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The Canadian Art Foundation is a charitable organization that fosters and supports the visual arts in Canada. The foundation celebrates artists and their creativity with a nationwide educational program of events, lectures, competitions, publications and other initiatives.
For a comprehensive overview of Canadian Art Foundation programs, visit our programs overview page or click on the individual program links below.
Publications:
Canadian Art magazine
First Book of Canadian Art
Programs:
Gallery Hop
Reel Artists Film Festival
Art Talks: Canadian Art International Speaker Series
Room with a View
International Art Tours
Canadian Art New Contemporaries
Professional & Student Programs:
Anne Lind International
RBC® Painting Competition
Canadian Art Editorial Residency
Canadian Art Writing Prize
Youth Programs:
School Hop
Youth Arts Bursary Program
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
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Presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver May 29, 2010
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Nominations include Art Direction for an Entire Issue and Best Short Feature
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OCAD MFA student Sky Goodden has been selected to receive this year’s $7,000 national prize.
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at Canadian Art magazine and the Reel Artists Film Festival in this new Bravo! Arts & Minds TV show
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Walker Art Center curator visited Toronto from May 26 to 28
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A distinguished jury of curators, artists and gallery directors for the 12th annual prize has just been announced.
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The winner receives $3,000 and will have their story published in Canadian Art magazine
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Artist Jason McLean talks to high-school students as part of the 2009 Canadian Art School Hop in Toronto.
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In this exclusive footage from Reel Artists in Toronto, Newfoundland artist Colette Urban and Toronto director Katherine Knight join curator Barbara Fischer in conversation.
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Watch Tamra Davis, director of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, in conversation with producer David Koh and critic Sarah Milroy at the film’s gala Canadian premiere.
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In this video, Samuel Keller, head of the Beyeler Foundation, talks at the first screen homage to late Art Basel founder Ernst Beyeler.
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Students, don’t miss your chance to spend the summer with Canadian Art. Deadline is April 6, 2010.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
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Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
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On February 24, art-world glitterati came out to Koerner Hall in Toronto for the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Sold-out screenings were a hallmark of RAFF 2010.
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Straight from the Sundance Film Festival, Tamra Davis' moving documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child pays homage to her friend, the legendary artist, in his own words
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Two top documentaries on Swiss art will be followed by a special Q and A with Beyeler Foundation head Samuel Keller!
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Whimsical, fascinating film to premiere at the Reel Artists Film Festival
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World, North American and Canadian premieres to be introduced by specially invited artists, authors, curators and directors, including Susan Vogel, Joanne Tod and Barbara Fischer.
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This fall, Canadian Art’s young patron group visited the home and studio of Jason McLean, where they toured the artist’s personal collection.
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This year’s festival showcases 13 films on top art world figures including world, North American and Canadian premieres.
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Canadian Art launched its much-anticipated winter issue at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
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Places as finalist in competitive, first-ever best e-newsletter category
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On October 23, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries enjoyed a series of art talks and gallery tours at the Toronto International Art Fair.
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Over $250,000 raised in support of Canadian Art’s programs
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Four successful days of Queen West gallery tours for teenagers took place this October for the 9th Canadian Art School Hop.
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The winner and two runners-up of the 11th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition were announced October 7 in Montreal
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The Canadian Art Foundation is delighted to announce the winning projects for the 2009 Youth Arts Bursary
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On December 9, 2009 in Toronto, the secrets and symbolism of Canada’s most famous art group were brought to light in a lecture by bestselling author Ross King.
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El Anatsui's appearances for Art Talks, a Canadian Art Foundation lecture series, were one of the highlights of the fall 2009 art season.
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Meet art-world personalities face to face with Art Talks
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Olga Korper, the gallerist who hosted the first-ever Gallery Hop Gala in 1996, considers the progress of Canadian Art in our latest video update
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In the final instalment of our 25th anniversary video series, Matthew Teitelbaum succinctly reviews our shifting cultural geographies
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Videos from original publisher and others reveal key moments in our magazine’s history
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25th anniversary online interview series continues with iconic Canadian photographer
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One of Canada’s top artists kicks off Gallery Hop week with a 25th anniversary video interview on canadianart.ca
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Canadian Art’s newly redesigned format celebrates the connection between art, hope and the future
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Canadian Art’s new young-patron group has a successful first event, with membership expanding and more events on the way
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The Canadian Art Foundation invites you to join our exciting new Toronto-based patron group for young professionals. The New Contemporaries promotes and creates access to our vibrant visual art community through specially designed programs and events where you will meet and mingle with art world personalities and fellow members.
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The Canadian Art Foundation congratulates the 16 semifinalists for the 11th annual RBC Canadian Painting competition.
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We are delighted to announce that John Kissick’s essay “Elephants in the Room" has won an honorable mention at Canada’s National Magazine Awards.
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An artist mentor notes that “the pride that the community had for these youth and the pride the youth felt in themselves was a beautiful thing to witness and be a part of.”
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In this video talk exclusive to Canadian Art, Paris-based curator Vincent Honoré, best known for his previous work at Tate Modern, discusses the increasing importance of private art foundations in maintaining quality exhibition spaces in Europe.
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In celebration of Canadian Art’s 25th anniversary year, the Canadian Art Foundation is pleased to present Art Talks 2009, an enhanced series of lectures with leading art-world figures: artists, writers, curators, collectors and museum directors at institutions across the country.
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Canadian Art’s spring School Hop introduced Toronto-area public high school students to contemporary visual art in association with Images Festival in three days of tours through the historic 401 Richmond arts building in Toronto on April 2, 7 and 8, 2009.
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Canadian Art is delighted to announce an editorial design award of merit from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada in the category of portrait photography. The award is for the “Toronto Now” feature in the Winter 2007 issue of Canadian Art magazine.
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In a clip from the 2009 Reel Artists Flim Festival, director Terrence Turner speaks with Jane Perdue about his film Adele’s Wish, a story that reconstructs the legal battles to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings that were stolen by the Nazis in 1938.
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Canadian Art is delighted to partner with the Images Festival for our spring School Hop, which introduces Toronto-area public-high-school students to contemporary visual art through three days of artist-led tours, on April 2, 7 and 8, 2009.
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The Canadian Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Banff Centre and the Alberta College of Art and Design, proudly presented Polly Staple, director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery, as part of the Canadian Art International Lecture Series on October 24, 2008.
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On June 5, 2008, Toronto artist Shary Boyle spoke in Vancouver as part of the Canadian Art Foundation International Lecture Series, co-presented with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver. Now art lovers across the country can watch as Boyle discusses her unique practice in Canadian Art’s online videocast of the talk.
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In this free videocast of Katy Schimert’s May 2008 Canadian Art lecture, the New York artist discusses how Alice in Wonderland, war, migraines and mythology have influenced her artwork.
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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.
For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.
Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.
MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.
