January 14, 2010 - HALIFAX, NS - The 2010 Sobey Art Award is officially accepting nominations for this year’s prize. The $50,000 award is Canada’s premier visual art award given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
The five finalists of the 2010 Award will be announced in June 2010. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal from October 8, 2010 to January 3, 2011. The winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award will be announced during a Gala event at the Musée d’art contemporain in November 2010.
The 2010 curatorial advisory panel is made up of five distinguished representatives from a Canadian art gallery in each of the five regions: the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and the North, and the West Coast and Yukon.
The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2010.
For more information contact:
Sarah Fillmore | Chief Curator | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
1723 Hollis Street | PO Box 2262 | Halifax NS B3J 3C8
902.424.5169 tel
902 424 7359 fax
gov.ns.ca The
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is responsible for accepting nominations for the 2010 Sobey Art Award, from recognized agents and institutions. A panel of curatorial advisors, consisting of a representative from a noted gallery in each of five regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies /North, and West Coast), develops the shortlist for the Award. The curatorial panel creates a list of five artists from each region; these are selected from the list of nominated artists, and based on their professional knowledge of their regions and of the national art scene. The curatorial panel then meets and chooses one representative from each region to be included on the national shortlist. The panel will choose the winner in the fall of 2010.
In 2002, the Sobey Art Foundation created the largest art award for a Canadian artist under 40. Since its inception the Sobey Art Award and accompanying exhibition have been organized and administered by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The Sobey Art Foundation was established in 1981 with a mandate to carry on the work of entrepreneur and business leader, the late Frank H. Sobey, of collecting and preserving representative examples of 19th and 20th century Canadian art. One of the finest private collections of its kind, the Sobey Art Foundation has assembled exemplary examples from Canadian Masters like Cornelius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson and J.E.H MacDonald. The collection is housed in an intimate setting at Crombie House, the former home of Frank Sobey and his wife Irene in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Tours are regularly scheduled throughout the summer months and by appointment year round.
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