BMO Financial Group announces one national winner and 12 regional winners for its 19th annual BMO 1st Art! competition$15,000 awarded to the national winner;$7,500 awarded to each regional winner- All selected works to be showcased in free virtual exhibition hosted by
The Art Museum at theUniversity of Toronto from November 16 to December 8 at artmuseum.utoronto.ca
This year marks the first time in competition history that a time-based media project has won the national prize. NSCAD graduate
The annual competition invites deans and instructors from 110 undergraduate art programs across
Following the success of the competition's first-ever virtual exhibition last year, BMO 1st Art! will once again host its annual gallery exhibition through the
"BMO's commitment to Boldly Grow the Good in business and life includes long-standing support for community arts, culture and programs like the 1st Art! competition," said
"With schools and art studios being shut down for the past year, this year's winners had to overcome unprecedented circumstances to excel at their craft," said
Full list of 2021 BMO 1st Art! winners:
National Winner
Anna Kuelken , "Father Like Son",NSCAD University (Nova Scotia )
Regional Winners
Kev Liang , "Jiā yóu",University of Alberta (Alberta)Shannon Pahladsingh , "oh, thank goodness",University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia )Tayler Buss , "Rearview",University of Manitoba (Manitoba )Alana Morouney , "I'll get you next time/I keep letting you win so that I can hold your hand",Mount Allison University (New Brunswick )Bethany MacKenzie , "What Will the Worms Think of Me?", Grenfell Campus,Memorial University of Newfoundland (Newfoundland andLabrador )- Max TS. Yang, "A Family of III",
NSCAD University (Nova Scotia ) Erin Faulks , "The Pandemicock",Nunavut Arctic College (Nunavut )Allysha Jacque , "kâvunga",York University (Ontario )- Price, "Egg and Chain",
Holland College (Prince Edward Island ) Maggy Hamel-Metsos , "No Place to Stand",Concordia University (Quebec )Holly Aubichon , "Modern Medicine",University of Regina (Saskatchewan )Juliet Di Carlo , "Consume in a way that makes it look Authentic",Yukon School of Visual Arts (Yukon )
Other highlighted works include:
- "oh, thank goodness is a spoken word poem addressing institutional covert racism and the artist's lived experiences of exploitation, objectification and minimization as a queer, nonbinary person of colour in a white workplace. Placing a seemingly innocent sentence in this context, she asks if such microaggressions can be labelled as "micro" when the experience for Indigenous, Black, and people of colour is macro." (
Shannon Pahladsingh ,British Columbia winner) - "Modern Medicine is an oil painting created as a means for healing and to document and preserve the artist's paternal Métis and Cree lineage, which was buried as a result of aggressive assimilation and its aftermaths. The piece includes subtle shifts in perspective and is dimly lit to suggest memory recall, emotional stress, spiritual presence, ceremony, tenderness, and the weight of intergenerational trauma." (
Holly Aubichon ,Saskatchewan winner) - "Through photo, video, print, and mixed media, Jiā yόu explores the generational, cultural and philosophical Chinese expectation of continuing blood lineages and gaining prosperity, juxtaposed with the artist's queer and diasporic identity." (
Kev Liang ,Alberta Winner )
The 2021 Selection Committee:
Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre , Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d'art deJoliette Melanie Colosimo , Director/Curator, Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems,NSCAD University Francisco-Fernando Granados , Artist and Educator
To view images of the winning works on
To access the virtual exhibition beginning
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