Installation view, New Generation Photography Award, April 13 – August 19, 2018, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC
PhotoLab 4: New Generation Photography Award Exhibition
PhotoLab 4: New Generation Photography Award Exhibition
View works of art by the three winners of the inaugural New Generation Photography Award: Elisa Julia Gilmour, Meryl McMaster, and Deanna Pizzitelli.
This prize recognizes outstanding work by Canadians 30 and under, working in the photographic arts.
Award recipients will also be included in education programming and present artist talks on Saturday May 5, 2018 at 1 pm at the National Gallery of Canada.
Organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada in partnership with Scotiabank.
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Winners of the 2018 New Generation Photography Award
Elisa Julia Gilmour
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Elisa Julia Gilmour is an emerging Canadian artist producing still and moving images. Her work engages with the notion of ephemerality through gestural storytelling. Her most recent project, Éperdument (Madly) (2016), which included a three-channel video installation and a publication of short stories, investigates how a Corsican mythological figure has enlivened a contemporary sense of identity. She has exhibited at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Ryerson Image Centre and the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Meryl McMaster
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Meryl McMaster is a Canadian-based artist and photography graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She was born and raised in Ottawa and is of Plains Cree/European decent. Her work explores questions of identity, representation, perception, myth, memory and the environment. Her distinct approach to photographic self-portraiture has been influenced by her experiences working in and exploring remote Canadian landscapes, as well as by contemplations over the complexities of her family heritage. Her solo exhibition Confluence (Curated by Heather Anderson and originating at Carleton University Art Gallery) is travelling to four more venues across Canada.
Deanna Pizzitelli
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Deanna Pizzitelli is a Canadian photo-based artist and educator. She completed her BFA in Photography at Ryerson University, and her MFA at the University of Arizona. With an emphasis on the emotional landscape, Pizzitelli uses analogue processes to explore themes of fantasy, desire, longing and loss. Her practice is motivated by the act of travel, the visual residue of her many intersections with landscape, wildlife and culture. Pizzitelli’s work was recently exhibited at AIPAD: The Photography Show, New York, and Paris Photo, 2017. She has attended residencies in Canada, Iceland and Portugal. She is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.
The Canadian Photography Institute, in partnership with Scotiabank, is proud to present the innovative work of the talented young artists awarded the 2018 New Generation Photography Award.
— Ann Thomas, Interim Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada
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