The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. Sobey, who...
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Art Foundation, an art foundation founded by Frank Sobey Sobey Art Award, Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists Sobeys Slam, a former Grand...
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Frank Hoyse Sobey, OC (May 24, 1902 – December 15, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who was the primary builder of the Sobeys chain of...
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was awarded the first prize at the Biennale of Contemporary African Art, DAK’ART in Sénégal. He was among the winners of the 2020 Sobey Art Award. His...
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Jason de Haan received the Sobey Art Award, Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. Makiko Hara Sobey Art Award In 1996, the Edmonton Journal...
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Zadie Xa (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
in 2020, and Frieze Live 2020. In 2020, Xa was a recipient of the Sobey Art Award, Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. Xa was born in...
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Ray Cronin (category Canadian art curators)
founding curator of the Sobey Art Award and served as chair of the Sobey jury until 2008. He currently serves on the Sobey Art Award Governance Committee...
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Divya Mehra (section Selected awards)
artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mehra was awarded the 2019 Wanda Koop Research Fund. She received the Sobey Art Award, presented annually by the National Gallery...
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Stephanie Comilang (section Awards)
Comilang". Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada. Retrieved 2020-03-11. "Stephanie Comilang: Winner of the 2019 Sobey Art Award". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved...
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Abbas Akhavan (section Awards and honours)
recipient of the Kunstpreis Berlin (2012), the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2014), and the Sobey Art Award (2015). Domestic spaces, as negotiated between hospitality...
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Wanda Nanibush (category Canadian art curators)
collaboration with her fellow Art Gallery of Ontario curator Georgiana Uhlyarik and was a jurist for the 2023 Sobey Art Award. Nanibush is a member of the...
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installation art, performance, video art and photography. De Pauw was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was a shortlist nominee for the 2011 Sobey Art Award...
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Annie Pootoogook (section Recognition and awards)
Pootoogook was named the first Inuk recipient of the prestigious Sobey Art Award. A new category was even created in order for her to be nominated:...
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Hajra Waheed (category School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni)
Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Canadian Mid-Career Visual Artist. She was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2016. Waheed's...
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Nicolas Grenier (artist) (section Awards)
City of Montreal in 2016 and was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2019. The Progressive Art Collection (USA) Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal[failed...
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Maggie Groat (section Awards)
mention in the art book category for ALMANAC, which Groat had edited. In 2015 and 2018, Groat was nominated and long listed for the Sobey Art Award. In 2012...
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Jon Rafman (category School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni)
Quebec twice as a finalist in the competition for the 2015 and 2018 Sobey Art Award. In 2018, Parisian fashion house Balenciaga commissioned Rafman to...
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Montréal. Bauer was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2021. "Bauer, Lorna". Collections | MNBAQ. "Sobey Art Award 2021". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved...
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Jeneen Frei Njootli (category Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni)
Indigenous women in the media. As one of the five finalist of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Njoottli's work, wind sucked in through bared teeth (2017) is included...
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Venice Biennale. Gill was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada's preeminent contemporary art award, in 2004, 2006 and 2023. "Like many university...
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Tiziana La Melia (category Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni)
represent the West Coast & Yukon for the 2015 Sobey Art Award in Canada. The Sobey Art Award is an annual award that celebrates Canada's most exciting young...
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Jacynthe Carrier (section Awards and collections)
arts + opinions". esse.ca. "Sobey Art Award nominees highlight our differences". thestar.com. October 23, 2017. "Sobey Art Award exhibition questions the...
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Kapwani Kiwanga (section Awards)
video works, and has received the following awards for her work: 2018: Frieze Artist Award 2018: Sobey Art Award 2018: ADAGP-Etant donnés 2020: Marcel Duchamp...
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site. January 22 – The value of Canada's leading contemporary art award, the Sobey Art Award, is increased to a total of $100,000. February 7 – The British...
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Sarah Anne Johnson (section Awards)
Winnipeg Now, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 2012: My Winnipeg, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 2011: Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,...
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Anne Low (category Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni)
2019: Sites of the Future, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 2019: Sobey Art Award, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta 2019: Berlinale: 14th Forum...
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Karen Tam (category School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni)
en art actuel from the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec in 2016, and long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2010 and 2016. She was awarded the...
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Rajni Perera (section Awards)
New Empire 1 by Rajni Perera Ontario region finalist for Sobey Art Award, 2021 MOCA Toronto Award, 2022 Her distinctive artist's way of dressing has made...
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Ursula Johnson (section Awards)
colonial history, tradition, and cultural practice. In 2017, she won the Sobey Art Award. Ursula A. Johnson was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1980. She was...
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Brenda Draney (category Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni)
Landmark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project, Art Gallery of Alberta, (April 28 – Nov. 11 2019) Sobey Art Award, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (2016/2017)...
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