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Sobey Art Award 2023
Sobey Art Award 2023

Sobey Art Award

Championing visual arts in Canada, the Sobey Art Award is one of the most generous prizes for contemporary artists in the world.

Discover the 2023 shortlisted artists

Founded in 2002, the Sobey Art Award is funded by the Sobey Art Foundation (SAF) and organized and presented by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). The Award propels the careers of artists through financial support and recognition in Canada and beyond. 

This year, a total of $400,000 in prize money will be awarded: $100,000 to the overall winner, $25,000 to each of the shortlisted artists, and $10,000 to the remaining long-listed artists. In addition, the five shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Fall 2023.

 

"Congratulations to each of the five artists shortlisted for this edition of the Award. Year after year, we are amazed at the standards of excellence produced by contemporary artists from across the country."

Bernard Doucet, the Sobey Art Foundation’s Executive Director

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Sobey Art Award 2023: The Shortlist

The five finalists of the Sobey Art Award 2023 are Michèle Pearson Clarke, Séamus Gallagher, Kablusiak, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill and Anahita Narouzi.
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Divya Mehra, Afterlife of Colonialism, a reimagining of Power: It’s possible that the Sun has set on your Empire OR Why your voice does not matter: Portrait of an Imbalanced, and yet contemporary diasporic celebrating an inheritance of loss through occup
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Sobey Art Award 2022: Divya Mehra

Through her artworks Mehra refuses to allow the erasure of difficult realities among diasporic communities, and calls out the nation-state and the systems of oppression it upholds.
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Tyshan Wright, Installation view, 2022 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada
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Sobey Art Award 2022: Tyshan Wright

Halifax-based Tyshan Wright works at the intersection of contemporary art and traditional Maroon culture and craft of Jamaica.
November 4, 2022
Azza El Siddique, Azza El Siddique, Measure of One, 2020, steel, expanded steel, water, unfired slip clay, slow-drip irrigation system, EPDM pond liner, cement bricks
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Sobey Art Award 2022: Azza El Siddique

Informed by the ancient history of present-day Sudan, including Egyptian and Nubian mythology, El Siddique’s installations embody her curiosity about the ever-changing physical world and the possibilities of...
November 2, 2022
Krystle Silverfox, Installation view, 2022 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Sobey Art Award 2022: Krystle Silverfox

Interdisciplinary artist Krystle Silverfox explores Indigenous feminism, de-colonialism, lived experience and connections to the land through sculpture and photography.
October 28, 2022
Stanley Février, The End of a World (detail), 2017–22, plaster, wood, glass, electric candles, 2 metal votive candle stands, funerary wreath
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Sobey Art Award 2022: Stanley Février

In his work, interdisciplinary artist Stanley Février employs strategies of institutional critique to expose discrimination and cultural erasure in the art world.
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