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Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Christine Howard Sandoval Named to 2023 Sobey Award Longlist
Artist and ECU faculty members Christine Howard Sandoval (left) and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill have been named to the 2023 Sobey Award Longlist. (Images courtesy the artists / National Gallery of Canada).
Posted on June 08, 2023
The artists and ECU faculty members are among 25 artists nominated from across Canada for consideration in the 2023 juried grand prize under the prestigious Sobey banner.
Artists and ECU faculty members Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Christine Howard Sandoval are among the artists long-listed for this year’s prestigious Sobey Art Award.
The award is presented annually to a visual artist who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. Twenty-five artists are chosen annually for the longlist, with five artists representing each of five regions across the country. Gabrielle and Christine are both included in the West Coast and Yukon region.
Five longlisted artists will be selected by jury for inclusion in the Sobey shortlist, to be announced in June. Each shortlisted artist is awarded $25,000. They will also have their work included in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in the fall. Each of the remaining 20 long-listed artists will receive $10,000.
The overall winner of the award will be announced in November and awarded a grand prize of $100,000.
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, 'Counterblaste' (installation view), 2021. Pantyhose, tobacco, beer can tabs, plastic flowers, dried flowers, earring beaded by Cheryl L'Hirondelle Hill, thread, charms, running shoes, rabbit-fur earrings, nail polish, variable. (Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia)
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, 'Last Hot Days,' 2022. Tobacco-infused Crisco, pigment, paper cutouts, dried flowers, blackberries, on paper. (Photo courtesy the artist; Unit 17, Vancouver; and Cooper Cole, Toronto)
Christine Howard Sandoval, 'Niniwas – to belong here' (installation view), 2022. Single-channel video (sound design in collaboration with Luz Fleming), 12 minutes. (Image courtesy of Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles)
Christine Howard Sandoval, 'Document Mounds – Application for Enrollment with the Indians of the State of California Under The Act of May 28, 1928,' (6 pages) (detail), 2021. Inkjet print on vinyl, tape, adobe mud and steel. (Image courtesy of Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles)
“Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is a Métis artist and writer who lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples,” reads Gabrielle’s bio. “Her sculptural practice explores the history of found materials, enquiring into concepts of land, property and economy.
“Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the 59th Venice Biennale, Le Magasin – CNAC in Grenoble, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Gallery TPW in Toronto. Hill is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that seeks to challenge Eurocentric art models, and centre the land and Indigenous epistemologies.”
“Christine Howard Sandoval is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the boundaries of representation, access and habitation, where what is held in the land, and what is held within state-sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning,” Christine’s bio reads. “Her work has recently been exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, ICA San Diego, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.
“Howard Sandoval currently lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation.”
Visit the National Gallery’s website to learn more about the Sobey Art Award.
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