Audie Murray Named Winner of 2025 Ohpinamake Award

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Audie Murray with her photographic installation Chi Fii Embraces the Old Ones (2021). (photo by Ande Dawn)

Audie Murray has been named as the 2025 winner of the ohpinamake Prize for Indigenous Artists, an award presented annually by the University of Saskatchewan.

The $10,000 prize was created by Jim and Marian Knock in 2021. The word ohpinamake means “to lift others” in nêhiyawêwin (Cree).

“Murray is a multi-disciplinary Cree-Métis and Michif artist from Saskatchewan. She works with themes of contemporary Indigenous culture and ideas of duality and connectivity, drawing on time-honoured techniques and contemporary concepts to inform her material choices,” according to a news release from USask.

USask Art Galleries and Collection organizes the prize each year. This year, the jury who chose the winner included Tarah Hogue, Felicia Gay and the 2024 ohpinamake recipient Joi Arcand.

Priscilla Boulay, Brody Burns, Vanessa Hyggen and Natesa Medlicott-Kappo were the other artists shortlisted for the 2025 prize.

Source: University of Saskatchewan