News Roundup: Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize Results Announced

The prize offers BC artists early-career recognition. Also: a lawyer advocates for a national Black arts policy, two prominent dealers partner up and the AGO collaborates with the Biennale of Sydney

Lacie Burning, <em>Blockade Rider</em> (detail), 2019. Burning is a runner-up for the 2020 Lind Prize.

Lacie Burning, Blockade Rider (detail), 2019. Burning is a runner-up for the 2020 Lind Prize.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is co-presenting “aabaakwad 2020 NIRIN,” an international four-day gathering of Indigenous artists, curators and thinkers that will launch the 2020 Biennale of Sydney. AGO curator and 2018 “aabaakwad” founder Wanda Nanibush (Anishinaabe) is collaborating with Biennale of Sydney artistic director Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri) in organizing the event, which will feature Indigenous artists, curators and thinkers travelling from more than 24 First Nations and 13 countries for the event, taking place March 14 to 17. (Art Gallery of Ontario)

Laura Gildner, <em>Informer</em> (detail), 2019. Gildner is the winner for the 2020 Lind Prize.

Laura Gildner, Informer (detail), 2019. Gildner is the winner for the 2020 Lind Prize.

Rydel Cerezo, <em>Am I a Sea</em> (detail), 2019. Cerezo is a runner-up for the 2020 Lind Prize.

Rydel Cerezo, Am I a Sea (detail), 2019. Cerezo is a runner-up for the 2020 Lind Prize.

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is getting closer to a major expansion. Victoria city council voted in favour of a development permit for the project earlier this month, which includes “more exhibition gallery space, classrooms, a café, a gift shop, archival storage and offices, and a multipurpose room and meeting spaces,” CBC reports. “The cost of the project is estimated at around $30 million” and is waiting on federal funding. (CBC British Columbia)

Feheley Fine Arts of Toronto and TrépanierBaer of Calgary are partnering. The two galleries’ inaugural collaborative exhibition will be “Discovering Oscar Cahén (1916–1956)” running April 2 to May 10 at Centre Space in Toronto, located at 65 George Street. (TrépanierBaer)

Residency winners have been announced for the Fogo Island Arts-Sobey Art Award Residency and the Hnatyshyn Foundation-Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency. Kablusiak, the 2020 recipient of the Fogo Island Arts-Sobey Art Award Residency, is an Inuvialuk artist and curator based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). Marie-Ève Lafontaine, winner of the 2020 Hnatyshyn Foundation-Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency, is a Canadian curator and writer based in New York. (Fogo Island Arts)

Staffing changes are coming at NSCAD University and the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. Martine Durier-Copp is the new academic dean at NSCAD University; she formerly held a post at Dalhousie University. Matthew Kyba is the new curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington; he was most recently director of Forest City Gallery. (NSCAD, VAC)