RBC Canadian Painting Competition

1999

• Winner: Jennifer Walton
• Runner-up: Jeff Willmore

  Jury

• Bill Huffman
• James Patten

  2000

• Winner: Matthew Carver
• Runner-up: Catherine Beaudette

  Jury

• Andrea Bolley
• Gary Michael Dault
• Bill Huffman
• David P. Solcox
• Carl Skelton

2001

Finalists

Western

• Brigitte Dion
• Kristina Kudryk
• Sharron Labatt
• Gwenessa Lam
• Ben Reeves

  Central

• Mona Shahid
• Patrice Stanley
• Marian Wihak
• Regina Williams
• Shaan Syed

  Eastern

• Reneé Duval
• Eric Le Ménédeu
• Joanne Poirier
• Fionnuala Reynolds
• Joseph Siddiqi

  Jury

Western

• Robin Laurence
• Tracey Lawrence
• Christina Ritchie

  Central

• Gillian MacKay
• Aaron Milrad
• Pari Nadimi

  Eastern

• Alex Colville
• Jerry Ferguson
• Jan Peacock

  2002

Finalists

Western

• Chris Bennet
• Brigitte Dion
• Holger Kalberg
• Séamus Kealy
• Bernadette Phan

  Central

• Melissa Doherty
• Danny Hussey
• JJ Lee
• Mary McKenzie
• Kelly Palmer

  Eastern

• Carmelo Blandino
• Dennis Eksted
• Camille Girard-Ruel
• Asa Johnna Westin

  Jury

Western

• Chris Cran
• Catherine Crowston
• Mary Scott

  Central

• Eliza Griffiths
• Leo Kamen
• Kitty Scott

  Eastern

• Stéphane Aquin
• Roger Bellemare
• Janet Werner

  2003

Finalists

Western

• Chris Dorosz
• July Duschenes
• Cliff Eyland
• Val Nelson
• Jeff Tutt

  Central

• Martin Bennett
• Jordan Broadworth
• Chris Rogers
• Shaan Syed
• Pearl Van Geest

  Eastern

• Martin Brouillette
• Peter Dykhuis
• Caroline Gagnon
• Robert Truszkowski
• Marilyn McAvoy

  Jury

Western

• Bob Boyer
• Wanda Koop
• Paul Kuhn

  Central

• Robin Metcalfe
• Sarah Milroy
• Kim Moodie
• Joanne Tod

  Eastern

• Jocelyne Aumon
• Ingrid Jenkner
• Jeffrey Spalding

2004

Finalists

Western

• Monique Blom
• John Eisler
• Mark Mullin
• Jim Park
• Brad Phillips

  Central

• Andrew Morrow
• Soheila Esfahani
• Alexander Irving
• Dionne Simpson
• Shaan Syed

  Eastern

• Adele Chong
• Jennifer Dorner
• Patrick Lundeen
• Andrea Mortson
• Laurel Smith

  Jury

Western

• Kent Archer, director and curator, Kenderdine Art Gallery Saskatoon, SK
• Riko Nakasone
• Jane Ash Poitras

  Central

• Jan Allen
• Will Gorlitz
• Olga Korper

  Eastern

• Pierre Dorion
• Gemey Kelly
• Gordon Laurin

  2005

Finalists

Western

• Chris Millar
• Matthew Brown
• Holger Kalberg
• Krisdy Shindler
• Étienne Zack

  Central

• Chris Down
• Jason Gringler
• Meghan McKnight
• Kristine Moran
• Nick Ostoff

  Eastern

• Paul Berhardt
• Yang Hong
• Chris Kline
• Wil Murray
• Mathew Reichertz

  Jury

Western

• Lisa Baldissera
• Yves Trépanier
• Landon MacKenzie

  Central

• Shirley Madill
• Linda Book
• Ben Reeves

  Eastern

• Marc Mayer
• René Blouin
• Alex Livingston

  2006

Finalists

Western

• Abbas Akhavan
• Matthew Brown
• Dave & Jenn
• Holger Kalberg
• Mélanie Rocan Honourable mention

  Central

• Adam Brickell
• Kim Dorland
• Martin Golland
• Dax Morrison
• Fançois Xavier Saint-Pierre

  Eastern

• Nicolas Grenier
• Dil Hildebrand
• Jonathan Johnson
• Daniel Langevin
• Luce Meunier

  Jury

Western

• Wayne Baerwaldt
• Eleanor Bond
• Andy Sylvester

  Central

• John Brown
• Barbara Fischer
• Patrizia Libralato

  Eastern

• Shauna McCabe
• Lilian Rodriguez
• Eric Simon

2007

Finalists

Western

• Eli Bornowsky
• Arabella Campbell
• Angus Ferguson
• Saun Morin
• Chris Millar

  Central

• Melanie Authier
• Kim Dorland
• Jennifer Lefort
• Anders Oinonen
• Ben Pinkney

  Eastern

• Elizabeth Grant
• Nam Nguyen
• Aleksandra Rdest
• Mélanie Rocan
• Justin Stephens

  Jury

Western

• Paul Butler
• Ron Moppett
• Reid Sheir

  Central

• John Hartman
• Ben Portis
• Mary Sue Rankin

  Eastern

• Peter Dykhuis
• Pierre-François Ouelette
• Michele Thériault

  2008

Finalists

Western

• Eli Bornowsky
• Andrew Dadson
• Jeremy Hof
• Collin Johanson
• Lorenzo Pepito

  Central

• Martin Golland
• Sarah Jane Gorliz
• Amanda Reeves
• Drew Simpson
• Emmy Skensved

  Eastern

• Patrick Howlett
• Rick Leong
• Wil Murray
• Jeanie Riddle
• Justin Stephens

  Jury

Western

• Neil Campbell
• Monte Clarke
• Kitty Scott

  Central

• Jessica Bradley
• James Lahey
• David Liss

  Eastern

• James Baird
• Loise Déry
• Pierre Dorion

  2009

Finalists

Western Canada

• Noah Becker – Victoria
• Brenda Draney – Vancouver, BC for Aim is Important
• Dave & Jenn – Calgary
• Ryan Peter – Vancouver
• Joseph Tisiga – Whitehorse

  Central Canada

• Sarah Cale – Toronto
• Janice Colbert – Toronto
• Scott Everingham – Toronto
• Martin Golland – Toronto, ON for Residential Night Vulture
• Sasha Pierce – Toronto, ON Brown

  Eastern Canada

• Julie Beugin – Montreal
• Anthony Burnham – Montreal
• Pierre Durette – Montreal
• Daniel Hutchinson – Halifax
• Nathalie Thibault – Quebec

  Jury

Western

• Ken Lum, Artist, Vancouver
• Nancy Tousley, Senior Art Writer, Calgary Herald
• Kathleen Ritter, Assistant Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery

  Central

• Benjamin Diaz, Director, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto
• Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada
• John Kissick, Artist & Director, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph

  Eastern

• Victoria Page, Owner, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
• Nathalie de Blois, Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
• Etienne Zack, Artist, Montreal

  2010

Finalists

Western

• Eli Bornowsky – Vancouver
• Aaron Carpenter – Vancouver
• Megan Hepburn – Vancouver
• Laura Piasta – Coquitlam
• Melanie Rocan – Winnipeg

  Central

• Sarah Cale – Toronto
• Scott Everingham – Toronto
• Jon Reed – Toronto, ON for Stato di Impotenza
• Mark Stebbins – Toronto, ON for ''Data Centers'
• Beth Stuart – Toronto

  Eastern

• Hugo Bergeron – Montreal
• Scott Bertram – Halifax
• Benjamin Klein – Montreal
• Alexis Lavoie – Montreal, QC for Restants
• Rick Leong – Montreal

  Jury

Western

• Renée Van Halm, Vancouver artist
• Jennifer Papararo, curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
• Mary Reid, curator of contemporary art and photography at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

  Central

• Joe Friday, Ottawa collector
• Joanne Tod, Toronto artist
• Michael Gibson, director of Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON

  Eastern

• Mathew Reichertz, artist, Halifax
• Simon Blais, owner Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
• Paulette Gagnon, director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

  2011

Finalists

Western Canada

• Rebecca Brewer – Vancouver, BC for Beuys painting
• Thomas Chisholm – Victoria, BC
• Bitsy Knox – Vancouver, BC
• Deirdre McAdams – Vancouver, BC for Blotto
• Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline – Winnipeg, MB

  Central Canada

• Jessica Groome – Guelph, ON
• Tristram Lansdowne – Toronto, ON
• Daniel Hutchinson – Toronto, ON
• Kim Neudorf – London, ON
• Beth Stuart – Toronto, ON for 02, from Doppelbanger series

  Eastern Canada

• Julie Trudel – Montreal, PQ
• Amy Schissel – Gatineau, PQ
• Jared Peters – Saint John, NB
• Ianick Raymond – Montreal, PQ
• Adam Gunn – Halifax, NS

  Jury

Western

• Elizabeth McIntosh, Senior Artist and Associate Professor, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
• Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• Diana Sherlock, Curator & Visual Arts Writer, Calgary

  Central

• Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Christopher Cutts, Director, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
• Patrick Howlett, Senior Artist, London

  Eastern

• Donald Browne, Director, Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal
• Suzanne Funnell, Associate Professor, NSCAD University, Halifax
• Francois LeTourneux, Associate Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

  2012

Finalists

• Betino Assa – Montreal, QC
• Ahbyah Baker – Vancouver
• Thomas Chisholm – Victoria
• Jordy Hamilton – Vancouver
• Andrea Kastner – Edmonton
• Katie Lyle – Vancouver, BC for White Night

  Central

• Colin Muir Dorward – Ottawa
• Aleksander Hardashnakov – Toronto
• David Hucal – Guelph
• Vanessa Maltese – Toronto, ON for Balaclava
• Jenna Faye Powell.

  Eastern

• Betino Assa – Montreal for Gathering in the forest, 12 am
• Philip Delisle
• Nicolas Rancellucci
• Corri-Lynn Tetz
• Julie Trudel.

  Jury

• Sandra Meigs - Senior Artist and Professor of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria
• Mark Mullin - Senior Artist, Calgary
• Nigel Prince, executive director of the in Vancouver

• Clint Roenisch - Founder, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
• Jonathan Shaughnessy – associate curator, contemporary art at the
• Monica Tap - Senior Artist and Associate Professor, University of Guelph, Guelph

• Roger Bellemare - Gallery Director, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal
• Robin Metcalfe - Director and Curator, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax
• Janet Werner - Senior Artist, Montreal

  2013

Finalists

Western Canada

• Jessica Bell – Vancouver
• Colleen Heslin – Vancouver for Almost young, wild and free, 2013
• Brian Kokoska – Vancouver/New York
• Rachelle Sawatsky – Vancouver/Los Angeles
• Sean Weisgerber – Saskatoon

  Central Canada

• Jennifer Carvalho – Toronto
• Colin Muir Dorward – Ottawa, ON for Labyrinthineon, 2012
• Scott Everingham – Toronto
• Laura Findlay – Guelph, Ont.
• Neil Harrison – Toronto, ON for Fig.13 Knowledge, 2013

  Eastern Canada

• Brendan Flanagan – Montreal
• Adam Gunn – Halifax
• Nathaniel Hurtubise – Montreal
• Jessica Mensch – Montreal/Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Aaron Weldon – Halifax

  Jury

Western Canada

• Ian Wallace - Senior Artist, Vancouver
• Holger Kalberg - Artist and Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• Ryan Doherty - Curator, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

  Central Canada

• Sarah Milroy - Art critic, Toronto
• Daniel Faria - Gallery Director, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
• Carol Wainio - Artist and Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

  Eastern Canada

• Stéphane Aquin – curator of contemporary art Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
• Pan Wendt – curator Confederation Centre Art Gallery
• Isa Tousignant – writer and editor

  2014

Finalists

Western Canada

• Ashleigh Bartlett – Calgary, AB for Ballet Duo
• Ufuk Gueray - Winnipeg, MB for Market, 2014 B
• Tiziana La Melia – Vancouver, BC for Hanging on to the part, 2014
• Laura Piasta – Vancouver, BC
• Robert Taite – Winnipeg, MB

  Central Canada

• Jennifer Carvalho – Toronto, ON
• Wallis Cheung – Toronto, ON
• James Gardner – Toronto, ON
• Gavin Lynch – Ottawa, ON\
• Megan McCabe – Toronto, ON

  Eastern Canada

• Carly Butler – Halifax, NS
• Teto Elsiddique – Halifax, NS
• Karine Fréchette – Montreal, QC
• Nicolas Lachance – Montreal, QC index no. 3 The book of Empathy, 2014
• Elysanne Tremblay – Montreal, QC

  Jury

West

• Naomi Potter, Director and Curator, Esker Foundation, Calgary
• Melanie O'Brian, Director, SFU Galleries, Burnaby
• Catriona Jeffries, Owner and Director, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

  Central

• Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
• Robert Houle, Senior Artist, Toronto
• Will Kucey, Owner and Director, LE Gallery, Toronto

  East

• Anthony Burnham, Artist, Montreal
• Mark Lanctôt, Curator, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
• Deborah Carver, Owner and Director, Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery, Halifax

  2015

Finalists

Western

• Tristan Unrau – Vancouver, BC
• Robert Taite – Winnipeg, MB
• Russell Leng – Vancouver, BC
• Megan Hepburn – Vancouver, BC
• Simon deBrée – Vancouver, BC/Stockholm, Sweden

  Central

• Jessica Bell - Ottawa, ON
• Patrick Cruz – Guelph for Time allergy, 2015
• Hanna Hur - Toronto, ON/Los Angeles, CA
• Caroline Larsen - Toronto, ON
• Claire Scherzinger – Toronto, ON for My Contribution To The Many Paintings Of Pots And Plants, 2015

  Eastern

• Andrew Maize - Lunenberg, NS
• John Player - Montreal, QC
• Cindy Phenix - Montreal, QC
• Paul Hardy - Montreal QC
• Hangama Amiri – Halifax, NS Island of Dreams, 2015 Halifax, NS

  Jury

East

• Hugues Charbonneau – Director, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal
• Melanie Colosimo – Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax
• John Zeppetelli – Director & Chief Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

  Central

• Iga Janik – Curator, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge
• Georgiana Uhlyarik - Associate Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Jinny Yu – Artist & Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

  West

• Eli Bornowsky – Artist, RBC Canadian Painting Competition Finalist, Vancouver
• Garry Neil Kennedy – Senior Artist, Vancouver
• Lisa Kehler – Director, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg

  2016

Finalists

Western

• Cameron Forbes – Saskatoon, SK for Maritime Plaza Hotel, Window Set 2, 2016
• Brian Hunter – Winnipeg, MB for Two empty trays mounted vertically, 2015
• Brian Kokoska – Vancouver, BC/New York, NY for Dancing to the Silence of your Heartbeat, 2016
• M.E. Sparks – Vancouver, BC for Afterimage, 2016
• Angela Teng – Vancouver, BC for Jump Shot, 2016

  Central

• Wallis Cheung – Toronto, ON for Frame as void, 2016
• Alex Fischer – Toronto, ON Pet, for Casper and Hesperi, 2016
• Stephanie Hier – Toronto, ON for Break like the wind, 2015
• Hanna Hur – Los Angeles, CA for The Fool, 2016
• Keita Morimoto – Toronto, ON for Aya in Tokyo, 2015

  Eastern

• Nika Fontaine – Berlin, DE for Schnell Schnell, 2015
• Andrew Maize – Lunenburg, NS for THIS TOWN USED TO BE MOSTLY WHITE. NOW IT IS COLOURFUL, 2016
• Justine Skahan – Gatineau, QC for Home, 2016
• Geetha Thurairajah – Sackville, NB for Hotlines, 2016
• Ambera Wellmann – Guelph, ON for Wunde, 2015

  Jury

Western Canada

• Sophie Brodovitch - Director, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
• Tammi Campbell - Artist, Saskatoon
• Reid Shier - Director/Curator, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver

  Central Canada

• Kent Monkman - Artist, Toronto
• Georgia Scherman - Director, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
• Beth Stuart - Artist & 2010 & 2011 RBC Canadian Painting Competition Alumni, Toronto

  Eastern Canada

• Gemey Kelly - Director/Curator, Owens Gallery, Mt. Allison University, Sackville
• Harold Klunder - Artist, Montreal
• Saelan Twerdy - Art Critic, Montreal

  2017

Finalists

• Michael Freeman Badour for Patrick's Boots, 2017
• Amanda Boulos for Duckie Wants Water, 2017
• Teto Elsiddique – Halifax, NS for neckrings, a breezy thing, 2017
• Cindy Ji Hye Kim for Conspiracy Theory, 2017
• David Kaarsemaker for Portage 1, 2017
• Wei Li for Obsessiveness and excitement, never growing out of them, 2017
• Laura Payne for Enneadec II, 2017
• Veronika Pausova – Toronto, ON for Typography, 2017
• Laura Rokas-Bérubé for Paint by Number 7, 2017
• M.E. Sparks for Hollow Dog, 2017
• Kizi Spielmann Rose for Sun and a Tide Pool, 2017
• Angela Teng for Line Dance, 2016
• Joani Tremblay The Lure of the Local Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, 2017
• Tristan Unrau for Nun, After Pasolini, 2017
• Ambera Wellman – Guelph, ON for Temper Ripened, 2007

  2018

Finalists

• Amanda Boulos for In the Morning
• Keiran Brennan Hinton for Hotel Room
• Krystle Coughlin for Untitled
• Sarah Davidson for the garden at night
• Angela Fermor for Portrait 7, Torso
• Karine Fréchette for Croissance 1
• Stephanie Hier for Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• Ally McIntyre for Coyote
• Emmanuel Osahor for Hiding Place
• Lauren Pelc-McArthur for Trop Trop
• geetha thurairajah or A complicated relationship with our past makes for better stories of a future
• Kizi Spielmann Rose for Swallowtail
• Joani Tremblay for The Mind at Three Miles an Hour
• Tristan Unrau for Doggy Dog Afternoon
• Joy Wong for Cotton and Cheese 1

  Jury

• Natasha Chaykowski
• Mark Igloliorte
• Crystal Mowry
• Erin Stump
• Alexandra McIntosh
• Julie Trudel
• Cynthia Daignault