Camille Turner finalist for Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize

The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Awards have been announced for 2018. 

Winners are Vera Frenkel, who receives the $10,000 Founders Achievement Award; Sandra Brewster, who wins the $15,000 Artist Prize; and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, which receives the $50,000 TFVA Trust Fund Award to create a speaker series.

Finalists for the Artist Prize include Hazel Meyer and Camille Turner, who each receive $5,000.

Project support also went to the Bentway (for an installation by Public Visualization Studio), Mercer Union (for a collaboration with RAGGA NYC and local queer Caribbean artists), the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (for a new work by Nep Sidhu), and Whippersnapper Gallery (for the video screening component of 2018 projects with the Black Artist Union).

(press release, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts)

2018 Finalist: Camille Turner
Camille Turner is an explorer of race, space, home and belonging. Straddling media, social practice and performance art, her work has been seen throughout Canada and internationally.
http://camilleturner.com