Created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation, the Sobey Art Award is the country’s pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art. It is given every year to an artist under forty who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within the eighteen months prior to being nominated. Selected from around a hundred candidates nominated by a curatorial panel, the winner is awarded $50,000, and the other four finalists receive $5,000 each, for a total of $70,000 in prize money presented annually at a gala event.

Runa Islam
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Through her works, Islam pursues an investigation of the history of experimental film, doing away with narrative structures and representations in favour of visual explorations. The Montréal presentation focuses on the artist’s fascination with cinema as a device. It consists of five 16-mm film installations produced over the last six years, including a 2010 work commissioned by the two presenting museums.

David K. Ross  Attaché
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
In this new series of photographs titled Attaché, Québec artist David K. Ross continues his examination of the world behind the scenes of art and museology. Previously, with Dark Rooms, Ross explored the places where works, crates and materials are stored.

Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 21 – September 6, 2010
Why are so many contemporary artists revisiting the forms, ideas and aspirations of early Modernism? That highly topical question is the crux of the exhibition Yesterday’s Tomorrows that brings together works by ten Québec, Canadian and international artists who re-examine this pivotal period in the twentieth century.

Paul-Émile Borduas: “Les frontières de nos rêves ne sont plus les mêmes”
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
April 24 – October 3, 2010
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Paul-Émile Borduas, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal has organized an exhibition in tribute to this great artist, a pillar of modernity in Québec and principal author of the group manifesto Refus global. From April 24 to October 3, 2010, the Musée presents Borduas: “Les frontières de nos rêves ne sont plus les mêmes,” with the participation of artists François Lacasse, Guy Pellerin, Roland Poulin and Irene F. Whittome.