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Take a closer look at our growing collection of original curatorial projects and annual exhibitions of prize-winning works from the Canadian Art Inspiration Student Challenge.

The 2025 Canadian Student Art inspiration Challenge

Celebrating Canada’s Future Artists

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Composite image of an aerial photograph of a river (left) and a surreal painting of blended city and mountain landscape (right).

The 2024 Canadian Student Art inspiration Challenge

Celebrating Canada’s Future Artists

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Composite of two paintings. LEFT: portrait of two youg women in front of water. RIGHT: portrait of a woman with a young child.

The 2023 Canadian Student Art inspiration Challenge

Celebrating Canada’s Future Artists

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Composite image of two paintings. Left: a winter landscape at night with glowing Northern Lights in the sky. Right: An abstract scene of several glowing orbs in the sky.

The 2022 Canadian Art Inspiration Student Challenge

Celebrating Canada’s Future Artists

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Photograph of a chair with a yellow seat and woven back in front of a dark wall, accompanied by a small rug, plant, and brocade drape.

Autumn Tigers

An Exhibition by Karen Tam Celebrating Chinese Culture in British Columbia

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Split image: left shows a black-and-white close-up of a face with small tattoos and words like “defy,” “create,” and “reinvent”; right shows a painted portrait of a woman in a red dress sitting against a landscape background.

The 2021 Canadian Student Art inspiration Challenge

Celebrating Canada’s Future Artists

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Dark blue folded, bent, and creased plates of metal supported by two red cedar posts, installed on a shore with a lake visible behind.

Mastery in Metal

Robert Murray and the Art of Industrial Fabrication

Curated by Jonathan D. Lippincott

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Black-and-white photo of a man sitting outdoors, holding a cigarette, with a clock, books, flowers, and a 1912 calendar on the wall behind him.

Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy

How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community

Curated by Faith Moosang

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Collaged image of three silver coins, all designed by Alex Colville, arranged in a line on a black background. In the centre is the 1-dollar coin featuring a flying Canada goose. On the left is the 10-cent coin featuring a mackerel and on the right is the 25-cent coin featuring a bobcat.

The Measure of Nature: Alex Colville’s Centennial Coins

In Partnership with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Billie Magazine

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Painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister of waves crashing into a rocky coastline under a cloudy sky.

Artist and Abolitionist

The Ground-breaking Black Canadian Painter Edward Mitchell Bannister

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Illustration by Shuvinai Ashoona showing a large globe, in the upper left, depicting an aerial view of the community of Kinngait, complete with wildlife. The globe is supported by two human legs, which are encircled by the tentacles of an octopus, while its arms are composed of strings of globes with clawed hands. On the far right-side of the drawing, a traditionally dressed Inuk presents a drawing of a hunter holding a rifle and kneeling behind a stretched canvas.

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

In Partnership with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

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Abstract collage by Michael Snow depicting five floating female nudes in various poses. Their bodies, rendered in red, blue, white, and various ochres, overlap with each other and with abstract forms within an ambiguous space.

Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962

In Partnership with the Art Gallery of Hamilton

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Landscape painting by Homer Watson of a creek below a tall mountain, shadowed by approaching storm clouds.

Close to Home: Homer Watson’s Canadian Landscape PaintingCurated by Brian Foss

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Illustration by Shuvinai Ashoona of a blond-haired man in a green parka standing with his arms raised and his mouth open in alarm as fantastical orange and grey octopi grab his legs. Below him, an oblivious photographer focuses his lens on small dancing creatures before him.

Shuvinai Ashoona: Re-Imagining the WorldCurated by Nancy G. Campbell

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Abstract painting by Harold Town made up of black, white, blue, and red framing elements around a solid yellow centre.

Harold Town: Art of EvolutionCurated by Gerta Moray

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Painting by William Kurelek of a row of farm buildings on the side of a dirt road. In front of a house in the centre, a family stands together while a man takes their photo. Fields and crops behind the buildings stretch to the horizon and blue sky which is punctuated by a white mushroom cloud. In the foreground, across the road, a Christ figure is crucified on a dead tree and is surrounded by ravenous dogs.

William Kurelek’s Art of Rapture and ReminiscenceCurated by Andrew Kear

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Painting by Prudence Heward of two women seated in a crowd at the theatre. They are seen from behind, hair tied up and dressed in evening gowns, and one is looking at a paper in her right hand.

Prudence Heward’s Modern WomenCurated by Julia Skelly

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Abstract painting by Paul-Émile Borduas consisting of thick vertical strokes of red and green paint appearing to float on top of a brown and blue background.

Paul-Émile Borduas’s Abstract RevolutionCurated by François-Marc Gagnon

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Painting by Norval Morrisseau of two figures in sexual embrace, the female with breasts laying down with the male on top. The figures are drawn with thick black outlines and surrounded by a circular shape with areas of patterns painted in bright colours.

Norval Morrisseau’s Spiritual VisionCurated by Carmen Robertson

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Painting by Alex Colville of a nude woman standing by a window in an empty room with blue walls. She is looking back at the torso of a tailor's dummy, also nude, which is large in the frame.

Alex Colville: An Everyday OrderCurated by Ray Cronin

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Illustration by Pitseolak Ashoona of four Inuit women facing forward and wearing traditional parkas. In the centre, in a yellow parka, is a kneeling woman giving birth while another woman holds her up from behind.

Shared History: The Drawings of Pitseolak AshoonaCurated by Christine Lalonde

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Painting by Jack Chambers of highway lanes surrounded by buildings and green fields under a large blue sky filled with fluffy clouds. The perspective is slightly from above and the horizon line is tilted.

Art of Perception: Jack Chambers’s Inner VisionCurated by Mark A. Cheetham

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Fire at the Paper Mill in Lorette, painting by Zacharie Vincent

Zacharie Vincent’s Indigenous LegacyCurated by Louise Vigneault

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Mural by Françoise Sullivan made of various colours of granite. Jagged, interlocking forms with darker inlaid veins come together to form a mountain range.

Constant Evolution: The Work of Françoise SullivanCurated by Annie Gérin

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Abstract painting by Bertram Brooker of a semi-human figure made of faceted, multicoloured shapes hurling itself across the canvas in a robotic way. In the background are horizontal shapes stacked like pyramids and rays of light.

Cosmic Consciousness: The Art of Bertram BrookerCurated by James King

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Mixed media piece by Joyce Wieland of stacks of multicoloured plastic sleeves encasing various images and small objects ranging from snapshots and mementos to newspaper clippings about the Vietnam War.

Joyce Wieland: Crafting a New Political ArtCurated by Johanne Sloan

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Minimalist abstract painting by Yves Gaucher with a solid red background. Short, thin horizontal lines, painted in blue and green, are arranged into three columns near the middle of the piece and appear in stacked pairs except for two green lines nearest to the centre. Thicker green lines appear on the top and bottom edges of the piece.

Yves Gaucher: Montreal Abstraction Finds an EdgeCurated by Roald Nasgaard

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Watercolour painting by Paraskeva Clark of several items haphazardly arranged on a piece of furniture including song books, a hat with a green tassel and a red star on the front, and a red flag featuring a bold graphic of three working men and the initials C.N.T. across the top.

Paraskeva Clark: A Russian Émigré’s Eye on CanadaCurated by Christine Boyanoski

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Painting by Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald of a small white pitcher and pencil sitting on a windowsill. The window looks down into a snowy yard with bare trees and neighbouring homes beyond a wooden fence. A forest is seen in the distance.

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: Quintessential Western CanadaCurated by Michael Parke-Taylor

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Mixed-media artwork by Robert Houle consisting of deep purple paper with a flap of painted blue paper covering the top third, meant to resemble a medicine bag. On the flap is a thick horizontal line of blue paint, partially layered with yellow paint, from which hangs a row of porcupine quills. On the purple paper, there are two groups of painted lines: one group of four diagonal lines in bright orange and another group of four vertical lines in dark red.

Robert Houle: Making Art to Decolonize HistoryCurated by Shirley Madill

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Abstract painting by Jock Macdonald with large areas of blue and black punctuated by smaller areas of red, yellow, and light blue.

Jock Macdonald: The Search for New Forms of BeautyCurated by Joyce Zemans

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Pop art-style painting by Greg Curnoe of a figure, mid-stride, facing left. Areas are painted in solid colours (bright yellow, orange, red, blue, and black) except for the Tweed coat the figure is wearing which is a busy pattern made with small strokes of blue, green, and yellow. The text “LOVE DOESN’T LAST VERY LONG BUT THINKING ABOUT IT DOES” appears across the top of the frame and, lower down, "CHRIST THE BLACKHAWKS," "BLUE OF THE ZENITH," and "MARY WORTH."

Personal, Local, and National: Greg Curnoe’s VisionCurated by Judith Rodger

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Impressionist-style painting by Helen McNicoll of a young blonde girl wearing a white dress. She is standing in the middle of a field with tall grasses painted in yellows and light greens and dotted with small purple flowers. She is holding a large metal bucket and three chickens follow behind her. Small farm buildings and fences are seen in the top left of the frame.

Helen McNicoll’s Subversive FemininityCurated by Samantha Burton

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Painting with large, visible brushstrokes by Tom Thomson depicting a sunset over lake. Dark hills sit on the low horizon line while the sky above is large and vibrant, featuring acid yellow and green peeking out between crimson clouds. The colours are reflected in the water.

Natural Phenomenon: Tom Thomson’s Meteoric CareerCurated by David P. Silcox

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Black and white photograph of a woman seated at a table and holding up a folder full of photos of models in costumes and masks, a typed letter titled "The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant," and a certificate.

General Idea: 13 Works That Changed Our Definition of ArtCurated by Sarah E.K. Smith

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Abstract painting by Oscar Cahén with a red background and a central motif of a barbed, upward-thrusting tall shape, crowned with crescents and several round shapes in shades of green.

Double Vision: The Twin Talents of Oscar CahénCurated by Jaleen Grove

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Hand-painted composite photograph by William Notman of a large crowd socializing in an indoor skating rink, all dressed in elaborate costumes. Flags, chandeliers, and tree garlands hang from the rafters.

William Notman’s Photographic InventionsCurated by Sarah Parsons

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