Dallas Fellini
Winner of the 2024 Middlebrook Prize for the exhibition Some kind of we.
Dallas Fellini is a curator, writer, and artist living and working in TkarontoToronto. Their current research is situated at the intersection of trans studies and archival studies, interrogating the compromised conditions under which trans histories have been recorded and considering representational and archival alternatives to trans hyper-visibility. Dallas is currently pursuing a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies at University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from OCAD University.
Holly Chang
Winner of the 2023 Middlebrook Prize for the project The Third Scenario.
Holly Chang is an artist based in Toronto/Tkaronto who has recently completed her MA in Communication and Culture at TMU/York University. Chang – as a second-generation Chinese Canadian – maintains cultural ties with her cross-cultural identity and draws on her hybrid background for inspiration. Chang makes use of a variety of media including textiles, photography and natural dyeing. She recently exhibited her work in her first solo show with Gallery 44 in April 2022 and participated in the Banff Artist in Residence program in Spring 2022.
The Third Scenario
Erin Szikora
Winner of the 2023 Middlebrook Prize for the proposed exhibition Outside In Inside Out.
Erin Szikora is an emerging curator, researcher, and beadwork artist born and raised in Guelph and currently based in Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Visual Studies from University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University. Szikora has worked in curatorial and research roles at Art Gallery of Guelph, Art Canada Institute, Brock University, McMaster Museum of Art, OCAD University, and University of Toronto. She currently works as Assistant Curator – Indigenous Projects at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery …
Homecoming
For Catherine
2021
Mitra Fakhrashrafi & Vince Rozario
Joint winners of the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for the project Collective Offerings
Winner announcement
With a background in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi is a mixed media artist and curator interested in placemaking, anti-surveillance, and border abolition. She is a co-founder of Way Past Kennedy Road, a curatorial collective that supports artists living at the margins to produce, exhibit, and profit from their storytelling practices…
Vince Rozario is an independent critic, curator, writer, arts administrator, and community organizer based in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Dubai, and eventually settling in Canada, they attempt to map out trajectories of modernism, queerness, and decolonial futures across transnational axes with a specific emphasis on South Asian diasporas…
Collective Offerings
Maya Wilson-Sanchez
Winner of the 2020 Middlebrook Prize for the project Grounding
Maya Wilson-Sanchez is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from OCAD University, where she co-founded the Journal of Visual and Critical Studies and co-directed the OCAD U Student Press, and an MA in Art History from the University of Toronto. She has published essays, reviews, and exhibition texts in multiple venues …
Grounding
Missy LeBlanc
Winner of the 2019 Middlebrook Prize for the project Tina Guyani | Deer Road
Winner announcement
Missy LeBlanc is an emerging curator and writer whose curatorial practice is centered around care and kinship. With each exhibition, LeBlanc uses her position of responsibility as a curator to center the voices and works of marginalized artists while maintaining a strong relationship with them.
tina guyani | deer road
Lauren Fournier
Winner of the 2018 Middlebrook Prize for the project epistemologies of the moon
Awards Ceremony | Winner announcement
As an emerging curator and writer from Regina/Treaty 4 Territory, Saskatchewan. Lauren’s exhibition, epistemologies of the moon, is a group exhibition featuring work by six emerging and mid-career Canadian artists and one transnational contemporary feminist art collective. These are Canadian and Indigenous artists predominantly from Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, whose practices are indebted to ideas around intersectionality and the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of feminism today.
epistemologies of the moon
Yasmin Nurming-Por
Winner of the 2017 Middlebrook Prize for the project My curiosities are not your curios
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My curiosities are not your curios examines what it means to collect objects through the work of artists for whom collecting is a creative practice. Nurming-Por has selected contemporary artists from across North America whose “collections” address the politics of display, exploring how these systems can also be used to present alternative narratives.
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Isabelle and Sophie Lynch
Joint winners of the 2016 Middlebrook Prize for their project Blood Sweat Tears
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Blood Sweat Tears tackles urgent, enduring questions of labour and the body. They ask: how can we re-think notions of work and productivity, and how bodies move and interact with space and materials?
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Adam Barbu
Winner of the 2015 Middlebrook Prize for his project The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow
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Natasha Chaykowski and Alison Cooley
Joint winners of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize for their project I’m Feeling Lucky
I’m Feeling Lucky View the exhibition
Katherine Dennis
Winner of the 2013 Middlebrook Prize for her project as perennial as the grass
