Abbas Akhavan has been awarded The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts for 2025.
Awarded annually, the award recognizes a Canadian mid-career artist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in their body of work and who shows promise of outstanding artistic achievement in the years ahead.
This year’s selection committee includes Michelle LaVallee (Director, Indigenous Ways and Decolonization Department & Curatorial Initiatives, National Gallery of Canada), Crystal Mowry (Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery), Kitty Scott (Strategic Director, Shorefast / Fogo Island Arts), Pascal Grandmaison (Artist, laureate of the 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts), and Tak Pham (Curator, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, and laureate of the 2023 Hnatyshyn Foundation - Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency).
Visit the Hnatyshyn Foundation's website for more information.
