Bronfman Fellow Kim Waldron wins the Pierre-Ayot Award

Kim Waldron, MFA 13 and current Bronfman Fellow, is the recipient of the 2013 Pierre-Ayot Award for excellence in visual arts, a prize awarded by the City of Montreal in partnership with the Contemporary Art Galleries Association.

The Pierre-Ayot Award, which recognizes the excellence in visual arts creation in Montreal among professional artists aged 35 and under, is presented with a cash prize of $5,000. In addition, the winner receives a sum of $2,500 to organize a solo exhibition plus the City acquires an artwork for its collection from the recipient.

This year's jury, composed of Geneviève Goyer-Ouimet, director of the Centre d'exposition Circa and independent curator; Lesley Johnstone, curator at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Bernard Lamarche, curator of contemporary art the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Gilles Daigneault, director of the Molinari Foundation and art critic, and Pierre Blanchette, artist, said that they were captivated by the profound reflection on human behaviour, the status and the representation of the artist at work in Waldron's practice.