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New Horizons Prize — Grantham Foundation
The Prix Horizons nouveaux invites graduate students in visual arts from eligible Quebec universities to submit their academic and artistic portfolios focusing on environmental concerns for a chance to win a prize and participate in an exhibition.
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Get matched →The Prix Horizons nouveaux is awarded annually to a visual arts graduate student in a Quebec university through a partnership between the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment and the Pierre Mantha Foundation. The prize includes an exhibition at the Foundation featuring works from 6 students (1 per participating university) whose applications were submitted to the selection committee. The objective is to reward visual arts students with exceptional academic records and artistic practices addressing environmental concerns, and to encourage visual artists in the process of professionalization.
The program is open to 3rd-year bachelor's and master's visual arts students enrolled in a Quebec university offering a graduate program in visual arts. These universities are: Concordia University, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec en Outaouais, and Université Laval. Students must have been residents of Quebec for at least 3 years. Visual arts include professionally recognized practices such as photographic, installation, sculptural, pictorial, graphic, and performative arts, as well as sound, digital, and media arts.
The prize is CA$3,000. An award ceremony will be organized at the Grantham Foundation with representatives from the Pierre Mantha Foundation. The Grantham Foundation commits to presenting the annual Horizons nouveaux exhibition featuring the works of the 6 selected students (1 per university). The Foundation also commits to offering exhibition and reproduction rights royalties for the 6 artists, covering travel expenses, promoting the exhibition, organizing a public vernissage, providing curatorial support, and producing documentation by a professional photographer. Artwork selection for the exhibition will be made in summer 2026 by the curator from each student's completed body of work. The laureate's host university commits to producing a video capsule on the student's artistic process and work, to be presented on the Foundation's website and social media.
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Application materials must be assembled, in the order indicated, into a single PDF document no larger than 1GB. Students must submit their application via WeTransfer to their university's designated contact person by March 16, 2026.
Selection criteria include: the general quality of the academic record, the general quality of the artistic approach, and the relevance of the visual portfolio in relation to environmental issues. The selection committee consists of 6 professors representing the 6 Quebec universities offering a full master's program in visual arts. The artistic director of the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment acts as committee chair. A representative of the Pierre Mantha Foundation attends deliberations as an observer.