Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award exhibition
Séamus Gallagher, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Clara Lacasse
OTTAWA, Wednesday, April 19, 2023—Scotiabank and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced today that lens-based visual artists Hannah Doucet and Wynne Neilly from Toronto, and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, from Vancouver, are the winners of the 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award (NGPA).
Each of the winners will receive $10,000 in prize money and will have a selection of their works displayed at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto, as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival’s 27th Edition, which opens April 28 in Toronto, as well as in a special exhibition at the NGC in the fall of 2023. The latter is supported by the Scotiabank Photography Program at the Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator, Photographs, at the National Gallery of Canada and Chair of the Scotiabank NGPA jury, is curating both exhibitions. The three artists will also be mentored by the NGC curatorial team.
“The 2023 winners of the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award explore the many challenges in contemporary representations of the body, identity, culture, and history. Photographs and videos explore and push against boundaries of the cultural and natural to new possibilities of existence and relationships. As much as their images operate as critical statements on contemporary life, they also function to open dialogue and create community. With great visual sophistication, care, and curiosity, the Scotiabank NGPA winners demonstrate the continued power and significance of lens-based images to both probe shared concerns and anxieties and offer new insights into negotiating an image saturated culture,” said Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator, Photographs, at the NGC and Chair of the NGPA jury.
“We join our partners and jury members in celebrating the three winners of the Scotiabank NGPA Award 2023! Through their respective practices, these talented artists share their valuable perspectives on our world. This aligns with the Gallery’s mission to create dynamic visual art experiences that enable new ways of seeing ourselves, others and our different stories. We look forward to presenting their photographic works of art this fall to the many communities the Gallery exists to serve,” said Angela Cassie, Interim Director and CEO, National Gallery of Canada.
“The National Gallery of Canada Foundation salutes the three winners of the 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award and extends warm thanks to our dedicated partner Scotiabank for their ongoing championship of Canada’s emerging lens-based artists. The work of these three artists is exemplary of art as a conduit for meaningful dialogue, and we are delighted these works will be presented to visitors at the National Gallery of Canada,” said Lisa Turcotte, Chief Executive Officer, National Gallery of Canada Foundation.
“Congratulations to 2023 winners, Hannah, Wynne, and Gonzalo. Scotiabank has a deep passion for supporting the arts across Canada and that includes helping young artists grow through unique opportunities like the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award. We are proud to partner with the National Gallery of Canada and look forward to the winner’s exhibit in Ottawa this fall,” said Laura Curtis Ferrera, Chief Marketing Officer, Scotiabank.
The jury was composed of Deanna Bowen, artist and past winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award (2021), Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, artist and past winner of the New Generation Photography Award (2022), and curator Bernard Lamarche (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) selected the winners from a longlist that also included the following eight lens-based artists:
- Alex Antle, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Georgia Dawkin, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Annie France Noël, New Brunswick
- Tanea Hynes, Québec
- Jackson Klie, Ontario
- Lucy Lu, Ontario
- Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Manitoba
- Gabriel Esteban Molina, Alberta
Launched in 2017 by the NGC in partnership with Scotiabank, the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award supports the careers of talented Canadian artists aged 35 and under working behind the camera, by recognizing outstanding photographic images.