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Abbas Akhavan awarded 2015 Sobey Art Award

Congratulations to Toronto-based artist Abbas Akhavan for winning the 2015 Sobey Art Award. The Tehran-born Akhavan, 38, prevailed over four other finalists to take the juried prize at a ceremony held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. Abbas works in a variety of idioms – installation art, video, drawing, painting, sculpture and performance […]

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