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The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts are Canada’s foremost distinctions for excellence in visual and media arts. These awards were created in 1999 through a partnership of the Canada Council for the Arts and then Governor General of Canada, Roméo LeBlanc.
As of 2007, up to eight awards are available annually: up to six awards of $25,000 each are available for distinguished Artistic Achievement in visual and/or media arts; one award of $25,000 is available for the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts; and one award of $25,000 is available for Outstanding Contribution to recognize an individual or group for outstanding contribution to contemporary visual and/or media arts. An independent peer jury of senior visual and media arts professionals selects the winners.
List of artists from the Art Bank collection that have won Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts:
2008
Kenojuak Ashevak, Cape Dorset, NU
Michel Goulet, Montréal, QC
Alex Janvier, Cold Lake, AB
Eric Metcalfe, Vancouver, BC
Shirley Thomson, Ottawa, ON (former Director of the Canada Council for the Arts)
2007
Aganetha Dyck, Winnipeg, MB
Ian Carr-Harris, Toronto, ON
Murray Favro, London, ON
Fernand Leduc, Montréal, QC
Daphne Odjig, Penticton, BC
David Silcox, Toronto, ON (one of the contributors of "Art at Work")
Paul Mathieu, Vancouver, BC
2006
Mowry Baden, Victoria, BC
Micheline Beauchemin, Les Grondines, QC
Vera Frenkel, Toronto, ON
Peggy Gale, Toronto, ON (one of the contributors of "Art at Work")
Kenneth Lochhead (deceased)
Arnaud Maggs, Toronto, ON
2005
Carl Beam (deceased)
Lynne Cohen, Montréal, QC
Roland Poulin, Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir, QC
Françoise Sullivan, Montréal, QC
Paul Wong, Vancouver, BC
2004
Iain Baxter, Windsor, ON
Eric Cameron, Calgary, AB
Garry Neill Kennedy, Halifax, NS
Ian Wallace, Vancouver, BC
2003
Robert Archambeau, Winnipeg, MB
Alex Colville, Wolfville, NS
Gathie Falk, Vancouver, BC
Betty Goodwin, Montréal, QC
Walter Harris, Hazleton, BC
Takao Tanabe, Parksville, BC
Suzanne Rivard LeMoyne, Montréal, QC (Founder of the Art Bank)
2002
AA Bronson, Toronto, ON
Charles Gagnon, Montréal, QC
Edward Poitras, Regina, SK
Barbara Steinman, Montréal, QC
Irene F. Whittome, Montréal, QC
2001
Tom Dean, Toronto, ON
Jamelie Hassan, London, ON
Liz Magor, Vancouver, BC
2000
Jocelyne Alloucherie, Montréal, QC
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Montréal, QC
John Chalke, Calgary, AB
John Scott, Toronto, ON
Michael Snow, Toronto, ON
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