Toronto Artist Shary Boyle Wins the 2009 Iskowitz Prize at the AGO
Shary Boyle, The Rejection of Pluto, 2008. TORONTO.- Shary Boyle, one of the decade’s most buzzed-about Canadian artists, is the winner of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO for her outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada. The $25,000 Prize will be awarded to Boyle at a reception on December 1, 2009 and includes an exhibition of her work at the AGO in 2010.
Boyle, who moves fluidly between drawing, painting, sculpture and performance, first rose to prominence in the late 1990s .Her work has been exhibited internationally and documented in a number of publications, including Otherworldly Uprising. Her fantastical and disturbing porcelain figurines, often incorporating mythological stories and fables, have been among the most acclaimed Canadian works of the twenty-first century.
This is a big year for the Iskowitz Prize, established in 1985 by painter Gershon Iskowitz to raise the profile of visual arts in Canada. The Gershon Iskowitz Prize: 1986 – 2006, a commemorative volume celebrating the first twenty years of the Iskowitz Prize, will be released on December 1.
Additionally, two past winners of the Iskowitz Prize at the AGO are presenting exhibitions at the Gallery. The aptly titled Three Films by Mark Lewis, who won the Prize in 2007, is currently on display in the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art as an element of the Beautiful Fictions exhibition. An as-yet-untitled exhibition by Françoise Sullivan, recipient of the 2008 Prize, will open at the AGO in February 2010.
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