Artist Prize 2020
On CBC.ca is a video interview with Vanessa Dion Fletcher wherein she discusses how she used pool noodles to create what look like giant beadwork for her new installation at Art Windsor-Essex.
Camille Turner – Artist Prize 2018
Congratulations to Camille Turner who was one of the team (as artist and exhibition designer) who won the award for Exhibition Of The Year Budget Over $20,000 Monographic on December 1st, 2025 at the 48th Annual Ontario Galleries Awards held at the Toronto Reference Library for the exhibition Otherworld at Art Museum of the University of Toronto.
Lotus L. Kang – Artist Prize 2015
A huge congratulations to Lotus L. Kang whose exhibition at Walker 52 is included in the best art exhibitions of 2025, in Alex Greenberger’s article in Artnews published on December 9, 2025. He referred to it as an “astonishing follow-up to her Whitney Biennial presentation from last year”.
David Liss – Founders Achievement Award 2015
An article in The Toronto Guardian on December 24, 2025 titled “A Day in the Life of David Liss” provides interesting reading about David Liss.
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
Included in the year’s best books for Canadian architects and lovers of design as determined by Canadian Architect, is Richard Johnson: Resilience—Ice Huts and Root Cellars (2007–2021). Canadian Architect notes that the photographs in the book are complemented by texts from photographer and filmmaker Edward Burtynsky.
Shary Boyle – Artist Prize 2006
Esmaa Mohamoud – Artist Prize 2019
Metamorphoses: Visions of Antiquity in the Modern Era which includes work by Shary Boyle and Esmaa Mohamoud was favourably reviewed in The Silhouette on November 12, 2025.
IN AND AROUND TORONTO:
Shannon Garden-Smith – Artist Prize 2025
An artist talk with Shannon Garden-Smith was held at the University of Waterloo in person and virtually on December 1, 2025.
An exhibition of the work of Shannon Garden-Smith Dustjacket was held at MKG 127 Gallery until December 20, 2025. The exhibition emanated from a nineteenth century marbled pattern: the kind of pattern that proliferated as endpapers in Victorian books.
Emanuel Osahor – Artist Prize 2025
Other Territories | Autres Territoires, which was originally presented in June 2025 at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris and included work of Emanuel Osahor, is on at Nicholas Metivier Gallery until January 24th, 2026. The exhibition brings together 5 Canadian artists of African and Caribbean origin, and features more than 30 works and reimagines territory through lived experience rather than fixed geography. Their work speaks to the present while engaging in a dialogue with a reimagined, global art history.
Isabel Okoro – Artist Prize 2024
The work of photographers Yasmine Omar and Isabel Okoro was featured as part of One on One: Where We Bloom photo exhibition on November 27, 2025 at Its OK* Studios in Toronto. The event was in support of One on One, a core program of Kickback, a not for profit that welcomes a cohort of young women and girls each summer to step into the outdoors placing emphasis on how the outdoors can provide new opportunities to discover the world.
Shaheer Zazai – Artist Prize 2024
At the Art Museum of the University of Toronto until April 12, 2026 is an exhibition of the work of Shaheer Zazai and Whyishnave Suthagar. Both artists have created new bodies of work that engage with elements from their respective cultural heritage to create immersive, contemplative environments. Zazai’s installation, A Petal for a Petal, A Deed for a Deed—The Garden We Could Have Been, envisions a world where creation and destruction coexist.
FOR TRAVELLERS:
Elsewhere in Canada
Vessna Perunovich – Artist Prize 2005
The work of Vessna Perunovitch explores home, exile, and the shifting borders of identity will be part of the Festival Mouvement d’Arts Performatifs, 2nd Edition on March 12 & 13, 2026 at Galerie R3, Trois-Rivières Quebec.
South of the Border
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
The Art Museum and Galleries at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia is hosting an exhibition of work by Edward Burtynsky “Edward Burtynsky: Taking Place” in the Reeves Museum of Ceramics until April 18, 2026. This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how nature is deeply transformed through the human production of modern-day comforts.
Internationally
Alexa Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2023
Orbital, at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, brings together painting, sculpture, collage and prints by artists, including Alexa Hatanaka, who look to the cosmos not for escape, but as a way of reframing our relationship with the Earth and with one another. The exhibition is on until Feb 7, 2026.
Lotus L. Kang – Artist Prize 2015
From November 14 until December 18, 2025 Esther Schipper Berlin presented Borne, Lotus L. Kang’s first solo presentation with the gallery. On view was a large-scale Molt work from her series of photographic sculptures, and a floor-bound sculpture from the series Receiver Transmitter. Conceived especially for this presentation, the works expanded across the exhibition space, inviting visitors into intimate proximity. Lengths of unfixed industrial film—“skins” as Kang refers to them—were draped over and across raw steel tubes suspended from the ceiling.
Nadia Belerique – Artist Prize 2015
At PSM Gallery Schoneberger, Berlin until February 21, 2026 is a group exhibition Love is a Losing Game which includes work by Nadia Belerique and is curated by Philipp Lange.
Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
If you are in Seoul, Korea, the Seoul Museum of History is presenting the large-scale photography exhibition Burtynsky: Extraction /Abstraction by Edward Burtynsky, marking its first presentation in Asia in celebration of the Korea–Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, until March 2, 2026. This exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of more than 40 years of the artist’s practice.
And if you are in London, England this month the Flowers Gallery, Cork Street features a selection of Edward Burtynsky’s newest series Western Australia, Recent Works. Western Australia brings together the artist’s latest photographs of a region that marked a significant milestone in his early career, continuing Burtynsky’s longstanding engagement with sites of extraction and the evolving landscapes they shape.
Vessna Perunovich – Artist Prize 2005
If you happen to be in Novi Sad, Serbia this winter, the group exhibition “Intermedia Art” which presents work previously shown at the Centre for Intermedia and Digital Art will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, until March 1, 2026, and includes work by Vessna Perunovich.
