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Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams wins Canada’s top art prize
The Montréal-based artist, known for his intricate sculptural beadwork, received the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2024
Finalists for Canada’s top art prize, the Sobey Art Award, revealed
From an initial field of 30 nominees, a shortlist of just six artists is now competing for the prize
Pool of artists vying for Canada’s top art prize expands with addition of new regional category
Thirty artists are nominated for the Sobey Art Award this year, with the total purse for the award growing to C$465,000
Inuvialuk artist Kablusiak wins Canada’s top art prize
The 2023 Sobey Art Award went to the Calgary-based artist, who is known for her wide-ranging, multidisciplinary approach that incorporates and reimagines Inuk traditions
Canada’s new two-dollar coin features detail of Jean Paul Riopelle painting
Three million of the coins, affectionately known as “toonies”, will go into circulation to mark the artist’s centennial
Indigenous artists in the spotlight at this year’s Armory Show
The fair's Focus section, curated this year by Candice Hopkins, includes strong representation of Native American and First Nations artists
Climate activist smears pink paint on Tom Thomson canvas at National Gallery of Canada
A man was arrested following the action, which was organised by the Canadian activist group On2Ottawa
Finalists revealed for Canada’s top contemporary art prize
The winner of the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2023 will be announced in November
Jean-François Bélisle to succeed Angela Cassie as National Gallery of Canada director
NGC's new director, formerly chief curator of Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec, enters the organisation at a turbulent time in its management
Shows, plays and pavilions at home and abroad mark Canadian modernist Jean Paul Riopelle's centennial
The pioneering abstract painter’s legacy will be front and centre in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris and elsewhere
National Gallery of Canada reopens after tumultuous end to 2022
From an exhibition celebrating Canadian women artists to a major centennial retrospective of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museum has ambitious plans for 2023
Canada's National Gallery abruptly lays off four senior staff, including chief curator and Indigenous art curator
In an internal memo to staff, the museum's interim director wrote that the sudden changes were made "to better align the gallery’s leadership team with the organisation’s new strategic plan"
Divya Mehra wins Canada’s top art prize, the Sobey Art Award
The Winnipeg-born artist’s work spans many media and often incorporates humour all the while addressing issues of identity, repatriation and cultural consumption
Shortlisted artists revealed for Canada’s 2022 Sobey Art Award
Works by the finalists vying for the country’s top contemporary art prize will go on view at the National Gallery in Ottawa in October
Director of Canada’s National Gallery will be next leader of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
In Philadelphia, Sasha Suda will succeed Timothy Rub, whose 13-year tenure included both major achievements and significant turmoil
Subversive Canadian art collective General Idea go mainstream with major Ottawa show
A major retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada aims to make the trio's “complex practice a bit more accessible”
National Gallery of Canada launches an Indigenous ways and decolonisation department
The new department, which pursue greater inclusivity and representation of Indigenous perspectives and art, will be led by Michelle LaVallee and Steven Loft
Inuit artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award
The prize, Canada’s largest for contemporary art, represents a C$100,000 windfall for the winner
Polar bear killed and skinned by Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is honoured in her work for Sobey Art Award
The animal skin is a screen for a video installation that “celebrates the bear’s spirit”, and touches on climate change, Indigenous rights and decolonisation
Rembrandt blockbuster draws 42,000 visitors to National Gallery of Canada
The response in Ottawa “shows people crave experiencing visual arts in person”, director Sasha Suda says
Rembrandt loan show will finally launch in Ottawa as National Gallery of Canada reopens to the public
Ontario museums have been shut for months because of surge in Covid cases this April
Rembrandt’s work joins with art by Black and Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Canada this spring
A major Old Master show will keep a contemporary perspective with new commissions and acquisitions
National Gallery of Canada adds community and HR leaders to management team
Angela Cassie and Tania Lafrenière join the institution as part of its first strategic plan
Four North American museums cancel exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections
National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime
National Gallery of Canada presents global pulse of contemporary Indigenous art
The museum plans to acquire many of the works in its survey devoted to Indigenous artists
Gauguin exhibitions in Ottawa and London will feature tributes to Van Gogh
Tahitian still lifes of sunflowers are surrogate portraits of his Yellow House friend
Alexandra Suda takes over as director of the National Gallery of Canada
The Ontario native is just the fourth woman to take the post, and the youngest in more than a century
For Gauguin, portraits reveal more about the artist than the model
A forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada aims to show how the painter explored his own identity through his subjects
National Gallery of Canada director Marc Mayer bids adieu to Ottawa
After ten years at the post, he has plenty of accomplishments, including bringing Indigenous art into the canon, and few regrets
Canada’s 1950s Venice Biennale pavilion gets a facelift
The upgrade to the Modernist building and its surrounding landscape has resulted in a new visitor route planned for the Giardini