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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
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
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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
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Shortlist announced for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest art prize
Although nominations were open to artists of all ages for the first time, the finalists are all around the same generation