The prize now recognizes 30 contemporary
visual artists with prize money rising to $465,000
OTTAWA,
ON, April 30, 2024 /CNW/ - The National
Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the
Sobey Art Foundation (SAF) today announced 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. Prize
money now totals $465,000. Funded by
the Sobey Art Foundation, this is the richest award in visual arts
in the country and one of the most generous in the world.
The 2024 Sobey Art Award longlisted artists are:
Circumpolar
Eldred
Allen
Casey Koyczan
Taqralik Partridge
Jason Sikoak
Jessica Winters
Pacific
Judy Chartrand
Sara Cwynar
Barry Doupé
Zoe Kreye
Peter Morin
Prairies
Erica Eyres
Audie Murray
Marigold Santos
Rhayne Vermette
Aikaterini Zegeye-Gebrehiwot
Ontario
June Clark
Sameer Farooq
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Oluseye Ogunlesi
Chrysanne Stathacos
Quebec
Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Miles Greenberg
Frances Adair Mckenzie
Eve Tagny
Nico Williams
Atlantic
Carrie Allison
Rémi Belliveau
Séamus Gallagher
Mathieu Léger
Lucas Morneau
"Congratulations to all 30 artists longlisted for the 2024 Sobey
Art Award. The longlist is an exciting moment to celebrate and
appreciate a wide range of artistic perspectives from the
nomination process, which yet again received incredibly strong
applications," said Jonathan
Shaughnessy, Director, Curatorial Initiatives, NGC, and
Chair of the 2024 Sobey Award Jury. "We are grateful to the
Sobey Art Foundation for increasing their annual support to
introduce the Circumpolar region, thereby enabling us to recognize
and learn from five more innovative artistic voices."
"On behalf of the Sobey Art Award Foundation, our warmest
congratulations to each of the deserving artists selected for the
2024 longlist," said Bernard
Doucet, Executive Director of the Sobey Art Foundation.
"Each year, we look forward to the Sobey Art Award longlist as an
incredible way to gain insight into Canada's contemporary cultural makeup. The
addition of five artists with a dedicated Circumpolar region brings
even more awareness to our country's great diversity and, in equal
measure, our shared experiences. Together with the National Gallery
of Canada, we are very proud of
this year's changes to the award and pleased to be furthering our
mission to propel Canadian contemporary art to national and
international audiences."
The 2024 Sobey Art Award shortlist and the names of the jury
members will be announced on June 11,
2024.
Works by the six shortlisted artists will be featured in a
special exhibition at the NGC from October
4, 2024, to March 16, 2025.
The winner will be announced on November 9,
2024, during an evening celebration at the Gallery.
For more information on the 2024 longlisted artists, please
visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sobey-art-award
About the Sobey Art
Award
The Sobey Art Award (SAA) is Canada's preeminent prize for Canadian
contemporary visual artists. Created in 2002 with funding from the
Sobey Art Foundation (SAF), the SAA has helped to propel the
careers of artists through financial support and recognition in
Canada and beyond. The SAA has
been jointly administered by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and SAF since 2016.
The past winners of the Sobey Art Award are: Brian Jungen (2002), Jean-Pierre Gauthier (2004), Annie Pootoogook
(2006), Michel de Broin (2007),
Tim Lee (2008), David Altmejd (2009), Daniel Barrow (2010), Daniel Young and Christian Giroux (2011), Raphaëlle de Groot
(2012), Duane Linklater (2013),
Nadia Myre (2014), Abbas Akhavan
(2015), Jeremy Shaw (2016),
Ursula Johnson (2017), Kapwani
Kiwanga (2018), Stephanie Comilang
(2019), Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (2021), Divya Mehra (2022) and Kablusiak (2023).
About the Sobey Art
Foundation
The Sobey Art Foundation was established in 1981 by the late
Frank H. Sobey who was a dedicated
collector of Canadian art. The Sobey Art Award was founded in 2002
as privately funded prizes for Canadian contemporary visual
artists. The award aims to promote new developments in contemporary
visual art and attract national and international attention to
Canadian artists.
About the National Gallery of
Canada
Ankosé – Everything is Connected – Tout est
relié
The National Gallery of Canada
(NGC) is dedicated to amplifying voices through art and extending
the reach and breadth of its collection, exhibitions program, and
public activities to represent all Canadians, while centring
Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Ankosé—an
Anishinaabemowin word that means "everything is connected"—reflects
the Gallery's mission to create dynamic experiences that open
hearts and minds, and allow for new ways of seeing ourselves, one
another, and our diverse histories, through the visual arts. NGC is
home to a rich contemporary Indigenous international art
collection, as well as important collections of historical and
contemporary Canadian and European art from the 14th to the 21st
century. Founded in 1880, NGC has played a key role in Canadian
culture for more than 140 years. For more information, visit
gallery.ca.
SOURCE National Gallery of Canada