Having changed its formula of rewarding a single winner each year, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) has just announced that it is awarding its 2023 Prize in Contemporary Art to five artists… all women. The winners are Maria Ezcurra, Anahita Norouzi, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Eve Tagny and Sara A. Tremblay.

The five artists will benefit from exceptional visibility during a collective exhibition, which will take place from October 26 to January 7 at the museum located on the Plains of Abraham, in addition to receiving an amount of $10,000 each. .

These winners were chosen by a jury made up of Sylvette Babin, director of the review Esse, Nuria Carton de Grammont, director of the SBC gallery, Ève De Garie-Lamanque, artistic director of the Jardins de Métis, curator Dominique Fontaine, the artist and artistic director of L’Oeil de Poisson Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, all accompanied by André Gilbert, curator of exhibitions at the MNBAQ who will sign the curatorship of their future exhibition.

Note that a second jury will meet next fall to determine which of the five exhibitors will be entitled to a monographic publication and the acquisition of one of their works for the MNBAQ collection.