Images clockwise from left: Howard Gurevich, newly appointed manager of Actual Gallery; curator Sarah Robayo Sheridan at the launch of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Photo: Jessie Lau.
Our editors’ weekly roundup of Canadian art news.
The Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg was awarded $80,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation to support the gallery’s artistic programming throughout the next two years. Although the Andy Warhol Foundation is an American institution, it occasionally supports international projects, and the foundation’s program director, Rachel Bers, noted that the award “acknowledges the important role Plug In continues to play as a platform for contemporary art discourse in Canada and abroad.”
On Thursday, Winnipeg’s Actual Gallery announced that Howard Gurevich, owner of Gurevich Fine Art, would take over managing the gallery. Gurevich will continue to operate Gurevich Fine Art, located in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, while assuming his new role, which is effective immediately.
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the University of Toronto Art Centre will now be gathered under the banner of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. The identities of the two galleries will “be sustained within the larger institution,” notes a press release. The merger makes the Art Museum at the University of Toronto “one of the largest university-based museums in the country, and the second-largest, museum-standard visual-art museum and collection in the city of Toronto.”
The Power Plant in Toronto announced their new curatorial hires earlier this week: Carolin Köchling will assume the position of curator of exhibitions, while Joshua Heuman becomes the gallery’s curator of education and public programs. Köchling has previously worked in a curatorial capacity at the Schirn Kunsthalle and the Städel Museum.
Ontario-based artist Kayla King has been awarded the People’s Choice Prize at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, a subsidiary award of the Kingston Prize Association. Work by this year’s finalists for the Kingston Prize, a $20,000 Canada-wide portrait-painting competition was on view at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. Jen Mann of Mississauga took the top award at the Kingston Prize in November 2015.
