The Sobey Foundation for the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced on Wednesday the names of the five artists in the running for the 2022 Sobey Prize, the winner of which will be announced this fall in Ottawa. Quebecer Stanley Juillet is one of the five finalists, alongside Tyshan Wright (Atlantic), Azza El Siddique (Ontario), Divya Mehra (Prairies and North) and Krystle Silverfox (West Coast and Yukon). The works of the five artists will be exhibited at the NGC next fall.
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Founded in 2002, the Sobey Prize is funded by the Sobey Foundation for the Arts to the tune of $400,000, of which $100,000 is given to the winner, $25,000 to each of the remaining four finalists and $10,000 to each of the 20 finalists. Brian Jungen, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Annie Pootoogook, Michel de Broin, David Altmejd, Daniel Barrow, Raphaëlle de Groot, Nadia Myre, Abbas Akhavan and Kipwani Kiwanga have already won this award in the past.
Stanley February has been very fashionable for a year. He presented, at the end of 2021, Possible lives/Menm vye tintin at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides before deploying another part of it at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec where the exhibition is on display until October 16. The artist of Haitian origin will also present, from June 15 and until August 28, the exhibition Museum of Current Art/Department of Invisibles (MAADI) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. With the works of 27 Quebec artists and a statement aimed at criticizing the province’s museum institutions for their lack of openness to diversity. See you next Wednesday!