The Canadian Council of Arts revealed the 2025 winners of the General Governor Awards on Wednesday (March 5). President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to be in the Annex Canada and “51. Statue”. Kent Monkman is creating an artist like Sandra Rodriquez since History. The awards celebrate the elderly of the national scene as well as the progress.
Monkman, one of the main prizes of the Governor COHORT, is a first nation, which divides two artists in Cree, its time between Toronto and New York. In 2023 he made an official of Canada, one of the highest honors in the country, Monkman’s work is playful and provocative, miming and deeply moves. If you often adjust the classical landscape of the 16th century classical landscape, entering Miss Miss Cief Eagle testickle, Monkman reconsider the colonial look, using humor and horror.
His 2020 painting Hanky PankyHe missed the Prime Minister of Justin Truthean Canada and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle went back. But his 2017 composition ScreamRoyal Canadian police ripen the indigenous arms of children, they have become international to the current residential schools The cry of the heart. Accompanied by the Monkman Award ad: “Canada has taken himself in the whole world, and the world does not see … Here it appears darker side of the colonial history.”
The idea of reverse the colonial gaze is also the work of Jin-me Yoon Vancouver based on the artistWho says “Look at” to see “Look”. Yoon’s “strict work continues to grow, such as nationalism, diasporal identity, colonization and indigenous relationships”, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vag) Director of the Strategy (Vag) said in a statement.
Sandra Rodriguez is creating multidisciplinary artistsHe who works on the edge of virtual reality and mixed reality technologies, what is real, what is false and what man makes us. Last projects video game engines, digital projection, artificial intelligence and live screening to probe issues of human sexuality spectra.
The work of Thaddeus HolowniaThe following brunswick reveals the Canadian landscape soul through meditative meditative meditative meditative. Than direct documentation, its images reflect the transformation around the landscape and over time.
“I like accuracy,” says Peter PieobonThe British designer of Columbia-based furniture was used to call the designer of honor. “I like things when they meet, and you can’t see how they are doing.” Organic, sculptural but sculptured pieces. Its salt is a rugged landscape of the west coast of the spring house.
Daina AugaitisFormer Associated Commissioner and director of the Vag, also awarded with the excellent contribution award. In 1983 he began a commissioner career in the western front, one of the oldest independent Canadian artists, before he went to Banff Center, became a director of the visual residents.
In a helpful video, Augaitis speaks of the importance of cleaning “Institutional Obstacles” and “Huge Value of Collaborator”. In Lag, when he began the Asian Art Institute (since the start of the Asian Art Institute, it emphasizes the importance of documenting local history, but to “locate internationally in context and expand interviews outside this place.”
Bruce Labruce Toronto-based filmmaker and writerAesthetics is known for pioneering, stinging and rumors, Toronto Dealer Bonny Poon, “continuously transcens and diverted for five decades.” What a movie is, what it is, what sexuality it is, what it is, “what it is.”
Kingston, Ontario based media artist Clive Robertson It has been a five-decade career that produces inter-disciplinary art magazine Downtown In 1976, it became later Fuse: Art, media and politics magazine (1980-2014). These seminal publications, denominators indicated, “Artistic production within its social context, converting a key information source and becoming critical discourse for people who are new and practical forms of media “.
