In collaboration with the Sobey Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Canada is proud to present works by six artists from across the country who have been shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award.

Each of the shortlisted artists’ dynamic practices provide invaluable insights into matters of place, identity, community and belonging.

The installation by Taqralik Partridge (Inuk, Scottish) expresses the intergenerational importance of caribou to Inuit and other arctic Indigenous peoples through an amautik (child-carrying garment) and video. Judy Chartrand (Cree) employs mixed-media approaches to confront colonial narratives, racism and stereotypes. Through multi-layered storytelling, Métis filmmaker Rhayne Vermette creates poetic work centred on family, home, distance and identity. June Clark adopts a multidisciplinary practice to explore how personal and family histories, memory and identity intersect. Nico Williams (Anishinaabe) draws upon rich histories of intergenerational practices through his beadwork sculptures of everyday objects, often made collaboratively. Mathieu Léger navigates his Acadian heritage within a global context to examine how ancestry informs present experience through physical actions.

A special complimentary publication on the six finalists will be available to all on-site visitors.

(Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Sobey Art Foundation)