Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, and is a member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation (Anishinaabe). He has a multidisciplinary and often collaborative practice that is centred around sculptural beadwork.
He has recently exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain and at the PHI Foundation, both in Montreal, and was featured in the group exhibition Young Elder at James Fuentes Gallery in New York City, and Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, at the Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.
Sobey Art Award
The Sobey Art Award, Canada’s pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian art, was created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
In addition to the $100,000 prize awarded to the winner of the Sobey Art Award, each of the five short listed artists are awarded $25,000 and $10,000 is awarded to each of the remaining long listed artists.
Since its inception, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia organized and administered the Sobey Art Award and its accompanying exhibition. In 2016, the Sobey Art Foundation entered into a partnership with the National Gallery of Canada, which organizes and circulates the exhibition.
