Bridget Moser, artist, 2023 laureate of The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts and 2015 laureate of a Saunderson Prize

John G. Hampton, Executive Director and CEO of the MacKenzie Art Gallery and 2016 laureate of The Hnatyshyn Foundation – TD Bank Group Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art

Michelle Jacques, Head of Exhibitions and Collections and Chief Curator, Remai Modern, and winner of the 2022 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence

Hajra Waheed, multidisciplinary artist and winner of the 2022 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts

Dr. Heather Igloliorte, art historian, curator, Tier 1 University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts, associate professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Co-Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Director of the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq / Pijariuqsarniq Project (2018-2025). Dr. Igloliorte was the 2021 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.

Emelie Chhangur , Exhibition Curator/Director of the Agnes Etherington Art Center, and 2020 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.

”I appreciate each of these artists for all their differences. They are the carriers of Canada’s art historical futurities. I am very honoured to have had the opportunity to do this work."

Catherine Bédard, Exhibition Curator/Deputy Director of the Canadian Cultural Center, Canadian Embassy, Paris, and 2019 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.

”The three artists making this selection come from very different esthetic and conceptual backgrounds. What they have in common, though, is to propose a reflection on how we relate to the current world, on our relationship to the material, virtual and psychic environment. They come from elsewhere, which gives them a dimension that was of particular interest for me. Kuwait-born, Jude Abu Zaineh immigrated from Palestine and creates biotechnological art founded on food, sharing and recycling. Sam Bourgault, a mathematician and scientist, now conceives visual and sound worlds as sophisticated as they are disturbing, giving shape to technological eeriness. German-born, Marlon Kroll constantly crosses the boundaries between the creation of images and material objects, the world of contemporary music, and the conception of virtual environments, with a virtuosity and creative freedom which are in themselves a manifesto for "global circularity."

Daina Warren, curator and 2018 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.

“It has been real honour to be a past recipient of the 2018 Hnatyshyn Foundation Awards, and even more of an honour to be asked to assist with the selection of some of this year’s 2019 recipients. It is my task to choose three amazing individuals that are emerging artists, fresh at the beginning of their careers. I am very happy to support these outstanding people with The William & Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists and looking forward to seeing what they all produce in the coming years.”

Brandy Dahrouge, Director of Visual Arts, Banff Centre

Dominique Fontaine, Curator/Researcher/Cultural Advisor/Founding Director, aPOSteRIORI, Montréal

Stuart Keeler, Senior Art Curator for TD Arts, Global Corporate Citizenship

Tania Willard, Curator, 2016 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. The Hnatyshyn Foundation would like to thank the jurors for their generous assistance.

"It was a pleasure to join this year's art panel to help the Hnatyshyn Foundation select the 2018 award recipients," says Stuart Keeler, Senior Art Curator at TD Arts, Global Corporate Citizenship. "The work and intention of the group selected will help increase access to Canadian contemporary art through new ideas and mediums that everyone can engage with and feel connected to."

Andrea Fatona

John Hampton

Jinny Yu

Candice Hopkins, 2015 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Yukon, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was curatorial advisor for dOCUMENTA(14) opening in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany in 2017.

Daina Augaitis, 2014 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and former Chief Curator and Associate Director at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Marie-Josée Jean, 2013 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art, teacher, curator, and Executive and Artistic Director of VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine in Montréal.

Nicole Gingras

Philip Monk