46th Annual GOG Awards – Shortlist Announcement

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) is pleased to announce the Shortlisted Nominees for the 2023 GOG Awards. 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 Saturday, December 2nd, 2023, at 6:30 PM EST at The Sears Atrium at Toronto Metropolitan University, for a celebratory reception. Ceremony at 7:15 PM EST.

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Shortlisted nominations are presented in alphabetical order and listed by title, curator, organisation. Winners will be announced live during the ceremony.

More information available online.

2023 AWARDS SHORTLIST

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $50,000 Thematic

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity
Dr. Gerald McMaster, Nina Vincent, Noor Alé, Curators
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, partnership w/ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2022

BioCurious
Jennifer Matotek, Julie Rae Tucker, Curators & Exhibition Designers
Art Windsor-Essex, 2023

Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations
Felicia Mings, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Art Gallery of York University, 2023

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $20,000 Thematic

Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape
Amanda Cachia, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Art Windsor-Essex, partnership w/ Tangled Art + Disability, 2023

Nostalgia Interrupted
Ingrid Jones, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2022

Sutures
Matthew Kyba, Megan Kammerer, Curators
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 2023

Exhibition of the Year Budget over $20,000 Monographic

Duane Linklater: they have piled the stone / as they promised / without syrup
Melissa Bennett, Curator
Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2023

Jordan Bennett X2: Souvenir + pi’tawita’iek: we go up river
Ryan Rice, Lisa Deanne Smith, Curators
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, partnership w/ City of Toronto’s ArtworxTO, 2022

Scryer in the Archive
Julia Paoli, Curator
Mercer Union, partnership w/ Grazer Kunstverein (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam), 2022

Exhibition of the Year Budget under $20,000 Thematic

Land Protectors
Paige van Tassel, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, partnership w/ Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations & Northern Affairs Canada, National Film Board, 2022

THE COUNTER/SELF
Mona Filip, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 2023

Exhibition of the Year Budget under $20,000 Monographic

Anoxic Memory
Megan Kammerer, Curator
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 2023

Where Were You in ‘92?
Emelie Chhangur, Charlotte Gagnier, Nasrin Himada, Curators
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, partnership w/ Optica Gallery, 2022

Exhibition of the Year Budget under $10,000

Emily Pelstring: The Passion of the Hedge-Rider
Darryn Doull, Curator & Exhibition Coordinator
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 2022-2023

The Artists of Colour: Abstracted Realities
Julie Rae Tucker, Dennis K. Smith, Curators & Exhibition Designers
Art Windsor-Essex, 2022- 2023

The Dark Room
Emelie Chhangur, Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Curators
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2022

Innovation in a Collections-Based Exhibition

Collections Count + Care
Alicia Boutilier (Lead Curator), Emelie Chhangur, Sebastian De Line, Sunny Kerr, Qanita Lilla, Elyse Longair, Carleigh Milburn, Kirsty Roberston, Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Curators
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2022

Drawing on Our History
Heather Igloliorte, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Anna Khimasia, Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Danielle Printup, Heather Anderson, Sandra Dyck, Curatorial Team
Carleton University Art Gallery, 2023

Field Notes
Anik Claude, Curator, Exhibition Designer & Exhibition Coordinator
Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 2023

First Exhibition in a Public Art Gallery

Tim Whiten | Elemental: Earthen
Chiedza Pasipanodya, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Art Gallery of Peterborough, partnership w/ McMaster Museum of Art, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Gallery of York University, 2023

Transformations
Oriah Scott, Curator
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2023

Exhibition Installation & Design

A Family Palette: Frances-Anne Johnston, Franz Johnston, & Franklin Arbuckle
Rebecca Basciano, Curator
Ottawa Art Gallery, partnership w/ RiverBink Art Museum, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, 2022-2023

Jordan Bennett X2: Souvenir + pi’tawita’iek: we go up river
Ryan Rice, Lisa Deanne Smith, Curators
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, partnership w/ City of Toronto’s ArtworxTO, 2022

Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations
Felicia Mings, Curator & Exhibition Designer
Art Gallery of York University, 2023

Public Program

Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art
Sandra Dyck, Michael Orsini, Fiona Wright, Public Programmers
Carleton University Art Gallery, 2023

Wish You Were Here, With Here Was Better
Here, Better, Now
Ellyn Walker, Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Zoë Dodd, Fraser McCallum, Public Programmers
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2022

Z’otz*Collective: Community Collaboration
Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, & Ilyana Martinez (Z’otz*Collective); Sophie Hinch, Jason Parete (Art Windsor-Essex), Public Programmers
Art Windsor-Essex, 2022-2023

Education

Art on my Mind 2022
Allyson Adley, Kibra Tesfaye, Dynasty Williams, Curtia Wright, Ray Vidal, Educators
Art Gallery of York University, 2022

Open Secret: Screening, Conversation & Workshops
Nasrin Himada, Educator
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2023

Quilt Codes of the Underground Railroad with The Artists of Colour
Nicole A. Talbot, Manzella V. Vincent, Lois Smith Larkin, Lana E. Talbot, Connie Lee-Turner, Dennis K. Smith, Susan Johnson-Washington, Edward Milo Johnson, James Walls, Artists & Educators
Art Windsor-Essex, 2023

Art Writing

Ella Finer, Writer, “The Sea in the Forest,” From the publication Living with Concepts, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga

Dr. Gerald McMaster &Dr. Nina Vincent, Writers, “Epistolary Exchange: To the Edges of the World Peripheries at the Centre”, From the publication Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery partnership w/ Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge (OCAD University)

Sebastian De Line, Qanita Lilla, & Emelie Chhangur, Writers, Mark Birksted, Graphic Design, “Poetic Distillation: Acrostic Poems as Archival & Social Interventions into Transhistorical Black &Indigenous Presences in Kingston (19th-21st Century)”, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Key Partnership

Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, Art Gallery of Sudbury | Galerie d’art de Sudbury

Ottawa Black Art Kollective, Ottawa Art Gallery / Galerie d’art d’Ottawa

Colleague of the Year

Caitlin Donnelly
Digital Marketing Coordinator
5 Years of Service
Textile Museum of Canada

Tom Primeau
Senior Officer, Operations &Visitor Services
40 Years of Service
Art Windsor-Essex

Volunteer of the Year

Anne Smith
Gallery Guide
23 Years of Service
Art Windsor-Essex

Kathryn Ellis
Shop Volunteer
One Year of Service
Textile Museum of Canada

Thank you to our jurors: Julie Bevan, Michelle Jacques, Dawn Owen, Shani K Parsons, Daniella Sanader, Alana Traficante, Kamila Westerback, Jayne Wilkinson, Annie Wong!

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) has a 50 year history as an arts service organisation (ASO) which represents over 260 members—public art galleries, museums, artist-run-centres, & arts organisations. 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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