The deadline for nominations is APR 1
The Sobey Art Award is officially accepting nominations for this year’s prize. The $50,000 award is Canada’s premier visual art award given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
The five finalists of the 2011 Award will be announced in June, 2011. Selected work from the shortlisted artists will be featured in Halifax in an exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia from September 17th, 2011 and run until January 8th, 2012. The winner of the 2011 Sobey Art Award will be announced during a gala event at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in October 2011.
The 2011 curatorial advisory panel is made up of five distinguished representatives from a Canadian art gallery in each of the five regions: the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and the North, and the West Coast and Yukon.
For more information and nominations guidelines please visit www.sobeyartaward.ca
