Canadian artist Shary Boyle has won the 2009 Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontartio. Boyle, a visual artist will be awarded on December 1, 2009 at AGO. Her work will be on exhibit during 2010.
The Iskowitz Prize was founded in 1985 by painter Gershon Iskowitz to raise the profile of visual arts in Canada. The prize comes with a $25,000 cheque.
Boyle has been rising in prominence since the late 1990s with her hand-animated projections. Her "live-drawing projected light shows" have shared stages with Feist, Peaches, Jens Lekman, Es and Christine Fellows. In 2008 her work was documented in Otherworldly Uprising.
“Not only is her work singularly bold and original,” says David Moos, the AGO’s curator of contemporary art, “but Shary Boyle is representative of a generation of Canadian artists who started showing in the underground galleries along West Queen West in the 1990s and are now starting to achieve international prominence. Shary has really been leading the pack, and we wanted to celebrate her unique contribution to Canadian art and acknowledge the doors she’s opening for a younger generation of Canadian artists.”
Shary Boyle is from Scarborough, Ontario. Ms. Boyle has been traveling with her art according to her agent Jessica Bradley.
