The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Sobey Art Foundation today announced the 25 artists longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent contemporary art award. With prize money totalling 400,000 CAD, this is the richest award for contemporary visual arts in the country, and one of the most generous in the world. The annual prize is funded by the Sobey Art Foundation.
The 2023 Sobey Art Award longlisted artists are:
Atlantic
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux
Séamus Gallagher
Will Gill
Alan Syliboy
Aislinn Thomas
Quebec
Anahita Norouzi
Geneviève & Matthieu
Laura Acosta and Santiago Tavera
arkadi lavoie lachapelle
Renée Condo
Ontario
Alvin Luong
Barry Ace
Michèle Pearson Clarke
Pejvak (Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari)
Rah Eleh
Prairies & North
Keeley Haftner
Kablusiak
Wally Dion
Marigold Santos
Catherine Blackburn
West Coast and Yukon
Justine A. Chambers
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Woojae Kim
Christine Howard Sandoval
Douglas Watt
“Congratulations to the longlisted artists whose works present a wide range of media, perspectives and lived experiences that reveal new ways of seeing ourselves, each other, and our diverse histories,” said Jonathan Shaughnessy, Director, Curatorial Initiatives, National Gallery of Canada, and Chair of the 2023 Sobey Award Jury. “The Gallery’s long-lasting partnership with the Sobey Art Foundation is strengthening the futures and community of the visual arts in and across Canada, and brings well-deserved national and international recognition to many of this country’s most thoughtful and innovative artistic voices.”
“On behalf of the Board of the Sobey Art Foundation, I extend our warmest congratulations to the 25 remarkable artists selected for the 2023 longlist. We are grateful to them and all 2023 nominees who have shared their practices with this process. Collectively, the Sobey Art Award nominees reflect the dynamic diversity and the shared experiences that make up the Canadian identity. Each year, the longlist demonstrates truly unique and inspiring perspectives from artists across the country, including this time a number of collaborative artistic practices” said Bernard Doucet, Executive Director, the Sobey Art Foundation. “We look forward to celebrating all of these practices with audiences from across Canada through our esteemed partner, the National Gallery of Canada.”
The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, and the winner on Saturday, November 18, 2023, during a special evening celebration at the NGC. Works by the five shortlisted artists will be featured in a special exhibition at the NGC from October 13, 2023, to March 3, 2024.
For more information, including biographies of the 2023 longlisted artists, please visit National Gallery of Canada link here.
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Josée-Britanie Mallet, Senior Officer, Media and Public Relations, National Gallery of Canada: bmallet@gallery.ca
