Opening Reception: Sobey Art Award

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 6pm

A program of the 2017 Sobey Art Award

Rob Sobey, Chair of the Sobey Art Foundation, Barbara Fischer, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Harriet E. Walker, Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, and Marc Mayer, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, cordially invite you to the public opening of the 2017 Sobey Art Award Exhibition.

As part of the Sobey Art Award’s mandate to reflect and promote Canadian contemporary art, an exhibition of the shortlisted artists’ work is organized at a guest art institution in odd years and at the National Gallery of Canada in even years. In 2017, the work of the five shortlisted artists’ will be exhibited at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Organized the National Gallery of Canada and the Sobey Art Foundation in collaboration with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

Please visit the Sobey Art Award website for additional information about the Sobey Art Foundation, the award, the nominees and the jurors.