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- The 2021 awards returned to their traditional scheduling and presentation in the fall of the year, following the postponement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
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The 2021 awards returned to their traditional scheduling and presentation in the fall of the year, following the postponement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
Governor General's Awards. Over the last century, governors general have created many awards and trophies to show gratitude to outstanding individuals, teams and organizations and to inspire all Canadians to excellence.
Honours recipients inspire us through their exceptional achievements. Use our search tool to find out who they are.
Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the recipient of the 2021 National Arts Centre Award. The Vancouver native and Hollywood star shared a video that accompanied the award on social media...
- Artistic Achievement Award
- Composition of Peer Assessment Committees For 2021
- Outstanding Contribution
- Video Portraits
Media Arts
1. Luc Courchesne, Media Artist (Montréal, Quebec) “His work has made him one of the key creators/inventors to have opened new avenues and blazed new trails for practices that are sure to grow in leaps and bounds as fresh generations of creators enter the field of digital art.” - Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (PFOAC), Pierre-François Ouellette, Director (nominator) 1. Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Interdisciplinary Artist (Toronto, Ontario, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) “In current times o...
Visual arts
1. Germaine Arnaktauyok, Visual Artist (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) “Germaine Arnaktauyok has charted her own course and created her own unique visual language, and her lifelong interest in her own unique Inuit culture has been an inspiration to many younger artists.” - The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Darlene Coward Wight, Curator of Inuit Art (nominator) 1. Lori Blondeau, Visual Artist (Winnipeg, Manitoba) “Blondeau remains a decisive figure in Indigenous and Canadian contemporary art. Her...
Saidye Bronfman Award 1. Michael Hosaluk, Wood Artist (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) 2. Joon Hee Kim, Ceramic Artist (Oakville, Ontario) 3. Marie Pierre Daigle, Textile and Glass Artist, and Executive Director of Métiers d’art Bas-Saint-Laurent(Kamouraska, Quebec) Artistic Achievement Award and Outstanding Contribution Award 1. Margaret Dragu, Performan...
The Outstanding Contribution Award is given to artists who have made an outstanding contribution to the visual arts, the media arts, or fine craft, in a volunteer or professional capacity.
You can now watch the original video portraits featuring each of the winners. Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts in partnership with the Independent Media Arts Alliance and created by Canadian filmmakers, the shorts are available online as well as on Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment system (from May to October 2021).
Recipients of the Medal of Bravery. Sylvain Beauchamp, M.B. Saint-Jérôme, Quebec. On May 11, 2017, Sylvain Beauchamp rescued his friend who had fallen off of his motorcycle on a busy highway in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.
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May 4, 2021 · The recipients of the 2021 Governor General’s Innovation Awards are: Swift Medical: AI Powered Wound Care. (Dr. Sheila Wang) Dr. Sheila Wang receives the Governor General’s Innovation Award for her leadership in the creation of an artificial intelligence-driven technology for monitoring wound care patients remotely.
