Devia Mehra, born in Winpeg, Canada, received 100,000 Canadian dollars, or $ 75,000, after choosing a winner of the Sobey Art Award for 2022, one of the “most valuable prizes for contemporary artists in the world”, with a total of 400 thousand Canadian dollars, or 300 thousand dollars.
“This is very pleasant at the present time, I have been working since I started to feel like I was working forever to win a prize like that,” said Divia Mehra, whose parents immigrated from India when she received the award at the Awards in Ottawa.
She added: “I wanted to paint the pictorial stories since I was a teenager and wanted to become a photographer artist. I read every version of Archie Double Digest.
Another favorite miracle caricature was that she” uses humor as a point of entry “to her work appropriately.
Angela Cassi, the temporary director and executive head of the Canadian National Exhibition, raised her hat to Devia Mehra and all the artists who participated. .
According to Art News, Devia Mehra’s works appeared on the cover of Canadian Art, and also appeared in a artistic documentary series from CBC in The Makeing.
Each of the twentieth artists in the long list will receive $ 10,000, ie $ 7500.
Sobby is the biggest award in Canada for young Canadian artists, and she was named after the Canadian businessman and art mosque, Frank H Soby, who founded the Sobi Art Foundation..
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