Ron Terada Receives Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2007-05-22 17:28
Ron Terada
Posted: Tue, 2007-05-22 17:28

Ron Terada, ECI sessional faculty and 1991 graduate, was awarded a 2006 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts on March 14 at a ceremony at the Contemporary Art Gallery // BC Binning Gallery (the award was announced in October 2006).

The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council: music, theatre, dance, visual arts, media arts, writing and publishing and interdisciplinary arts. The prizes were created using funds from a generous bequest made by the late Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton to the Canada Council.

Interdisciplinary artist Robin Brass, media artist Pascale Ferland, dancer Santee Smith, author Peter Knudtson, jazz musician and composer Brad Turner, and playwright Larry Tremblay, rounded out the 2006 award recipients.

Ron Terada - Visual Art
Visual artist Ron Terada was born in Vancouver, where he still lives and works. Ron studied at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design from 1987 to 1991. Recent one-person exhibitions include Stay Away From Lonely Places at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK (2006) and You Have Left the American Sector at the Art Gallery of Windsor (2005). Recent group exhibitions include The Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed at Store Gallery, London UK and at the Kadist Foundation, Paris (both 2006), Intertidal at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium (2005) and General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1990-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2005).

In 2004, Terada won the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation and received a Canada Council grant for a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York. His works can be found in the collection of the National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Mr. Terada is represented by the Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. He is participating in the 6th Shanghai Biennale, which runs until November 5, 2006.

For more information about Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards visit the Canada Council website.