Lorna Bauer awarded the 2024 Gattuso Prize
The annual Gattuso Prize is awarded to one early-career CONTACT Festival artist whose work in the prior year’s Festival demonstrates promise and dedication to a rigorous lens-based practice. The award comprises a $5,000 prize and a future project with the festival.
Bauer’s exhibition Sunday is Violet at Galerie Nicholas Robert Toronto was part of the Core Program in the 2024 Festival.
Lorna Bauer utilizes photography and sculpture to examine human’s relationships to their surroundings, often considered site related responding to a specific place and context. Bauer lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal and her work has been featured in exhibitions at the MusĂ©e d’art contemporain de MontrĂ©al, the Darling Foundry, Franz Kaka, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery among others. She has been artist-in-residence at Despina Rio de Janeiro, The RĂ©collets Paris, the Quebec-New York Residency, Banff Centre and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her works are held in public and private collections, notably the MusĂ©e d’art contemporain de MontrĂ©al and the MusĂ©e national des beaux-arts du QuĂ©bec. Bauer was recently awarded the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for contemporary Canadian photography, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award representing Quebec. Bauer is represented by Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto and Montreal.
The Gattuso Prize formerly acknowledged an outstanding artist in the Juried Call Exhibition program of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Juried Call Exhibitions were selected to be part of the Festival through a submission process and are independently organized by artists, venues, and organizations across the city.
CONTACT gratefully acknowledges the generous support and contributions of La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso. The Foundation demonstrates strong leadership and influences innovation across all charitable sectors in Canada including healthcare, culture and the arts.
Past Winners
2023
Catherine Blackburn
2022
Kablusiak
2021
Anthony Gebrehiwot, From Boys to Men: The Road to Healing, Doris McCarthy Gallery – Instructional Centre Vitrines
2020
Aaron Jones, Closed Fist, Open Palm, Zalucky Contemporary
2019
Sophie Sabet, I Almost Didn’t Feel You Leave, Bradley Museum
2018
Shadi Harouni and Elise Rasmussen, With an instinct for justice, Doris McCarthy Gallery
2017
Sandra Brewster, It’s all a blur…, Georgia Scherman Projects
2016
Lee Henderson, Never Letting Us Take Breath, Zalucky Contemporary
2015
Jimmy Limit, Surplus, Clint Roenisch Gallery
2014
Nadia Belerique, Have You Seen This Man, Daniel Faria Gallery
2013
Marlene Creates, selected works from 30 years, 1982-2012, Paul Petro Contemporary Art
2012
Lise Beaudry, Sur la glace / Walking on Ice, Art Gallery Of Mississauga
2011
Andrew Wright, CORONAE, Peak Gallery