A celebration of the most promising young
lens-based artists
TORONTO and OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 14,
2020 /CNW/ - Today, Scotiabank and the National Gallery of
Canada announced the winners of
the third annual New Generation Photography Award, which recognizes
the best of young Canadians working in lens-based art and aims to
elevate their careers.
The winners for the 2020 edition are:
- Noah Friebel – Vancouver, BC
- Curtiss Randolph – Toronto,
ON
- Katherine Takpannie – Ottawa,
ON
"On behalf of Scotiabank, congratulations to Noah, Curtiss and
Katherine," said Mike Tasevski, Vice
President Sponsorship, Global Sponsorship at Scotiabank.
"Scotiabank has a long history and a deep passion for supporting
arts, culture and young people and is proud to play a role in
celebrating the creative vision and accomplishments of our
country's most promising new lens-based artists."
The three winners will receive a cash prize of $10,000 along with the opportunity to be featured
in two group exhibitions next year: one in Toronto during the Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival in May, and the other at the National
Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in October. Due to COVID-19, the 2020
and 2021 winners will present their works together at the group
exhibitions. The 2021 longlist of nominated artists will be
announced early next year, and the winners will be announced in
April 2021. Award recipients will be
mentored by the curatorial team at the National Gallery of
Canada, and their work will be
included in artist talks, exhibition tours, and educational
programming.
The New Generation Photography Award is the only one of its
kind, dedicated to Canadian artists 35 years of age and under, and
specific to lens-based art.
"The New Generation Photography Award provides a marvelous
opportunity to review the high quality of work generated by artists
across Canada," said National
Gallery of Canada Associate Curator of Photographs and jury member,
Andrea Kunard. "The prize celebrates
artistic vision and provides encouragement and support in a
critical time of an artist's career. As occurred in the previous
two years, the 2020 winners reveal the many approaches artists take
to the medium, a testament to photography's broad expressive
capacity. Viewers are presented with documentary modes, conceptual
strategies, personal journeys, and matters of social urgency."
The winners were selected from a longlist by the following
Members of the 2020 New Generation Photography Award jury:
- Ann Thomas, Senior Curator,
Photographs, National Gallery of Canada, and Chair of the
Jury
- Luther Konadu, Artist and past
New Generation Photography Award winner (2019)
- Andrea Kunard, Associate
Curator, Photographs, National Gallery of Canada
- Suzy Lake, Artist and past
Scotiabank Photography Award winner (2016)
- Alain Paiement, Artist and
Professor at Université de Québec à Montréal
2020 New Generation Photography Award Recipient Bios:
Noah Friebel
Vancouver based Noah Friebel focuses on the fabricated aspect of
the photograph, using elements of sculpture and installation to
examine our relationship to images, each other, and the narrowing
space in between. Since graduating from Emily Carr University with
a BFA in 2018, Friebel has been part of several group shows:
notably Green Glass Door at Trapp Projects and The Lind Prize 2018
at Polygon Gallery. He had a solo show at Republic Gallery in
April 2020.
Curtiss Randolph
Toronto born Curtiss Randolph constructs
scenes as either tableau or staged documentary narratives. Having
grown up in a theatre family, the elements of stage production
crept into his working process at an early stage. Mixing realism,
surrealism, and gonzo journalism, Randolph challenges viewers'
preconceived notion of documentary style as a way to question ideas
of fact and fiction in the photographic medium.
Semi-autobiographical storytelling has taken the lead role in
Curtiss' work. Artist's such as Moya
Garrison, Stan Douglas,
Park Chan-wook, and Jim Jarmusch all offer inspiration for Curtiss'
creative process.
Katherine Takpannie
Katherine Takpannie is
an Ottawa based Inuk
artist, writer and graduate of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS)
program. Her photographs set performative and political gestures
against both natural and built environments, including intimate
portraits of women. Her work is held in the City of Ottawa's art collection and has
appeared in Getting Under Our
Skin exhibition at the Art Gallery of Guelph and They Forgot We Were Seeds
exhibition at the Carleton
University Art Gallery.
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About the National Gallery of Canada
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Gallery of Canada is home to the
most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian
art. The Gallery also maintains Canada's premier collection of European Art
from the 14th to the 21st centuries, as well as important works of
American, Asian and Indigenous Art and renowned international
collections of prints, drawings and photographs. Created in 1880,
the National Gallery of Canada has
played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century.
Among its principal missions is to increase access to art for all
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