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MC Keith Cole at 2023 GOG Awards. Photo courtesy of GOG.

The 2024 GOG Awards Shortlist

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) is pleased to announce the Shortlisted Nominees for the 47th Annual, 2024 GOG Awards. As the only annual juried awards of its kind, the iconic GOG Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement, artistic merit, and excellence of arts institutions and professionals in the public art gallery sector.

Join us on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 6:30 pm at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West for the awards ceremony and the launch of GOG’s online silent auction fundraiser. Award winners will be announced during the ceremony. Watch our website and social media for the latest and most up-to-date information.

All shortlisted nominations are presented in alphabetical order and listed by title, curator, organization. All winners will be announced live during the ceremony.

EXHIBITION AWARDS

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $50,000

Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World
Jennifer Matotek, Laura Ritchie, Curators
Art Windsor-Essex

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch
Melissa Bennett, Greg Hill, David W. Penney, Curators
Art Gallery of Hamilton

The Uses of Enchantment: Art & Environmentalism
Sarah Milroy, Curator
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $20,000 Thematic

Nii Ndahlohke / I Work
Julie Rae Tucker, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Curators
Art Windsor-Essex

World-builders, shapeshifters
Erin Szikora, Curator
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $20,000 Monographic

Caroline Monnet: Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute
Mona Filip, Curator
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Elif Saydam: Eviction Notice
Theresa Wang, Curator
Oakville Galleries

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko: Lover’s Wind
Aamna Muzaffar, Curator
Mercer Union

Exhibition Under $20,000 Monographic

Hellen Pelletier: Wiigwas Manidoog Descendants
Penelope Smart, Curator
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Sila / Siya / Ako – Julius Poncelet Manapul
Marissa Largo, Curator
A Space Gallery

Tina Rouhandeh: Inquiry About Forgotten Birds
Muriel N. Kahwagi, Curator
Art Windsor-Essex

Exhibition of the Year Budget under $10,000

Continuous Memory: Max Lupo & José Andrés Mora
Tyler Durbano, Curator
Latcham Art Centre

José Luis Torres: Dérives
Alix Voz, Curator
Cambridge Art Galleries

Raechel Wastesicoot: Kenatentas
Erin Szikora, Curator
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Innovation in a Collection-Based Exhibition

Elizabeth Zvonar: Cracks in the Clockwork
Emily McKibbon, Curator
Art Windsor-Essex

Patterns for All Bodies
Alicia Boutilier, Curator
Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Woodland Boogie Woogie 6
Anik Glaude, Curator
Varley Art Gallery of Markham in partnership with Markham Public Art

Exhibition Design and Installation

Caroline Monnet: Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute
Mona Flip, Curator
Mona Flip, Caroline Monnet, Exhibition Designers
Daniel Griffin Hunt, Micah Donovan, Exhibition Coordinators
Simon Fuh, Jordan May, Robert Anthony O’Halloran, Jordan Prosser, Miles Rufelds, Craig Spence, Phillip Woollam, Nicholas Zirk, Installation Team
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko: Lover’s Wind
Aamna Muzaffar, Curator, Exhibition Designer, & Exhibition Coordinator
Uroš Jelic, Philip Luedemann, Grayson Richards, Vanessa Rieger, Installation team
Mercer Union

Sila/Siya/Ako
Marissa Largo, Curator
Julius Poncelet Manapul, Exhibition Designer and Artist
Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Exhibition Coordinator
Allan Kosmajac, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Marissa Largo, Installation Team
A Space Gallery

2023 GOG Award Winners. Photo courtesy of GOG.

WRITING AWARDS

Major Curatorial Writing

Agnes Etherington Art Centre – “Forays in the Underburden,” Sunny Kerr

Art Gallery of Hamilton – “It Starts with a Whisper,” Melissa Bennett

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts – Richard Tombs, “Photography, Film, and Electricity.”

Curatorial Writing

Art Gallery of Hamilton – Greg Hill, “Shelley Niro Matters”

Art Gallery of Sudbury – Bénédicte Ramade, “Faire alliance | Forming Alliances”

McMichael – Bonnie Devine, “On Looking and Reading”

Short Curatorial Writing

Agnes Etherington – Qanita Lilla, “Tracing Kingston’s Solidarities”

Art Gallery of Sudbury – Shannon Anderson, “Sara Angelucci: Undergrowth | Broussailles”

Onsite Gallery – Analays Álvarez Hernández, “On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging”

Art Writing

Agnes Etherington Art Centre – Emelie Chhangur & Anne Riley, “A Conversation Around Dark Matter Ethics”

Art Gallery of Sudbury – Kim Fahner, “It Begins and Ends With Birds: A Journey into Sara Angelucci’s Undergrowth”

Art Publication

Agnes Etherington Art Centre – Eleven metal tongues

Art Gallery of Hamilton – Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch

McMichael – Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael

DESIGN AWARDS

Catalogue Design

Carleton University Art Gallery – Benny Nemer: I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is

Varley Art Gallery of Markham – Gathering Fictions: A Dialogue on Painting

PROGRAM & EDUCATION AWARDS

Public Program Award

Anikoobijiganag: Thunder Bay Beading Symposium
Thunder Bay Art Gallery in partnership with Anemki Art Collective, Public Programmers / Curators
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Resonance
Ellen Waterman, Sandra Dyck, Public Programmers / Curators
Carleton University Art Gallery

Tracing Kingston Solidarities
Qanita Lilla, Public Programmer / Curator
Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Education Award

Agnes Learns
Charlotte Gagnier, Jessica Endress, Sarah Cook, Agnes Student Docents, Educators
Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Dream Sandwiches
Nancy Deleary, Julie Rae Tucker, Sophie Hinch, Meaghan Sweeney, Educators
Art Windsor-Essex

Visiting with Morrisseau
Danielle Printup, Carmen Robertson, Educators
Carleton University Art Gallery

PERSONNEL AWARDS

Key Partnership

Art Windsor-Essex – Elizabeth O’Neil Meurehg, Chair & CEO of the O’Neil Foundation, AWE Strategic Planning and Rebranding

Museum London – Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness, UPwithART

Onsite, OCAD U – Inuit Art Foundation, Up Front: Inuit Public Art @ Onsite Gallery

The remaining Awards do not have a shortlist, winners will be announced live during the ceremony:

EXHIBITION AWARDS
First Exhibition in a Public Gallery

PERSONNEL AWARDS
Colleague of the Year
Volunteer Award
Changemaker BIPOC Award
Lifetime Achievement

DESIGN AWARDS
Art Book Design Award
Digital Project Design Award
Other Publication Design Award

Thank you to our jurors who diligently peer-assessed the nominations!

Jurors: Christian Bernard Singer, Nina Boccia, Alexis Boyle, Demetra Christakos, Tanya Harnett, Nasrin Himada, Shauna McCabe, Margaux Parker, Alana Traficante, Kamila Westerback, Lauren Wickware, and Annie Wong.

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) has a 50 year history as an arts service organization (ASO) which represents over 260 members—public art galleries, museums, artist-run-centres, and arts organizations. Over 40 years, its annual award program has been defining the standards of excellence for the visual arts in Canada. Through advocacy on issues, policy, legislation to all levels of government, and delivery of innovative and cutting-edge professional development opportunities and network-building, GOG advances, empowers, and strengthens the visual arts sector in Canada.

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