The penultimate decision is in. The jury for the 2017 Sobey Art Award has announced the five finalists for the prestigious prize: interdisciplinary artist Ursula Johnson, representing Atlantic Canada;...
A 1955 collision, familial trauma, post-war tensions and narratives of desire converge in Geoffrey Farmer’s exhibition at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Water drips, spurts and runs through a fountain courtyard and...
How do you stick 20,000 letter-faced coins to a gallery wall? With graph paper, 20,000 pinpricks and a lot of concentration. Watch as Micah Lexier's I Am the Coin is installed at the National Gallery of Canada...
From intimate portraits of life on the fringes to experimental film and cartographic paintings, the works of this year’s recipients of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts are among the most...
Musqueam artist Susan Point’s work is deeply rooted in her Coast Salish roots. But she is equally dedicated to a contemporary practice using traditional methods, symbols and iconology. The spindle whorl is...
In this video conversation between artist Alex Janvier and NGC curator Greg Hill — filmed during the opening Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master — Janvier discusses his life and work. The exhibition is on...
At 81 years of age, Garry Neill Kennedy remains one of this country’s most influential visual artists, educators and proponents of the arts. His work can currently be seen as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery’...
Canadian artist Melanie Authier deliberately seeks out chaos, conflict and contradictions as fodder for her abstract paintings. The results are what she calls “a brimming jostle of pictorial oppositions,”...
Multidisciplinary artist Jeremy Shaw, winner of the 2016 Sobey Art Award, is known for his edgy, highly intimate film and video depictions of altered states of being in fashion, dance, science, religion and...
Part archaeologist, part translator and part storyteller, Zin Taylor sees words and language as shapes, then digs deeper to unearth cultural references reflecting people, places, events and eras.
