Marvin Luvualu Antonio among recipients of the inaugural Aimia | AGO Photography Prize Scholarship
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 4:00pm
Marvin Luvualu Antonio, Self Portrait #1, 2014
Photography student Marvin Luvualu Antonio has won a prestigious scholarship toward his fourth year of studies at OCAD U. His work will also be featured in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
From a field of 110 candidates, a jury selected three to receive $7,000 CDN each toward tuition for their final year of undergraduate study. Antonio is joined by Kristiane Church from the University of Manitoba and Paige Lindsay of Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts.
Antonio was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is of Angolan descent. His interdisciplinary work explores the topics of identity politics and the artist as subject.
Of this year’s winners the jury wrote, “We’re thrilled to be offering these inaugural scholarships to Kristiane, Marvin and Paige. Each of them demonstrates a restless experimentation and a unique view on the ways images are made and operate in the world. They have embraced photography as an expanded practice — their work includes performance, installation and participatory sculpture, as well as still and moving images. We’re pleased to support their final year of undergraduate study.”
Valued at more than $20,000 CDN, the scholarship program is intended for full-time students — Canadian or international — who are entering their final year of study toward a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in photography at one of eight participating post-secondary institutions.
An exhibition of their work will be displayed inside the Weston Family Learning Centre Community Gallery at the AGO beginning in November 2014. Their schools will each receive a $1,000 honorarium.
The national scholarship program is part of the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada's largest photography prize and one of the largest art and culture award programs in the world. The Aimia | AGO Award provides more than $85,000 CAD directly to artists working in photography each year. A short list will be announced on Aug. 13, 2014.
Photography student Marvin Luvualu Antonio has won a prestigious scholarship toward his fourth year of studies at OCAD U. His work will also be featured in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
From a field of 110 candidates, a jury selected three to receive $7,000 CDN each toward tuition for their final year of undergraduate study. Antonio is joined by Kristiane Church from the University of Manitoba and Paige Lindsay of Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts.
Antonio was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is of Angolan descent. His interdisciplinary work explores the topics of identity politics and the artist as subject.
Of this year’s winners the jury wrote, “We’re thrilled to be offering these inaugural scholarships to Kristiane, Marvin and Paige. Each of them demonstrates a restless experimentation and a unique view on the ways images are made and operate in the world. They have embraced photography as an expanded practice — their work includes performance, installation and participatory sculpture, as well as still and moving images. We’re pleased to support their final year of undergraduate study.”
Valued at more than $20,000 CDN, the scholarship program is intended for full-time students — Canadian or international — who are entering their final year of study toward a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in photography at one of eight participating post-secondary institutions.
An exhibition of their work will be displayed inside the Weston Family Learning Centre Community Gallery at the AGO beginning in November 2014. Their schools will each receive a $1,000 honorarium.
The national scholarship program is part of the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada's largest photography prize and one of the largest art and culture award programs in the world. The Aimia | AGO Award provides more than $85,000 CAD directly to artists working in photography each year. A short list will be announced on Aug. 13, 2014.