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The 2015 Sobey Art Award: The New Masters

It is in today's art, we often see the future. Twelve years ago, the Sobey Art Award was created in Canada to celebrate our best artists under the age of 40. In 2014, $100,000 was given away in total - of which $50,000 went to the winner.
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Sobey Art Award Ceremony

9 years ago
Duration 11:55
Sobey Art Award Ceremony

It is in today's art, we often see the future.

The Sobey Art Award, created in 2002, is Canada's pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art. It is a celebration of the next big thing in the art world. The annual prize is given to an artist under age 40, who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. In addition to the $50,000 prize awarded to the winner of the Sobey Art Award, each of the four short-listed artists are awarded $10,000 and $500 is awarded to each of the remaining twenty long-listed artists.


Abbas Akhavan, “Study for a Hanging Garden” (detail), Cast bronze on white cotton sheets (2013).

Paul Kennedy talks to the five regional finalists. From the West Coast: Raymond Boisjoly. Prairies and the North: Sarah Anne Johnson. Ontario: Abbas Akhavan. Quebec: Jon Rafman. The Atlantic: Lisa Lipton. The programs are produced in partnership with The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.  The 2-part series will air on Friday, December 11 and Friday, December 18.


The winner of the 2015 Sobey Art Award is Ontario artist Abbas Akhavan.