The Kingston Prize | Le Prix Kingston : Canada's Portrait Competition | Le prix du portrait du Canada by Jason Donville

The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition presents over 250 extraordinary contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, celebrating the finalists and winners of the first nine editions of one of the country's leading portrait competitions. Founded in 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, the Kingston Prize is a biennial event that has received 3,500 submissions since its inception. The finalists and winning portraits have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors to the related exhibitions, held across Canada in Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Alberta. Generously illustrated with full-colour reproductions of work by every finalist and winner since the inception of the prize, The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition offers a visual record of life in Canada and an inspiring range of approaches to portraiture by contemporary artists. Le Prix Kingston : Prix du portrait au Canada pr?sente plus de 250 portraits contemporains ordinaires, ouvres d'artistes canadiens, finalistes ou laur?ats des neuf premi?res ?ditions du plus prestigieux concours de ce genre du pays. Fond? en 2005 ? Kingston, en Ontario, le Prix Kingston est un ?v?nement biennal qui a attir? quelque 3 500 candidatures depuis sa cr?ation. Les ouvres des finalistes et des laur?ats, expos?es en Ontario, en Nouvelle-?cosse, au Nouveau-Brunswick, au Qu?bec et en Alberta, ont ?t? vues par des centaines de milliers de visiteurs. G?n?reusement illustr? gr?ce ? des reproductions couleur des ouvres de chaque finaliste et laur?at depuis la cr?ation du prix, Le Prix Kingston : Prix du portrait au Canada est un t?moignage visuel du travail, des loisirs, des v?tements et de la coiffure, bref, de la vie au Canada, mais aussi un panorama du style des portraitistes contemporains.
Binding: Hardback