The Kingston Prize Le Prix Kingston: Canada's Portrait Competition Le Prix Du Portrait Du Canada

The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition presents over 250 extraordinary contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, celebrating the finalists and winners of the first nine editions of one of the country's leading portrait competitions.

Founded in 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, the Kingston Prize is a biennial event that has received 3,500 submissions since its inception. The finalists and winning portraits have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors to the related exhibitions, held across Canada in Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Alberta.

Generously illustrated with full-colour reproductions of work by every finalist and winner since the inception of the prize, The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition offers a visual record of life in Canada and an inspiring range of approaches to portraiture by contemporary artists.

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Fond?en 2005 ?Kingston, en Ontario, le Prix Kingston est un 憝幯ement biennal qui a attir?quelque 3 500 candidatures depuis sa cr嶧tion. Les oeuvres des finalistes et des laur嶧ts, expos嶪s en Ontario, en Nouvelle-丱osse, au Nouveau-Brunswick, au Qu嶵ec et en Alberta, ont 彋?vues par des centaines de milliers de visiteurs.

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