Gabrielle L鈥橦irondelle Hill, Christine Howard Sandoval Named to 2023 Sobey Award Longlist
Artist and 麻豆视频 faculty members Christine Howard Sandoval (left) and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill have been named to the 2023 Sobey Award Longlist. (Images courtesy the artists / National Gallery of Canada).
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The artists and 麻豆视频 faculty members are among 25 artists nominated from across Canada for consideration in the 2023 juried grand prize under the prestigious Sobey banner.
Artists and 麻豆视频 faculty members and are among the artists for this year鈥檚 prestigious .
The award is presented annually to a visual artist who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. Twenty-five artists are chosen annually for the longlist, with five artists representing each of five regions across the country. Gabrielle and Christine are both included in the West Coast and Yukon region.
Five longlisted artists will be selected by jury for inclusion in the Sobey shortlist, to be announced in June. Each shortlisted artist is awarded $25,000. They will also have their work included in an exhibition at the in the fall. Each of the remaining 20 long-listed artists will receive $10,000.
The overall winner of the award will be announced in November and awarded a grand prize of $100,000.
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, 'Counterblaste' (installation view), 2021. Pantyhose, tobacco, beer can tabs, plastic flowers, dried flowers, earring beaded by Cheryl L'Hirondelle Hill, thread, charms, running shoes, rabbit-fur earrings, nail polish, variable. (Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia)
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, 'Last Hot Days,' 2022. Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, dried flowers, blackberries, on paper. (Photo courtesy the artist; Unit 17, Vancouver; and Cooper Cole, Toronto)
Christine Howard Sandoval, 'Niniwas 鈥 to belong here' (installation view), 2022. Single-channel video (sound design in collaboration with Luz Fleming), 12 minutes. (Image courtesy of Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles)
Christine Howard Sandoval, 'Document Mounds 鈥 Application for Enrollment with the Indians of the State of California Under The Act of May 28, 1928,' (6 pages) (detail), 2021. Inkjet print on vinyl, tape, adobe mud and steel. (Image courtesy of Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles)
鈥淕abrielle L鈥橦irondelle Hill is a M茅tis artist and writer who lives on the unceded territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples,鈥 reads . 鈥淗er sculptural practice explores the history of found materials, enquiring into concepts of land, property and economy.
鈥淩ecent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the 59th Venice Biennale, Le Magasin 鈥 CNAC in Grenoble, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Gallery TPW in Toronto. Hill is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that seeks to challenge Eurocentric art models, and centre the land and Indigenous epistemologies.鈥
鈥淐hristine Howard Sandoval is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the boundaries of representation, access and habitation, where what is held in the land, and what is held within state-sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning,鈥 reads. 鈥淗er work has recently been exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of S茫o Paulo in Brazil, ICA San Diego, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.
鈥淗oward Sandoval currently lives on the unceded territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation.鈥
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