The Kingston Prize

09/01/2026

⏰ Today is the day!

Submissions to The Kingston Prize 2026 close tonight. If your portrait is ready, this is your moment.

📅 Deadline: September 1, 2026 (today)
💻 Online entry only
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Good luck to every artist submitting today! 🇨🇦

08/26/2026

⏳ 5 days left to submit to The Kingston Prize 2026.

Finish the piece. Photograph it. File your entry.

📅 Deadline: September 1, 2026
💻 Online entry only, $40 fee
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🇫🇷 En savoir plus : kingstonprize.ca/how-to-enter-2

Tag an artist making their final push 👇

08/25/2026

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“Attach”
Artist: Paul Robert Turner
Kingston Prize Finalist, 2007
People’s Choice Award + Honourable Mention
Toronto, ON
Oil on canvas
128 x 149 cm

Painted specifically for the Kingston Prize, “Attach” began with Turner’s intention to capture the intensity of a central figure supported or compromised by a secondary one. A couple offered the obvious compositional tension, a space to explore the positive and negative dynamics of partnership, both emotional and physical. Puzzle pieces were eventually added to the floor, and the centrality of the female subject was shifted to make room for the shadow on the wall and an empty chair that stood in the subject’s house during the first sitting. The pose was choreographed so that each figure’s position and demeanor seems tied directly to the other, a subtle balance of comfort and discomfort, poise and candor.

🔗 See more finalists at kingstonprize.ca

CanadianArtCompetition

08/24/2026

🎨 Meet the 2026 jury.

Three distinguished voices in Canadian art, bringing diverse perspectives to the selection of this year’s Kingston Prize finalists.

Lauchlan Reid lauchie
Chair of the Jury
📍Toronto, ON
Chair of Illustration, OCAD University

Kanika Anand Kanika Anand
Juror
📍Calgary, AB
Senior Curator, Contemporary Calgary

Mireille Eagan Mireille Eagan
Juror
📍St. John’s, NL
Curator of Contemporary Art, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery

Swipe to meet each juror. Together, they bring perspectives from illustration and material research, international curatorial practice, and Atlantic Canadian art history.

The 2026 Kingston Prize submissions close September 1!

🔗 See the full jury at kingstonprize.ca/about-the-kingston-prize/jury

08/23/2026