Newswire | Canada Council Prize Recipients

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Across artistic disciplines and at different stages of their careers, this year’s prize recipients are helping to shape and strengthen Canada’s arts sector through their work. The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to recognize artists and arts professionals whose creativity, commitment and contributions enrich communities and artistic practices across the country.

Bernard Diamant Prize

Rose Lebeau Sabourin

Photo: Lucie Photographie

A Québec-based soprano recognized for her rich timbre and musicality, with recent performances at the Vienna Opera Festival and at Opéra de Québec and in Carmina Burana productions in Québec City.

Canada Council for the Arts Photography Prize

Lucie Rocher

A woman with cropped dark hair wearing a black outfit poses for the camera in a chiaroscuro setting.

Photo: Document original

A Montréal-based French and Canadian artist whose work explores personal archives, photography and material culture through exhibitions presented in Canada and internationally.

Jacqueline Lemieux Prize

Pulga Muchochoma

A man in an orange-and-blue striped asymmetrical top and a colourful beaded necklace poses hands steepled before a brick wall.

Photo: Christopher Cushman

A Toronto-based dancer, choreographer and artistic director whose practice has evolved from his early training in Mozambique to a dynamic career in Canada.

Joan Yvonne Lowndes Award

Claire Shea

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a red top and matching lipstick smiles, gazing off to her right.

Photo: Claire Shea @sarahbodri

A Toronto-based curator recognized for her international curatorial work with leading contemporary art institutions and biennials in Canada, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and beyond.

Joseph S. Stauffer Prizes

The following emerging or mid-career artists stand out for their strong artistic potential in their respective disciplines.

Literature

Clémence Dumas-Côté

Photo: Katya Konioukhova

A writer and poet from Quebec’s Eastern Townships whose award-winning work has been published in French and translated into English.

Music

Aquakultre

A man with black hair and a mustache wearing a white T-shirt sits away from a piano, arms crossed and eyes closed.

Photo: Mo Phúng

The artistic voice of Nova Scotia-based musician and storyteller Lance Sampson, whose genre-spanning work explores ancestry, history and community through music and multimedia projects.

Visual Arts

Kosisochukwu Nnebe

A woman with braids styled around her head wearing clear-framed glasses, orange dangle earrings and a black tube top stares into the camera.

Photo: Vladim Vilain

A Nigerian-Canadian conceptual artist and researcher whose internationally exhibited work reimagines historical narratives through the experiences and perspectives of Black women.