Announcing the 2025 Graduation Award Winners
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This year, 36 students were honoured with graduation awards for their exceptional work and achievements.
The Graduating Class of 2025 was the largest class of Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s (ECU) history and created some of the most stunning and dynamic works at The Show, our annual student exhibition.
Our esteemed judges conferred 36 graduation awards and 23 honourable mentions to these students for their phenomenal achievements. In total, 36 students received awards valued at $26,150 based on their works and screenings exhibited in-person and online at The Show, their GPAs, or a combination of the two.
Several students received multiple awards and honourable mentions:
- Parnian Anaa (BDes) won the DESIS Radical Sustainability Award and the Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement for their project ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.
- Marissa Hendrawan (BMA) won the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Media Arts and shared the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation with Adryan Jones, Nieve A Paw Cho Sing, Filipe Canavarro Pereira, Annabelle Bianca Sugiarto, Lavina Natalie Wijaya and Qianyu Xie for their project, Kepme'k.
The university is immensely grateful to our valued donors for supporting emerging and innovative artists. The juries, made up of talented industry experts, enthusiastic curators, and passionate artists and designers, thoughtfully deliberated to select the winners.
We are appreciative of our eminent jurors and everyone who assisted in the awards process. The full list of honourees is below.
You can view their exceptional, award-winning work and videos through The Show online exhibition site. There, you can scroll through the works and find the artists' social handles to follow their work beyond graduation.
2025 Graduation Award Winners + Honourable Mentions
Master of Design + Bachelor of Design
DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Award Recipient
DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Honourable Mention
DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Honourable Mention
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Honourable Mention
ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Award Recipient
ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Honourable Mention
ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Honourable Mention
ECU Health Design Award for Service
Award Recipient
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Award Recipient
Glenmore Custom Print + Packaging Award
Award Recipient
Glenmore Custom Print + Packaging Award
Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Design | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Honourable Mention
Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award | Honourable Mention
Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award | Honourable Mention
WA Architects Ltd Master of Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Parnian Anaa (BDes)
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
Sania Siddiqui (BDes)
Ivee
Michelle Qu (BDes)
Of Earth
Lena Lodrin (BDes)
SELVAGE /\/\/ SELVAGE
Eden Eisses (MDes)
TIDETOSS
Clara Monteiro Gonçalves (BDes)
Clear House, Clear Mind
Mathis Pourrier (BDes)
Élever
Natalie Schmidt (BDes)
Attune
Anoushka Aneesh Nair (MDes)
Ping Service
Parnian Anaa (BDes)
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
Samaah Siddiqui (BDes)
A Field Guide to Birds – that Might Cease to Exist
Chih Chi Chen (BDes)
Fruition of Harvest
Jessica Skye Ruffolo (BDes)
Clarity
Luke Dunn (BDes)
RE-IMGN
Camila Lozano (BDes)
Intertwined
Victoria Kwan Yee Chan (BDes)
Kuori
Hanna Kim (BDes)
Uri
João Bendoval (BDes)
Link
Qianxuan Chen (MDes)
Embracing Motherhood: No Little Thing
Bachelor of Media Arts
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Media Arts | Award Recipient
Sophie Burnett Memorial Award
Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 2D or Experimental Animation) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 2D or Experimental Animation) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 2D or Experimental Animation) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 3D Computer Animation) | Award Recipients
Marissa Hendrawn (BMA)
Kepme'k
Lula-Belle Jedynak (BMA)
JESTER
Aranza Bergés (BMA)
Shapes of Us
Emilio Terrazas (BMA)
Shapes of Us
Luna Davies (BMA)
Number 07
Marissa Hendrawan, Adryan Jones, Filipe Canavarro Pereira, Nieve A Paw Cho Sing, Annabelle Bianca Sugiarto, Lavina Natalie Wijaya and Qianyu Xie
Kepme'k
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 3D Computer Animation) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in Film/Live Action) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in New Media/Sound Arts) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in New Media/Sound Arts) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in Installation) | Award Recipient
VIVO Award for Distribution
Award Recipient
Soo Kyung (BMA)
The Tiny Little Musician
Frangeliz Del M Ocasio (BMA)
Signals in Orbit
Nat Bates (BMA)
Warmth
Ava Stanley (BMA)
What vermin is this?
Kiyana Darbandi (BMA)
Untitled
Alexandra Ostroushko (BMA)
Leonafia
Master of Fine Arts + Bachelor of Fine Arts
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Honourable Mention
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Judith Warren Painting Award
Award Recipient
Mackenzie Award in Painting
Award Recipient
Mackenzie Award in Painting
Honourable Mention
Mackenzie Award in Painting
Honourable Mention
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Award Recipient
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (BFA)
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (BFA)
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (MFA)
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (MFA)
Honourable Mention
The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography
Award Recipient
Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Saralee James Memorial Award | Award Recipient
Emma Rae Binnendyk (BFA)
Habited [An Embodiment Series]
Mihiro Oikawa (BFA)
What Color Can Say
Thiseni Kristhorubadu (BFA)
Cocking, Aiming, and Hitting
Jacie Ru (MFA)
Hardly Imaginary
Alpha Yu (BFA)
A Canadian's Guide to Making Manga
Lauren James-Davies (BFA)
Interlock
Paloma Ruiz Chong (BFA)
Pools and Tables
Emily Reilhan (MFA)
Perpetual Distance
Rylee Taje (BFA)
My Hair Tangles with Sweetgrass, Strawberries Stain My Hands
Dima Husein (BFA)
Islamic Modern Medicine in the 10th Century
Ash Boan (BFA)
Nothing is synthetic
Leanne Inuarak-Dall (BFA)
Untitled (I'm still working on it)
Rachel Crane (BFA)
“¿Es Chapina?”
Mei Zhao (MFA)
0.5 in Limbo
Sansa Wu (MFA)
A Bluer Sea
Eknoor Thind (BFA)
The Lotus Flower
Allan Xiao (BFA)
Monument to Uncertainty
Nedda May (MFA)
It Takes a Darlin' to Know a Darlin'
Claudia Goulet-Blais (BFA)
mère-fille: an archive of care
Vancouver "Art Attack" Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
Award Recipient
Vancouver "Art Attack" Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
Award Recipient
Vancouver "Art Attack" Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
Honourable Mention
Nicole Cruz Bie (BFA) and Matthew N.M. Bordeleau (BDes)
red horse oscillating in the undercurrent
Jen Cheon and Gloria Lee (BFA)
Incense of You
Laura Clair Perry (BFA)
Them Bones