Student Awards: Vancouver Biennale “Art Attack” Award of Excellence in Visual Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
(L-R) Barrie Mowatt, Gloria Lee, Jen Cheon, Kirsten Larsen, Matthew N. M. Bordeleau, Nicole Brie, and Murray Nichol at an ECUAD reception on July 8, 2025, honouring the 2025 Vancouver Biennale “Art Attack” Award of Excellence in Visual Art recipients. (Photo credit: Taylor Assion/ECUAD)
2025
The Award is shared between two collectives:
- Nicole Cruz Bie (B.F.A.) + Matthew N. M. Bordeleau (B.Des.), red horse oscillating in the undercurrent (mixed media installation)
- Jen Cheon (B.F.A.) + Gloria Lee (B.F.A.), Incense of You (mixed media installation)
Honorable Mention: Laura Clair Perry (B.F.A.), Them Bones
2024
Kevin Orlosky, Visualizations of American Sign Language (sculpture) [IG @orlofskystudio]
Having established the International Artist Residency Program (where we bring contemporary artists—with an emphasis on emerging talent—to Vancouver), the Vancouver Biennale realizes the need to further nurture artists at pivotal points in their creative development. Wishing to honour the founder of the Vancouver “Art Attack” Award, Kirsten Larsen, and recognize her passionate support of community arts programming, the Biennale establishes a new fund at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) to commemorate the Award’s tenth anniversary and ECUAD’s centennial. The Award is renamed the Vancouver Biennale “Art Attack” Award of Excellence in Visual Art. Open to visual art students in undergraduate and graduate programs, the annual award recipient will be selected based on work in the ECUAD’s Degree Exhibition and will be chosen by the Degree Exhibition jury.
2023
Shiva Khaef Panah, Kooch در کوچ dar در کوچ Kooch
2022
Taylor Shaw, Walang Pamagat (concrete, plastic and glass)
2021
Sydney Frances Pascal, kwékwa7 skicz7a wi kwimtscen (deer skin, photo transfer and rope) [IG @sydney.f.pascal]
2020
Mirela Jade Malimban [@blackheronprints], Entwined (lithograph and entisol transfer on hand-cut paper)
2019
Zoe Cire, Prairie Lilly (oil painting with handmade beads on tarp) [IG @zoeanncardinalcire]
2018
ECUAD alum Ola Volo designs the inaugural award certificate and serves on the inaugural Vancouver “Art Attack” Award jury.
The Award’s first recipient is Simon Hauck, rarely does it happen on your terms (sculpture) [IG @simon_hauck]
2015
Kirsten Larsen works with Eva Bouchard, former Manager of Major Gifts + Fund Development at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD), to establish the Vancouver “Art Attack” Award for Excellence in Visual Art.