Justin Apperley

Justin Apperley 2023 Longlist Artist Bio Justin Apperley is an artist based on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Justin holds an MFA at The Glasgow School of Art and a BDes from OCAD and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands....
Omar Reyna

Omar Reyna

Omar Reyna 2023 Longlist Artist Bio Omar Reyna Flores is a Mexican-Canadian artist that seeks the materialization of the work of art at a midpoint between research and the activity of making. He produces photographic base projects with a wide range of media. In his...

Jackie Olson

Jackie Olson 2023 Longlist Artist Bio Jackie Olson was born and raised in Dawson City and is a citizen of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. Trained as a painter, Jackie received a BFA from the Alberta College of Art in 1992, and has been creating and learning new...
Alainnah Whachell

Alainnah Whachell

Alainnah Whachell 2023 Longlist Artist Bio Alainnah Whachell (she/her) works within the discipline of sculpture, making tactile work that reveals an exuberant relationship to materiality and process. Major themes in her work are semiotics, fetish, time, desire and...