Tania Willard Wins Sobey Art Award, Canada’s Top Contemporary Honor
The 2025 Sobey Art Award winner is Tania Willard. The mixed Secwépemc and settler artist from BC accepted the $100,000 prize at the National Gallery of Canada.
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RBC Award for Glass 2025 Goes to Gordon Boyd
The RBC Award for Glass 2025 goes to Gordon Boyd, a rising star in contemporary glassmaking. This is Canada’s only national award for emerging glass artists.
Chantal Khoury Wins the Prestigious Joseph Plaskett Award in Painting
Joseph Plaskett, Award, Chantal Khoury, Painting, Contemporary Art, Canada, Visual Art, avant-garde, Competition, Postgraduate Program
Photographic Artist Andreas Rutkauskas Wins Prefix Prize
Photographic Artist Andreas Rutkauskas is the winner of the second annual Prefix Prize worth $2,000.00. He also receives an exhibition and publication.
Art Toronto 2018 Exhibitor List Includes Nine New Galleries
Visitors examining works on display at Canada’s international contemporary and modern art fair. Art Toronto 2018 is expected to attract more art […]
Stolen Banksy Print Raises Security Question At Art Shows
Toronto Police Service continues to search for Trolley Hunters, a stolen Banksy print. The artwork was stolen from The Art of Banksy […]
Baltimore Folk Music Fans Are Ready For The East Pointers
Fiddler/singer Tim Chaisson, banjoist Koady Chaisson and guitarist Jake Charron, members of The East Pointers, the Canadian folk music group that will […]
Anne-Marie Cosgrove’s Giant Paintings Are Moments of Reflection
Giant, an acrylic on canvas painting measuring 72 x 48 inches, is one of the giant paintings in Anne-Marie Cosgrove’s new exhibition […]
Canadian National Exhibition Returns With So Much Fun
Canadians wait excitedly for the annual Canadian National Exhibition to begin with all the fun and celebrations
La Biennale de Montréal Appoints Philippe Pirotte as Curator
Philippe Pirotte: La Biennale de Montréal 2016 Curator. Image courtesy of BNLMTL 2016 ART NEWS Philippe Pirotte’s appointment expected to bring fresh […]
Creative Spirit Guides Tiziana La Melia to Artistic Discovery
Painter Tiziana La Melia, the winner of the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, is a restless soul possessed by a Creative spirit
Canadian Artist Anne-Marie Cosgrove Questions Limits of Narrative
Anne-Marie Cosgrove, Superman 2010, acrylic on board, 24 x 30 x 2 in.Canadian Artist. Image courtesy of the artist ARTIST/PAINTER BY KAZAD […]
Canadian Painting Competition Winner Announced in Montreal
Tiziana La Melia with Hanging on to the Part, the painting that won her the Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Image courtesy […]
Sexual Adventure of Sex Idiot Ends with Self-realization
A Sex Idiot goes on an awkward Sexual Adventure in search of who gave her a Sexually Transmitted Infection in a captivating dance performance
Painting Competition: Royal Bank of Canada Announces Finalists
Who will win RBC’s Canadian Painting Competition $25,000 cash prize? The excitement amongst emerging Canadian visual artists grows.