Deadline February 2
The Sobey Art Award, Canada’s premiere award for visual artists, is now accepting nominations for the 2009 award. The $50,000 award is given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. A prize of $5,000 is given to each of the four runners-up.
Please visit www.sobeyartaward.ca for details and nomination guidelines.
The 2009 Sobey Art Award curatorial advisory panel will be made up of five distinguished representatives, each from an art gallery located in five regions across Canada. The panelists representing the Atlantic Provinces, Québec, Ontario, Prairies and The North, and the West Coast and Yukon will be announced in early-January. The five finalists of the 2009 Sobey Art Award will be announced on May 1, 2009. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and will run from September to October of 2009. The winner of the 2009 Sobey Art Award will be announced at the AGNS in the fall of 2009.
For more information please contact: Robert Zingone 902-424-3001 [email protected] OR
Sarah Fillmore 902-424-5169 [email protected]
Sobey Art Award c/o Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 1723 Hollis St. Box 2262, Halifax, NS B3J 3C8 CANADA
902-424-7542
www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca
2009 Sobey Art Award Shortlist Announced – Five artists in the running for $70,000
Halifax, May 1, 2009 – The Curatorial Panel of the 2009 Sobey Art Award today announced the names of five exceptional Canadian artists selected for the 2009 Sobey Art Award Shortlist:
For the West Coast and Yukon: Luanne Martineau; for the Prairies and The North: Marcel Dzama; for Ontario: Shary Boyle; for Québec: David Altmejd; and for the Atlantic: Graeme Patterson.
"Faced with the benefit of a uniformly strong selection of candidates, the jury came to a unanimous consensus on this year's shortlist. Addressing both the local and the global, these artists make works that encapsulate materiality and conception, scale and complexity, representation and irrationality. Each artist shares a depth of commitment to their creation and exploration of idiosyncratic worlds that are real, imagined, and fantastical.” 2009 Curatorial Panel
Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and will run from September 5 to November 5 of 2009.
The winner of the 2009 Sobey Art Award will be announced during a gala event at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on October 15, 2009.
The 2009 Sobey Art Award Curatorial Panel comprises: Liz Wylie, Curator, Kelowna Art Gallery; Kitty Scott, Director, Visual Arts – The Banff Centre; Ivan Jurakic, Curator, Cambridge Galleries; Louise Déry, Director, Galerie de l'UQAM; Terry Graff, Curator & Deputy Director; Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
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