The Kingston Prize Le Prix Kingston

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.

Le Prix Kingston: Prix du portrait au Canada presente plus de 250 portraits contemporains ordinaires, oeuvres d'artistes canadiens, finalistes ou laureats des neuf premieres editions du plus prestigieux concours de ce genre du pays.

Fonde en 2005 a Kingston, en Ontario, le Prix Kingston est un evenement biennal qui a attire quelque 3 500 candidatures depuis sa creation. Les oeuvres des finalistes et des laureats, exposees en Ontario, en Nouvelle-Ecosse, au Nouveau-Brunswick, au Quebec et en Alberta, ont ete vues par des centaines de milliers de visiteurs.

Genereusement illustre grace a des reproductions couleur des oeuvres de chaque finaliste et laureat depuis la creation du prix, Le Prix Kingston: Prix du portrait au Canada est un temoignage visuel du travail, des loisirs, des vetements et de la coiffure, bref, de la vie au Canada, mais aussi un panorama du style des portraitistes contemporains.