Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, an Iqaluit-based Inuk multidisciplinary artist known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance, has won this year's Sobey Art Award for emerging artists.
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and her family were asleep in their cabin near Iqaluit when the artist and her husband awoke to hear the sounds of a large and curious visitor on the deck.
The façade of the Sursock Museum in Beirut on August 5, 2020.
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Rémi Belliveau is shown in this handout image. The contenders represent five regions of Canada, and each gets $25,000 as well as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada from Oct. 8, 2021 to Feb. 20, 2022.
They include: Belliveau of Atlantic Canada, Lorna Bauer of Quebec, Rajni Perera of Ontario, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory of the Prairies and North, and Gabi Dao of the West Coast and Yukon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-The Sobey Art Foundation
OTTAWA The Sobey Art Foundation has announced five artists shortlisted for its newly expanded $100,000 visual art prize.
The contenders come from five regions of Canada, and each gets $25,000 as well as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada from Oct. 8, 2021, to Feb. 20, 2022.