The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award is a monetary award given since 1971 by the Canada Council for the Arts to Canadian artists judged to be outstanding in their mid-careers.
Since 2005, the award is given to one recipient in each of the following seven fields: dance, inter-arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing. The award, worth Cdn$15,000 (CAD), was founded by Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton in 1967.
Until 2005, the award was given usually to 3-4 people in the fields of visual arts (including sculpture) and music, though not in both fields every year. Once, in 1986, it included a "dance teacher and historian", as well as a "critic and curator"; once, in 1971, it included a "weaver", and once, in 1981, it included a "harpsichord builder". In 2004, it was not awarded at all.
Laureates YearLaureates2017Marcus Youssef, Amanda Strong, Vladimir "7Starr" Laurore, Kevin Lau, Bruno Bouchard, Kevin Schmidt, Yara El-Ghadban2016Félix Beaulieu-Duchesneau, Duane Linklater, Louise Moyes, Chloe Charles, Stephen Thompson, Cedric Bomford, Karen Solie2015Judd Palmer, Myriam Yates, Ame Henderson, John Korsrud, M. Nourbe Philip, Mathieu Latulippe, Herve Desbois2014Olivier Choinière, Martin Messier, Kevin Anthony Ormsby, André Ristic, Alain Veilleux, Hajra Waheed, Robert Anthony Wright2013Lindsay McIntyre, Trevor Cole, Benjamin Wendel, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Julie Desrosiers, Sandra Laronde, Reece Terris2012Manon DePauw, Graeme Patterson, Sylvia Legris, Valérie Blass, Denis Lavalou, Brian Current, Nova Bhattacharya2011Nadine Sures, Diane Morin, Duncan Thornton, Osvaldo Jose Ramirez Castillo, Naomi Campbell, Paul Steenhuisen, Yvonne Chartrand2010Kristen Fahrig, Samer Najari, Philippe Gaulin, Tricia Middleton, Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf, Analia Llugdar, Randy Joynt2009Jackson 2bears, Adad Hannah, André Girard, Tammy Forsythe, Kirk MacDonald, Drew H. Taylor, 2boys.tv2008Susanna Hood, Diane Borsato, Shandi Mitchell, Michael Oesterle, Linda Brunelle, Geoffrey Farmer, Marlene Cookshaw2007Chanti Wadge, Daniel Barrow, Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Teresa Doyle, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, BGL, Jocelyn Boisvert2006Santee Smith, Robin Brass, Pascale Ferland, Bradley Turner, Larry Tremblay, Ron Terada, Peter Knudtson2005Janice Bowhay, Irene Laughlin, Rebecca Belmore, Jane Siberry, Lois Brown, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Lynn Coady2003Alcides Lanza, Jean Beaudet, Rosalie Favell2002John Wyre, Ian Carr-Harris, Francine Larivée2001René Lussier, Rodney Sharman, Yvon Cozic2000Nobuo Kubota, Eric Metcalfe, Sergio Barroso1999Robert Murray McConnell, Paul Dolden1998Judith Schwarz, Edward Poitras, Harry Freedman1997Almeta Speaks, Francis Dhomont, Evan Grant Penny1996Christian Calon, Melvin Charney, John Oswald, Jaan Poldaas1995Mowry Baden, John Burke, Roland Poulin1994Geneviève Cadieux, Robin Collyer, Alexina Louie1993Denis Gougeon, Jana Sterbak, Jeffrey Wall1992Eric Cameron, Jacques Hurtubise, Victor Vogel1991Geoffrey James, Robert McConnell, Joey Morgan1990Lynne Cohen, Rivka Golani, Michael A. Fernandes1989Irene Whittome, Peter Paul Koprowski1988Jocelyne Alloucherie, Norma Beecroft1987Paterson Ewen, John Greer, Ann Kipling, Gilles Mihalcean1986Yves Cousineau, Evergon, Harlan House, Ronald Moppett, Elke Town, Shirley Wiitasalo1985Joseph Fafard, Royden Rabinowitch, Pauline Vaillancourt1984Stephen Cruise, Jacqueline Fry, Harry Freedman, Arnaud Maggs1983Tom Graff, June Leaf, Françoise Sullivan, Gabriel Charpentier1982Louis de Niverville, Maryvonne Kendergi, Sam Tata1981Vera Frenkel, Betty Goodwin, Liz Magor1980Raffi Armenian, Douglas Bentham, Gilles Tremblay1979Patricia Beatty, Ronald Martin, Henry Saxe1978Iain Baxter&, Jacques Hétu, Claude Jutra1977Norma Beecroft, Murray Favro, Fernand Leduc, Mark Prent1976Micheline Coulombe, Mireille Lagacé, Jean McEwen, David Rabinowitch1975Graham Coughtry, Roger Matton, Walter Redinger, R. Murray Schafer1974Gershon Iskowitz, Bruce Mather, Claude Tousignant, John Weinzweig1973Jack Chambers, Roy Kiyooka, Edward Turner1972Guido Molinari, Marcel Barbeau, Ronald Bloore, Joyce Wieland, Micheline Beauchemin1971Bruno Bobak, Charles Daudelin, Reginald Holmes, John Meredith
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