Sobey Art Award 2024
Sobey Art Award 2024

2024 Sobey Art Award Exhibition

In collaboration with the Sobey Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Canada is proud to present works by six artists from across the country who have been shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award.

Each of the shortlisted artists’ dynamic practices provide invaluable insights into matters of place, identity, community and belonging.

The installation by Taqralik Partridge (Inuk, Scottish) expresses the intergenerational importance of caribou to Inuit and other arctic Indigenous peoples through an amautik (child-carrying garment) and video. Judy Chartrand (Cree) employs mixed-media approaches to confront colonial narratives, racism and stereotypes. Through multi-layered storytelling, Métis filmmaker Rhayne Vermette creates poetic work centred on family, home, distance and identity. June Clark adopts a multidisciplinary practice to explore how personal and family histories, memory and identity intersect. Nico Williams (Anishinaabe) draws upon rich histories of intergenerational practices through his beadwork sculptures of everyday objects, often made collaboratively. Mathieu Léger navigates his Acadian heritage within a global context to examine how ancestry informs present experience through physical actions. 

A special complimentary publication on the six finalists will be available to all on-site visitors.

Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Sobey Art Foundation

Date

Until April 6th, 2025

Location

National Gallery of Canada
Contemporary Galleries
B203, B204
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4
Canada

Artwork

Featured
Videos

2024 Sobey Art Award – Taqralik Partridge

Taqralik Patridge
Circumpolar

 

2024 Sobey Art Award – Judy Chartrand

Judy Chartrand
Pacific

 

2024 Sobey Art Award – Rhayne Vermette

Rhayne Vermette
Prairies

 

2024 Sobey Art Award – June Clark

June Clark
Ontario

 

2024 Sobey Art Award – Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ

Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ
Quebec

 

2024 Sobey Art Award – Mathieu Léger

Mathieu Léger
Atlantic

 

ᐃᓄᒃᑐᑦ 2024 Sobey Art Award – Taqralik Partridge

Taqralik Patridge
ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ​ (in English and Inuktitut)

Circumpolar