Title: The Kingston Prize | Le Prix Kingston: Canada's Portrait Competition | Le prix du portrait du Canada
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1773104519
ISBN 13: 9781773104515
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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The Kingston Prize: Canada’s Portrait Competition presents over 250 extraordinary contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, celebrating the finalists and winners of the first nine editions of one of the country’s leading portrait competitions.

Founded in 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, the Kingston Prize is a biennial event that has received 3,500 submissions since its inception. The finalists and winning portraits have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors to the related exhibitions, held across Canada in Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Alberta.

Generously illustrated with full-colour reproductions of work by every finalist and winner since the inception of the prize, The Kingston Prize: Canada’s Portrait Competition offers a visual record of life in Canada and an inspiring range of approaches to portraiture by contemporary artists.

Le Prix Kingston : Prix du portrait au Canada pr�sente plus de 250 portraits contemporains ordinaires, œuvres d’artistes canadiens, finalistes ou laur�ats des neuf premi�res �ditions du plus prestigieux concours de ce genre du pays.

Fond� en 2005 � Kingston, en Ontario, le Prix Kingston est un �v�nement biennal qui a attir� quelque 3 500 candidatures depuis sa cr�ation. Les œuvres des finalistes et des laur�ats, expos�es en Ontario, en Nouvelle-�cosse, au Nouveau-Brunswick, au Qu�bec et en Alberta, ont �t� vues par des centaines de milliers de visiteurs.

G�n�reusement illustr� gr�ce � des reproductions couleur des œuvres de chaque finaliste et laur�at depuis la cr�ation du prix, Le Prix Kingston : Prix du portrait au Canada est un t�moignage visuel du travail, des loisirs, des v�tements et de la coiffure, bref, de la vie au Canada, mais aussi un panorama du style des portraitistes contemporains.

About the Authors

Jason Donville co-chairs the Kingston Prize with Gayle Barr. He was raised in Western Canada and grew up in a family of musicians and painters. Donville is the president and CEO of a Toronto-based investment firm and a collector of Canadian figurative art.

Jason Donville est copr�sident, avec Gayle Barr, du Prix Kingston. Il a grandi au sein d’une famille de musiciens et de peintres dans l’Ouest canadien. Il est actuellement pr�sident-directeur g�n�ral d’une firme d’investissement �tablie � Toronto. Il est en outre collectionneur d’art figuratif canadien.

Tatum Dooley is a writer and the founder of Art Forecast. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Architectural Digest, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, Garage Magazine, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Lapham’s Quarterly and Vogue. She has written exhibition texts for artists worldwide. Tatum currently sits on the Curatorial Committee of SNAP, a photography auction in support of AIDS Committee of Toronto. Previously, she was Co-Chair of Salon 44, Gallery 44’s annual fundraiser.

Tatum Dooley est autrice et fondatrice de l’infolettre intitul�e Art Forecast. Elle a publi� dans Artforum, Architectural Digest, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, Garage Magazine, le Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Lapham’s Quarterly et Vogue. Elle a �crit des textes pour des expositions d’artistes de partout au monde. Tatum si�ge actuellement au comit� des conservateurs de SNAP, un organisme de vente aux ench�res d’œuvres photographiques au profit d’un comit� de lutte contre le SIDA � Toronto. Elle a �t� �galement copr�sidente du Salon 44, campagne de financement annuelle de Gallery 44.

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