TORONTO - Toronto artist Shary Boyle, who has projected her drawings onstage at concerts for musicians including Feist and Peaches, has won this year's $25,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize.
The multidisciplinary artist will receive the honour, established 20 years ago by the late by Canadian painter Gershon Iskowitz, at a reception on Dec. 1.
Boyle's work, which has been exhibited around the world and also includes paintings and sculptures, will go on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario next year.
Boyle became recognized for what she calls "live-drawing projected light shows" in the late 1990s. Other musicians she's done them for include Jens Lekman and Christine Fellows.
Jury members for the prize called her work "singularly bold and original."
The prize is sponsored by the AGO and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation. A commemorative book celebrating its 20th anniversary will be released on Dec. 1 at the AGO.
Francoise Sullivan of Montreal won the prize last year and will see his work be exhibited at the AGO in February.
The AGO is also home to the archives of Iskowitz, who died in 1988.
