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LIZ MAGOR WINS AUDAIN PRIZE

By News Desk

A STATEMENT FROM ARTFORUM’S PUBLISHERS

ROBERT IRWIN (1928–2023)

HONG KONG–BASED AMTD BUYS THE ART NEWSPAPER

April 9, 2009 5:17 pm

Sculptor Liz Magor is the winner of the sixth annual Audain Prize, the biggest award in visual arts in British Columbia, reports the Vancouver Sun. Magor will be presented with thirty thousand dollars in an awards ceremony on May 11 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Previous winners have included Jeff Wall, Gordon Smith, and Ann Kipling. The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation also announced that Vancouver artists Kathy Slade and Mark Soo are the 2009 recipients of the VIVA Award. Each recipient will receive twelve thousand dollars each. The VIVA Awards are presented annually to celebrate exemplary achievement by British Columbia artists in midcareer.

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