Montreal’s Nadia Myre wins $50,000 Sobey Art Award

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WINNIPEG – Montreal’s Nadia Myre has won this year’s $50,000 Sobey Art Award.

The multi-disciplinary artist, who is an Algonquin member of Quebec’s Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, was longlisted for the same prize for the past three years.

She beat out fellow finalists Evan Lee, Chris Curreri, Graeme Patterson and joint nominees Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier for this year’s honour at a gala at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Wednesday.

The other finalists each receive $10,000.

Last year’s Sobey Art Award winner was Duane Linklater.

A curatorial panel praised Myre for having a “distinctive visual vocabulary by translating her experience and that of others into works that employ traditional crafts within a contemporary, multidisciplinary practice.”

“Her artwork creates a symbolic image of wounding and resilience that conveys something deeply human while addressing urgent social concerns,” the panel said in a statement.

Myre’s work addresses themes of history, memory and experience.

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia organizes and administers the award, which was created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation. Honoured is an artist aged 40 or under who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.

The works of artists on this year’s short list are on view at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Jan. 18.

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