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Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts Cumulative List of Winners

2013

Marcel Barbeau, painter and sculptor (Montreal, QC)
Rebecca Belmore, visual artist (Winnipeg, MB)
William D. MacGillivray, filmmaker and director (Rose Bay, NS) 

Gordon Monahan, sound artist, composer and media artist (Meaford, ON)
Greg Payce, artist-potter (Calgary, AB) - Saidye Bronfman Award
Chantal Pontbriand, curator, art critic (Montreal/Paris) - Outstanding Contribution
Colette Whiten, sculptor installation artist (Toronto/Haliburton, ON)

2012

  • Margaret Dragu, performance artist (Richmond, BC)
    Geoffrey James, photographer (Toronto, ON)
    Charles Lewton-Brain, artist-goldsmith (Calgary, AB) - Saidye Bronfman Award
    Ron Martin, visual artist (Toronto, ON)
    Diana Nemiroff, art gallery director and curator (Ottawa, ON) - Outstanding Contribution
    Jan Peacock, visual artist – media and installation (Halifax, NS)
    Royden Rabinowitch, sculptor (Waterloo, ON)
    Jana Sterbak, visual artist (Montreal, QC)

    2011

  • Geneviève Cadieux, photographer (Montreal, QC)
  • Robert Fones, visual artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Michael Morris, visual, performance artist (Vancouver/Victoria, BC)
  • David Rimmer, filmmaker (Vancouver, BC)
  • Barbara Sternberg, filmmaker (Toronto, ON)
  • Kye-Yeon Son, metalsmith (Halifax, NS) - Saidye Bronfman Award
  • Nancy Tousley, art critic (Calgary, AB) - Outstanding Contribution
  • Shirley Wiitasalo, painter (Toronto, ON)

2010

  • Robert Davidson, Haida sculptor (Surrey, BC)
  • André Forcier, filmmaker (Longueuil, QC)
  • Rita Letendre, painter (Toronto, ON)
  • Tom Sherman, video artist (Syracuse, NY)
  • Gabor Szilasi, photographer (Westmount, QC)
  • Claude Tousignant, painter (Montreal, QC)
  • Terry Ryan (Toronto, ON)
  • Ione Thorkelsson, glass sculptor (Roseisle, MB) - Saidye Bronfman Award

2009

  • John Greer, sculptor (LaHave, NS)
  • Nobuo Kubota, installation/performance (Toronto, ON)
  • Rita Lynn McKeough, installation/performance (Calgary, AB)
  • Gordon Smith, painter (West Vancouver, BC)
  • Robert Morin, director and filmmaker (Montreal, QC)
  • Raymond Moriyama, architect (Toronto, ON)
  • Kim Ondaatje (Verona, ON) and Anthony Urquhart (Stratford, ON)
  • Kevin Lockau, glass, iron and wood sculptor (Bancroft, ON) - Saidye Bronfman Award

2008

  • Kenojuak Ashevak, visual artist (Cape Dorset, NU)   
  • Serge Giguère, filmmaker (Saint-Norbert-d’Arthabaska, QC)
  • Chantal Gilbert, jeweller (Quebec, QC) - Saidye Bronfman Award
  • Michel Goulet, sculptor (Montreal, QC) 
  • Alex Janvier, painter (Cold Lake, AB)
  • Tanya Mars, performance artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Eric Metcalfe, multidisciplinary artist (Vancouver, BC)
  • Shirley Thomson (Ottawa, ON)

2007

  • Aganetha Dyck, sculptor, installation, mixed media artist (Winnipeg, MB) 
  • Ian Carr-Harris, sculptor, installation, photographer (Toronto)
  • Bruce Elder, filmmaker (Toronto)
  • Murray Favro, multidisciplinary artist (London, ON)
  • Fernand Leduc, painter (Montréal)
  • Paul Mathieu, ceramist (Vancouver, BC) - Saidye Bronfman Award
  • Daphne Odjig, painter, print maker (Penticton, BC)
  • David Silcox, arts advocate, writer, educator (Toronto)

2006

  • Mowry Baden, sculptor (Victoria, B.C.)
  • Micheline Beauchemin, textile artist and weaver (Les Grondines, Quebec)
  • Vera Frenkel, multidisciplinary artist (Toronto)
  • Peggy Gale, independent curator, writer (Toronto)
  • Kenneth Lochhead, painter (Ottawa)
  • Arnaud Maggs, visual artist (Toronto)
  • Peter Wintonick, film producer, director, critic and editor (Montreal)

2005

  • Carl Beam, Artist (Manitoulin Island, ON)
  • Lynne Cohen, Photographer (Montreal, QC)
  • Roland Poulin, Sculptor (Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir, QC)
  • Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Video Artists (Toronto, ON)
  • Françoise Sullivan, Painter, Sculptor and Dancer (Montreal, QC)
  • Paul Wong, Video Artist (Vancouver, BC)
  • Claude Gosselin, Curator (Montreal, QC)

2004

  • Iain Baxter, Visual Artist (Windsor, ON)
  • Eric Cameron, Painter (Calgary, AB)
  • Tom Hill (Ohsweken, ON)
  • Istvan Kantor, Media Artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Garry Neill Kennedy, Painter (Halifax, NS)
  • John Oswald, Media Artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Ian Wallace, Painter (Vancouver, BC)

2003

  • Robert Archambeau, Ceramist (Winnipeg, MB)
  • Alex Colville, Painter (Wolfville, NS)
  • Gathie Falk, Artist (Vancouver, BC)
  • Betty Goodwin, Artist (Montréal, QC)
  • Walter Harris, Sculptor(Hazelton, BC)
  • Takao Tanabe, Painter (Parksville, BC)
  • Suzanne Rivard LeMoyne (Montréal, QC)

2002

  • AA Bronson, Visual Artist (Toronto, ON and New York, NY)
  • Charles Gagnon, Visual Artist (Montréal, QC)
  • Edward Poitras, Visual Artist (Regina, SK and Québec City, QC)
  • David Rokeby, Media Artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Barbara Steinman, Visual Artist (Montréal, QC)
  • Irene Whittome, Visual Artist (Montréal, QC)
  • Ydessa Hendeles (Toronto, ON)

2001

  • Douglas Cardinal, Architect (Ottawa, ON)
  • Tom Dean, Visual Artist (Toronto, ON)
  • Russell C. Goodman, Stained Glass Artist (Kelowna, BC)
  • Jamelie Hassan, Visual Artist (London,ON)
  • Liz Magor, Visual Artist (Vancouver, BC)
  • Alanis Obomsawin, Filmmaker (Montreal,QC)
  • Joan Chalmers, Philanthropist (Toronto, ON)

2000

  • Jocelyne Alloucherie, Sculpture (Montreal, QC)
  • Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Painting (Montreal, QC)
  • John Chalke, Fine crafts (Calgary, AB)
  • Jacques Giraldeau, Film (Montreal, QC)
  • John Scott, Painting (Toronto, ON)
  • Michael Snow, Film (Toronto, ON)
  • Doris Shadbolt, Voluntarism (Vancouver, BC)