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The winner, selected by the Sobey Art Award’s curatorial panel, will be announced at a gala held at the ROM on October 1, 2008.
“The ICC at the ROM is pleased to host the Exhibition of the 2008 Sobey Art Award this year in Toronto,” said Francisco Alvarez, Managing Director of the ICC. “This diverse group of talented young artists has created thought-provoking works in various media that demonstrate the vitality of contemporary art in our country today. We look forward to the announcement of this year's winner.”
“The Award exhibition is our opportunity to introduce new audiences to some of the best young Canadian artists working today, and we are thrilled to do so at the Royal Ontario Museum,” said Ray Cronin, Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Curator of the Sobey Art Award. “Throughout this year's process I have been impressed by the professionalism of the shortlisted artists and the dedication of both the staff of the ROM and of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. They have never stinted to make this exhibition the best possible. Our sponsors, the Sobey Art Foundation and Scotiabank have provided the much-needed financial support to mount what is the most ambitious Award exhibition in our history.”
The Sobey Art Award is Canada's pre-eminent prize for a young Canadian artist and represents the remarkable breadth of practices that make up contemporary Canadian art. The Award, organized and administered by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, is presented annually to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
A panel of curatorial advisors, consisting of a representative from a major gallery in each of five regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and the North, and West Coast), selects one artist from each region for the national shortlist. Recent works by the five finalists are included in the Award’s annual exhibition. The panel chooses one winner who will be announced this year at a gala ceremony at the ROM on Wednesday, October 1, 2008. -- www.rom.on.ca
Posted August 26th, 2008 by ruzik_tuzik
