The Canada Council for the Arts has announced new prize winners for their contributions to photography and visual arts.
Pascal Grandmaison
Pascal Grandmaison will receive the Canada Council Photography Prize in recognition of his creative work in photography. He will receive $8,000. Born in Montréal in 1975, he has had work in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Toronto's Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art and others. His videos have been shown around the world, including at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Edinburgh Art Festival and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Nico Williams
Nico Williams has been presented with a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in visual arts, an award presented to emerging or mid-career artists who stand out for their artistic potential in their respective disciplines. He will receive a $5,000 prize. Based in Montreal, Williams has a multidisciplinary, collaborative practice focused on sculptural beadwork. In 2021, he was awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. A member of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, he has recently had works exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the PHI Foundation and the Hessel Museum of Art.
Franchesca Hebert-Spence
And Franchesca Hebert-Spence has been presented with the Joan Yvonne Lowndes Award. The $3,500 prize is given to an independent critic or curator in recognition of the quality of their writing on contemporary Canadian visual and media arts. Hebert-Spence lives in Inuvik and grew up in Winnipeg. According to the news release, she is “an independent curator serving as the curator of Indigenous ceramics at the Gardiner Museum and an advisor to the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada Indigenous Arts Collection.”
Source: Canada Council
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