As fall approaches, we invite you to visit our prize recipients’ current exhibits and events!
Maria Hupfield—Artist Prize 2023
An installation by the Native Art Department International (NADI), a collaborative long-term project, created and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan, will be featured in the Barrie, ON exhibition, Seeds to Sow, from September 27 to November 8.
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At the third Toronto Biennial of Art, Hupfield collaborates with storyteller and multi-instrumentalist, Olivia Shortt, and transmedia artist and UofT professor of black studies, SA Smythe, in relation to her commission, The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan). This program takes place September 21 to December 1.
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Do You Remember Love, curated by NADI and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan, opened at the Art Gallery of Guelph on September 12.
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Ghazaleh Avarzamani—Artist Prize 2022
Ghazaleh Avarzamani will be a speaker at Shore Time, an international gathering celebrating the intersections of art, design, economy, ecology, and foodways, on Fogo Island, NL. Ghazaleh is currently an artist-in-residence on Fogo Island.
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Sameer Farooq—Artist Prize 2022
Sameer Farooq is among the 30 artists longlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent contemporary visuals arts award. This year, Circumpolar was added as a sixth nomination region, increasing representation from across the country.
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Farooq presents The Flatbread Library, co-commissioned and co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre from September 21 to December 1.
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Jen Aitken—Artist Prize 2021
This fall, contemporary sculptor Jen Aitken presents her first overseas solo exhibition, Ten Clouds – Dialogue on Contemporary Form and Space, in Shanghai, at the Yearly Plan House.
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Tau Lewis—Artist Prize 2019
Tau Lewis’ Spirit Level is at the Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston from August 2024 – January 20, 2025. This is her first solo museum exhibition in the US.
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Sandra Brewster—Artist Prize 2018
Sandra Brewster is juror for the SPAO Photo Walk, an ongoing and evolving outdoor installation featuring large-scale photographic artworks designed to enhance Ottawa’s Little Italy neighbourhood.
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She is also featured in Border Crossings: Photography, Issue 165, reflecting on her body of work, “Blur”.
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Make Trouble (2024) is a newly commissioned four-panel photo-based installation by Sandra Brewster, on view at the Toronto Biennial of Art, from September 21 to December 1.
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Shellie Zhang—Artist Prize finalist 2018
Shellie Zhang is one of the artists featured in the SPAO Photo-Walk. Click for more information
Nep Sidhu—Artist Prize 2017
Nep Sidhu was one of the artists featured in the exhibition It comes to me in waves at the Patel Brown Gallery.
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Erika DeFreitas—Artist Prize 2016
Erika DeFreitas is part of Love Languages at Art Windson-Essex, a group exhibition that equates artistic production to love.
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Isabel Okoro—Artist Prize 2024
Isabel Okoro’s diptych, In Greeting and Gladness (2023), was featured in Olga Korper Gallery’s annual Summer Group Show.
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Elisa Julia Gilmour—Project Support Award 2024
Elisa Julia Gilmour’s short film, Aida Neither/ Aida Non Plus, had its World premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September as part of the TIFF Short Cuts series.
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