Our editors’ weekly roundup of Canadian art news.
Toronto-based artist Jon Sasaki has been awarded the 2015 Canadian Glenfiddich Artists-in-Residence Prize. One of eight international artists selected for the residency, Sasaki will live and work in Dufftown, Scotland, where the Glenfiddich distillery is located, for three months between April and October 2015.
Pip Day, curator of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal, has been appointed to the curatorial team for SITElines.2016, the second instalment of SITE Santa Fe’s biennial exhibition series, which takes a broad look at art of the Americas. Sarah Milroy covered the 2014 iteration, “Unsettled Landscapes,” which was co-curated by Canadian Candice Hopkins, in the Winter 2015 issue of Canadian Art.
Yesterday, Alice Ming Wai Jim, associate professor and graduate program director in art history at Concordia University, was announced as the second recipient of the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art. Alice Ming Wai Jim, whose research focuses on contemporary-Asian art and Asian-Canadian art, will lead a researchers’ conference supported by Artexte in 2015.
On Wednesday, Rafael Goldchain, Angela Grauerholz and Isabelle Hayeur were shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada’s top prize for contemporary photography.
Arts writer and programmer Leila Timmins joined Gallery 44 in Toronto as the head of exhibitions and publications. She comes to the position from Workman Arts, where she served as the visual-arts manager, and she currently sits on the AGO Education Committee, C Magazine’s board and the Artscape Youngplace Curatorial Advisory.
On Wednesday, the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto announced a major acquisition of pioneering American artist Berenice Abbott’s archive—a treasure trove of over 13,000 photographs, negatives and pieces of documentation. An anonymous group of patrons donated the archive.
