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The VIVA Awards are $15,000 prizes, granted annually to British Columbian mid-career artists chosen for "outstanding achievement and commitment" by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. The awards are presented by the Shadbolt Foundation in conjunction with the Alvin Balkind Curator's Prize and the Max Wyman Award for Critical Writing.


Award winners

* 1988
Stan Douglas Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining t ...
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Carel Moiseiwitsch Carel is a given name, and may refer to: Arts * Carel Blotkamp, Dutch artist and art historian * Carel de Moor, Dutch etcher and painter * Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils * Carel van Mander, Flemish painter ...
* 1989 Carole Itter, Neil Wedman * 1990 Terry Ewasiuk, David Ostrem * 1991
Persimmon Blackbridge Persimmon Blackbridge (born 1951)Inductee: Persimmon Blackbridge
Elspeth Pratt, Henry Tsang * 1994 Mike MacDonald, Chick Rice * 1995 Kati Campbell, Alan Storey * 1996
Lorna Brown Lorna Brown (born 1958) is a Canadian artist, curator and writer. Her work focuses on public space, social phenomena such as boredom, and institutional structures and systems. Background Lorna Brown was born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada. She ...
, Phillipe Raphanel * 1997 Award of Honour Joan Lowndes, Ian Wallace * 1998
Cornelia Wyngaarden Cornelia Wyngaarden (born 1942) is a Canadian media artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She creates works in video, sculpture, and installation, and has played a significant role in the development and institutionalization of new media in ...
, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun * 1999 Myfanwy MacLeod,
Judy Radul Judy Radul (born in 1962 in Lillooet, British Columbia) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator. She is known for her performance art and media installations, as well as her critical writing. Biography She has exhibited her wo ...
* 2000
Haruko Okano Haruko Okano (born March 26, 1945) is a process-based, collaborative, multidisciplinary, mixed-media artist, poet, community organizer, and activist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Life Haruko Okano was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is a ...
, Jerry Pethick * 2001
Dana Claxton Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. ...
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Brian Jungen Brian Jungen (born April 29, 1970 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is an artist of Dane-zaa and Swiss ancestry living and working in the North Okanagan of British Columbia.Hoffmann, Jens. "Brian Jungen: Prototypes for New Understanding ." ''Flas ...
* 2002 Award of Honour
Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Van ...
* 2003
Geoffrey Farmer Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) is best known for extensive multimedia installations made of cut-out images which form collages. Life Early career Farmer was born on Eagle Island, BC in 1967. His career as an artist was unplanned, but he attended an ...
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Kelly Wood Kelly Schafer ( Wood, born 8 April 1981 in Dundee) is a Scottish-Canadian curler who has represented her Scotland and Great Britain on an International and Olympic level. After playing in the 2010 World Championships in Swift Current, Sask ...
* 2004
Rebecca Belmore Rebecca Belmore D.F.A. (born 1960) is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation). B ...
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Ron Terada Ron Terada (born 1969) is a Vancouver-based artist working in various media, including painting, photography, video, sound, books, and graphic design."Ron Terada: Being There," Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, accessed June 3, 2011, http ...
* 2005 Hadley+Maxwell, Stephen Shearer * 2006 Damian Moppett, Marianne Nicolson * 2007 Luanne Martineau,
Isabelle Pauwels Isabelle Pauwels (born 1975 in Kortrijk, Belgium) is a Vancouver-based artist who works primarily in video-based art. Pauwels received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and obtained an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pau ...
* 2008 Tim Lee, Kevin Schmidt * 2009
Kathy Slade Kathy Slade (1966) is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. ...
, Mark Soo * 2010
Germaine Koh Germaine Koh (born 1967) is a Malaysian-born and Canadian conceptual artist based in Vancouver. Her works incorporate the artistic styles of neo-conceptual art, minimalism, and environmental art, and is concerned with the significance of everyda ...
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Marina Roy Marina Roy is a visual artist, educator and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Life Roy was born in Quebec City, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in her youth. She obtained a B.A. in French Literature at Université Laval, a B. ...
* 2011 Reece Terris,
Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger is a Canadian visual artist, film maker and educator. Her work engages relational practices rooted in sustained collaborations with groups or communities through social, theatrical and textual processes that often operate outside t ...
* 2012
Beau Dick Beau Dick (November 23, 1955 – March 27, 2017) was a Kwakwaka'wakw Northwest Coast artist and Chief who lived and worked in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. He was a contemporary artist, activist and hereditary Chief from the Namgis First ...
, Ron Tran * 2013 Elizabeth McIntosh * 2014
Skeena Reece Skeena Reece (born 1974) is a Canadians, Canadian First Nations in Canada, First Nations artist whose multi-disciplinary practice includes such genres as performance art, "sacred clowning," songwriting, and video art. Reece is of Cree, Tsimshian, ...
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Mina Totino Mina Totino (born 1949) is a Canadian painter currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Totino's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Berlin. She first came to prominence in the 1985 ''Young Romantic''s exh ...
* 2015
Elizabeth Zvonar Elizabeth Zvonar (born 1972) is a Canadian contemporary artist who works primarily with mixed-media collage and sculpture based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is currently represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canad ...
* 2016 Kelly Lycan, Raymond Boisjoly * 2017 Lyse Lemieux * 2018 Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed,
Charlene Vickers Charlene Vickers (born 1970) is an Anishnabe, specifically Ojibwa, artist from Kenora, Ontario currently living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and received an MFA from Simon ...
*2019
Krista Belle Stewart Krista Belle Stewart is a First Nations visual artist from Canada. Stewart works in a variety of formats, using archival materials, photographs, and collage. Early life Stewart is from the Upper Nicola Band in the British Columbia interior regio ...
*2020 Lucie Chan, Cindy Mochizuki, Tania Willard *2021 Diyan Achjadi, Samuel Roy-Bois


References

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