Congratulations to recent graduate David Ezra Wang (BFA 2019) who is the regional winner (BC) of the BMO 1st Art Prize with his work Practicum (video, audio, 7 minutes 51 seconds).
Each regional winner received $7,500.
Each year, BMO 1st Art! invites deans and instructors from 110 undergraduate art programs across Canada to nominate three students from each of their studio specialties to submit a recent work. A selection committee then reviews the submissions.
The selection committee this year consisted of Melanie Colosimo, director/curator, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia; Francisco-Fernando Granados, faculty, OCAD University, Ontario; Marie-Eve Beaupré, curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec; and cheyanne turions, curator, SFU Galleries, British Columbia.
A virtual exhibition featuring all of this year’s recognized works is online.
