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Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts

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:

2013
Marcel Barbeau
Rebecca Belmore
Greg Payce
Colette Whiten

2012
Geoffrey James
Ron Martin
Royden Rabinowitch

2011
Geneviève Cadieux
Robert Fones
Michael Morris
David Rimmer
Shirley Wiitasalo

2010
Robert Davidson
Rita Letendre
Tom Sherman
Gabor Szilasi
Claude Tousignant

2009
John Greer
Nobuo Kubota
Rita Lynn McKeough
Gordon Smith
Kim Ondaatje
Anthony Urquhart

2008
Kenojuak Ashevak
Michel Goulet
Alex Janvier
Eric Metcalfe
Shirley Thomson (former Director of the Canada Council for the Arts)

2007
Aganetha Dyck
Ian Carr-Harris
Murray Favro
Fernand Leduc
Daphne Odjig
David Silcox (one of the contributors of "Art at Work")
Paul Mathieu

2006
Mowry Baden
Micheline Beauchemin
Vera Frenkel
Peggy Gale (one of the contributors of "Art at Work")
Kenneth Lochhead
Arnaud Maggs

2005
Carl Beam
Lynne Cohen
Roland Poulin
Françoise Sullivan
Paul Wong

2004
Iain Baxter
Eric Cameron
Garry Neill Kennedy
Ian Wallace

2003
Robert Archambeau
Alex Colville
Gathie Falk
Betty Goodwin
Walter Harris
Takao Tanabe
Suzanne Rivard LeMoyne (Founder of the Art Bank)

2002
AA Bronson
Charles Gagnon
Edward Poitras
Barbara Steinman
Irene F. Whittome

2001
Tom Dean
Jamelie Hassan
Liz Magor

2000
Jocelyne Alloucherie
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth
John Chalke
John Scott
Michael Snow

 

 

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