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47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

The 48th Annual GOG Awards: Changemaker BIPOC, Colleague Of The Year, and Volunteer Of The Year Award Winners Revealed & Awards Shortlist Announced

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) is pleased to announce the Personnel Award Winners for Changemaker BIPOC, Colleague Of The Year, and Volunteer Of The Year Awards of the 48th Annual GOG Awards. Alongside these winners, GOG presents this year’s Awards shortlist.

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. This year’s theme, Make Your Mark – Laissez Votre Marque, focuses on defending Canadian cultural sovereignty, and supporting the arts as a public good. This theme calls for collective imagination and urgent action: to protect and nurture the expressions that make us feel alive, connected, and human. In a time of heightened social, environmental, economical and political volatility, GOG is leading the dialogue on protecting and standing up for Canadian culture—that it is not a commodity, vulnerable to political pressures, but is essential to our sovereignty.

We extend our sincere gratitude to our jurors for their dedication, insight, and diligent work in peer-assessing the nominations!

Julie Bevan, Alexis Boyle, Demetra Christakos, Tatum Dooley, Nicola Hamilton, Luis Jacob, Fynn Leitch, Shauna McCabe, John Montgomery, Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Margaux Parker, Yuluo Wei

Be sure to join us in celebrating excellence at the Toronto Reference Library on December 1, 2025 for the Awards ceremony! Keep an eye on the GOG Awards website and GOG social media channels for the latest and most up-to-date information.

47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

The 48th Annual GOG Awards Winners

We’re proud to reveal the recipients of the Changemaker BIPOC Award, Colleague of the Year Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award. The 48th Annual GOG Award Shortlist follows.

PERSONNEL AWARDS

Changemaker BIPOC

Yan Wu
Public Art Curator
Varley Art Gallery of Markham

Colleague Of The Year

Emma Campbell
Executive Liaison Officer
6 Years of Service
Ottawa Art Gallery / Galerie d’art d’Ottawa

Volunteer Of The Year

Bryce Kraeker
Past Chair/Vice-Chair Board of Directors Member, Permanent Collection Committee
15 Years of Service
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

The 48th Annual GOG Awards Shortlist

Alongside our Changemaker BIPOC Award, Colleague of the Year Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award winners, we’re thrilled to announce all the shortlisted nominees recognized across this year’s categories.

All shortlisted nominations are presented in alphabetical order. All winners will be announced live during the ceremony.

EXHIBITION AWARDS

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Over $50,000

The Clichettes: Lips, Wigs and Politics
McMaster Museum of Art

Sarindar Dhaliwal: when I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours
Art Gallery of Ontario

Stories my father couldn’t tell me: Jeff Thomas Origin
Ottawa Art Gallery / Galerie d’art d’Ottawa,

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Over $20,000 Thematic

Art Farm
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough

Love Languages
Art Windsor-Essex

To go boldly
Varley Art Gallery of Markham

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Over $20,000 Monographic

In spite of my own desire to see you disappear
Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art

Jane Martin: The Ties that Bind
Carleton University Art Gallery

Otherworld
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Under $20,000 Thematic

Erratic Behaviour
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

petal, clay, berry, leaf: natural inks, dyes, and pigments in Northern Ontario
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

What Remains
Art Gallery of Guelph

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Under $20,000 Monographic

Derek Sullivan: Field Notes
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Jinny Yu: at once
Art Gallery Of Ontario

Miles Rufelds: Salvage Archives
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Exhibition Of The Year Budget Under $10,000

Jordan Sook: The Closest I’ve Felt to God
Art Windsor-Essex

like heirlooms
Latcham Art Centre

Rebecca Belmore: March 5, 1819
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Innovation In A Collections Based Exhibition

Bev Pike: Grotesque: Spectacles of Miniature & Gigantic
Art Windsor-Essex

ᑕᐅᑐᑉᐹ Tautuppaa | Long Looking – Tim Pitsiulak
Art Gallery of Guelph

Test Kitchen: A Museum Project
Gardiner Museum

First Exhibition In A Public Art Gallery

Behnaz Fatemi: Rhythm of Remembering
Art Windsor-Essex

Jim Oskineegish: Keep Yourself Alive
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Best Exhibition In A Commercial Gallery

The winner will be announced during the ceremony.

Exhibition Design and Installation

Maryam Taghavi: Unfolding Worlds / شونده مریم تقوی: جهانهای عیان
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University

Miles Rufelds: Salvage Archives
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

To our reunited future
Visual Arts Centre Of Clarington

Public Program

Expanding Learning on Black History in Windsor Essex
Art Windsor-Essex

Field Trip 44
Gallery44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

A Journey through Otherworld
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Education

Creative Aging
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Sandwich Visionaries
Art Windsor-Essex

Illuminating Minds: The Art and Science of Light
Aga Khan Museum

47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

WRITING AWARDS

Curatorial Writing: Major Text

Ingrid Jones – “Labour”
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

John O’Brian – “John Scott and the Four Horsemen”
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Julie Rae Tucker – “Ktahwaalul | I love you”
Art Windsor-Essex

Curatorial Writing

Emily Laurent Henderson – “Dreaming Forward”
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Mark Kingwell – “The Clichettes in Concert”
McMaster Museum of Art

Richard Hill Sr – “Path of Liberation: Artistic Healing of Greg Staats”
Art Gallery of Hamilton

Curatorial Writing: Short Text

Jeffrey Nye – “Shaheer Zazai: Another word for translation. Another thread for thought.”
Latcham Art Centre

Lillian Allen – “Dubbing a Political History of The Clichettes (They Blew the Whole Shit Up!)”
McMaster Museum of Art

Art Writing

Chidera Ikewibe – “Recitation Test”
Art Windsor-Essex

Kristi Leora Gansworth – “Sacred Mirror, Blood of the Earth”
Carleton University Art Gallery

Richard William Hill – “You Can Be Any John Scott You Like”
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Art Publication

The Clichettes: Lips, Wigs, and Politics
McMaster Museum Of Art

Joyce Wieland: Heart On
Art Gallery Of Ontario

Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

DESIGN AWARDS

Art Book Design

Cecilia Berkovic – The Beyond Within: Annie MacDonell and Maïder Fortuné
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery

Lisa Kiss – The Milliner’s Daughter: The Artistic Practice of Ydessa Hendeles
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation

Robert Tombs – Marina Roy, Jinny Yu & the Painted Object
Royal Canadian Academy Of Arts

Exhibition Catalogue Design

Julie Scriver, Goose Lane Editions – Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World
Art Windsor-Essex

Lisa Kiss – Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University

OTAMI / Sebastien Aubin – Greg Staats: Runners Continuum
Art Gallery of Hamilton

Other Publication Design

Bob Gravelle – petal, clay, berry, leaf: natural inks, dyes, and pigments of Northern Ontario Publication
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Jay Wilson – Inside. Outside. Of. booklet
Art Gallery of Mississauga

Patrick Côté – The Air of the Now and Gone
Carleton University Art Gallery

Identity Renewal Design

The winner will be announced during the ceremony.

Budget Under $1,500 Design

Bob Gravelle – Out There: Art Card Series
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Marc Ngui – Recitation Test
Art Windsor-Essex

PERSONNEL AWARDS

Key Partnership Award

Ontario Science Centre
Illuminating Minds: The Art and Science of Light
Aga Khan Museum

Triple P.L.A.Y.
Free Admission Days and Family Crafternoons
The Muse: Lake Of The Woods Museum & Douglas Family Centre

Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority
The Bridge Artists, Cut-outs Off Cuts and Cast-offs, The Closest I’ve Felt to God, Sandwich Visionaries
Art Windsor-Essex

Join us for an unforgettable evening of celebration as we honour these remarkable achievements and reveal the winners!

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) has a 50 year history as an arts service organization (ASO) which represents over 270 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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