The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for a young Canadian artist. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. Sobey, who established The Sobey Art Foundation. The winner of the award receives $50,000 and the runner-up $15,000. The award was presented biennially until 2006 at which point it became an annual award. Frank H. Sobey O.C. (1902 – December 15, 1985) was a Canadian businessman who was the primary builder of the Sobeys Stores chain. ...

Past finalists

2002

• Winner - Brian Jungen (West Coast)
• Colleen Wolstenholme (Atlantic)
• Runner-up - David Hoffos (Prairies and the North)
• Jean-Pierre Gauthier (Quebec)
• Marla Hlady (Ontario)

Prototype for New Understanding #8, 1999 Nike athletic footwear, human hair Shapeshifter, 2002 Plastic chairs Isolated Depiction of the Passage of Time, 2001 Plastic trays Variant I, 2001 Nike athletic footwear // Biography Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations roots; he...

2004

• Winner - Jean-Pierre Gauthier (Quebec)
• Althea Thauberger (West Coast),
• Marcel Dzama (Prairies and the North),
• Germaine Koh (Ontario),
• Greg Forrest (Atlantic).

Marcel Dzama (born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is an artist best known for his pen and ink drawings, which use large amounts of white space and bizarre, ambiguous, and frequently unconnected subject matter. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

2006

• Winner - Annie Pootoogook (Prairies and the North)
• Steven Shearer (West Coast)
• Janice Kerbel (Ontario)
• BGL (Québec), artist collective of Jasmin Bilodeau (born 1973), Sébastien Giguère (born 1972), and Nicolas Laverdière (born 1972).
• Mathew Reichertz (Atlantic)

Annie Pootoogook (born 1969 in Cape Dorset, then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut, Canada) is a Canadian contemporary artist. ...

2007

Semi-finalists announced May 14th, 2007

• Atlantic: Jean-Denis Boudreau, Alexandra Flood, Vanessa Paschakarnis, Mathew Reichertz, Mitchell Wiebe (Curator: Robin Metcalfe)
• Québec: David Altmejd, Michel De Broin, Raphaelle de Groot, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Yannick Pouliot (Curator: Bernard Lamarche)
• Ontario: Michael Belmore, Shary Boyle, Frank Shebageget, Andrew Wright, Kevin Yates (Curator: Melanie Townsend)
• Prairies and the North: Robin Arseneault, Daniel Barrow, Sarah Anne Johnson, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Graeme Patterson (Curator: Dan Ring)
• West Coast: Scott McFarland, Luanne Martineau, Damian Moppett, Steven Shearer, Ron Terada (Curator: Helga Pakasaar)

External links

• The Sobey Art Award

References

• Annie Pootoogook Winner of 2006 Sobey Art Award, Presented by Scotiabank