Wintry weather doesn’t slow down our prize winners. Here are some of their latest activities.

New Acquisitions

Lotus L. Kang, Artist Prize 2021

Kang‘s In Cascades, 2023-24 was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. For more information, click here.

Currently on View

Around Toronto

Maria Hupfield, Artist Prize 2023

The Art Gallery of Guelph’s new show, Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Indigenous Artists at AGG, includes work by Maria Hupfield. The exhibit closes May 4. Read more here.

Vessna Perunovich, Artist Prize 2005, Coco Guzman, Artist Prize 2017, Sandra Brewster, Artist Prize 2018

These TFVA prize winning artists are part of the exhibition, Fortitude/Fragile, currently at the OCADU Onsite Gallery. “The artworks in  Fortitude/Fragile  … underscore the importance of regenerative learning and cultivate an atmosphere steeped in mutual respect and tolerance.”  For more information, click here
View the exhibit booklet here.

Sandra Brewster will deliver an artist’s talk at the OCAD University Auditorium on Tuesday, March 4 at 7 pm. This talk is part of the Kim Pruesse Speakers series Art Creates Change. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, click here

Camille Turner, Artist Prize 2018

Otherworld, Camille Turner’s first major solo museum exhibition, is at the Art Museum at University of Toronto. Turner is widely recognized for her transformative examination of Black history in the Canadian national narrative. The exhibition runs until March 22. Read more here.

Gallery TPW, Project Support 2025

Grounded through a desire for connection and joy, The Celestial Collective is a contemplative journey into the realm of Indigenous identity. Smoke Signals x Reflections will create a welcoming space by Two-Spirit artists through multiple projects. For more information click here.

For Travellers

Erika DeFreitas, Artist Prize 2016

Calgary’s  Esker Foundation launched its winter season with a trio of solo exhibitions including Erika DeFreitas’ and that break is the one that shows (to shift, a curve, to quiver). The exhibit closes April 27. Read more here.

John Sasaki, Artist Prize 2009

Trust Fall, a collaboration between John Sasaki and Laura Gildner, is on at the Nanaimo Art Gallery until April 13. Find more information here.

John Sasaki also has an exhibition at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery. Homage, curated by Sarah Milroy (Project Support, 2011) and organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and a new work commissioned by The University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, I Contain Multitudes, are on display until April 26. Read more here.

Tau Lewis, Artist Prize 2019

Spirit Level, by Tau Lewis is at the David Zwirner Gallery, Los Angeles, through March 29. For more information, click here.

Recently Closed

Shaheer Zazai, Artist Prize 2024

Zazai’s solo exhibition, Another word for translation. Another thread for thought., was at the Latcham Art Centre, Stouffville. Access the brochure for this exhibit here.

Shellie Zhang, Artist Prize 2021

Zhang was one of the artists featured in the show, From Electrical Fires Fire Spirits May be Kindled, at the Two Seven Two Gallery. For more information, click here.

Shannon Garden-Smith, Artist Prize 2025

Tracks and traces and changes, 2024, works created by Shannon Garden-Smith, were on view in The Goldfarb Vitrines at The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery at York University. For more information on Garden-Smith, and her recent conversation at the gallery with Kai Recollet, click here.

Public Events

BAND Gallery, Project Support 2024

Curator eunice bélidor’s lecture, Handle with Care – Curatorial Practices After the Pandemic, at the Onsite Gallery at OCADU was co-presented by BAND Gallery. This lecture is Onsite Gallery’s annual Black History Month lecture. Read more here.

Shary Boyle, Artist Prize 2006

In January, Shary Boyle gave a public lecture and delivered a workshop for NSCADU (University of Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design) students at the  Halifax Central Library.

In the Media

Anique Jordan, Artist prize 2020

Anique Jordan’s Underbelly, which ran at the Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto, spring 2024, has been reviewed in C Magazine. Read the review here.

Travelling Artists 

Alexa Hatanaka, Artist Prize 2023

Hatanaka is currently an artist in residence at Black Rock in Senegal. To read more about this program, click here.