Mehra takes home $100,000 prize for her work on colonial cultural relationships and the return of colonial treasures to India
Divya Mehra, a Winnipeg artist whose research helped return a sacred sculpture to India, is the winner of the 2022 Sobey Art Award. Mehra, whose work comments on colonial cultural relationships and includes a version of the Taj Mahal rendered as a bouncy castle, was presented with the $100,000 prize in a ceremony in Ottawa Wednesday.
The Sobey Award, one of the largest art prizes in Canada, was founded in 2002 and is funded by the Sobey Art Foundation. It recognizes an emerging career with the finalists drawn from five regions across the country. It is organized by the National Gallery and judged by an independent jury of Canadian curators along with one international juror.
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