2019 Sobey Art Award

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AGA, "2019 Sobey Art Award," 2019

The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada are delighted to announce the opening of the 2019 Sobey Art Award exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. The exhibition presents the work of the five outstanding Canadian artists who have been shortlisted for the 2019 Sobey Art Award.

About the 2019 shortlisted artists and their work:

·        From the Ontario region, Stephanie Comilang’s video works follow Paraiso, a Tagalog speaking “drone” who documents Filipino diasporic experiences.

·         From the Quebec region, Nicolas Grenier uses painting and the coding of colour to investigate political, economic, cultural and social spaces.

·         From the Prairies and North region Kablusiak uses humour to cope with their cultural displacement and is creating a methodology for inventing cultural connections from an urban perspective.

·         From the West Coast and Yukon region Anne Low uses sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to investigate how forms can detach from their historical context to speak to contemporary notions of the domestic and the decorative. 

·         From the Atlantic region D’Arcy Wilson’s art examines a colonial relationship to the natural world from her perspective as a descendant of European settlers.

The Sobey Art Award recognizes the best Canadian artists forty years old and under as selected by an international jury of curators and art gallery directors. Curated by Lindsey Sharman, Curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta, the exhibition presents over 35 works, spanning from video-based installations and audience participation to paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs. These five artists exemplify the impressive scope of contemporary Canadian art. 

“The work by this year’s shortlisted artists is incredibly varied and their diverse ways of working makes for a really interesting exhibition,” said Lindsey Sharman. “There are some crossovers of themes though, there is an attention to language running through the exhibition and there is definitely an interest in looking at colonial structures and colonial legacies.”

Curator's Tour on Saturday, October 26, from 1 - 2 pm. Free tickets for these events are available by visiting youraga.ca/sobey - courtesy of The Sobey Art Foundation.