PLATFORM centre is excited to announce the 2025 PLATFORM Photography Award Winner. This year the award goes to intermedia artist, Dion Smith-Dokkie (AB).

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PLATFORM is looking forward to supporting the creation of new works by Smith-Dokkie and working together over the next year. We are excited to see Dion continue working with post-representational cartography and countermapping, further exploring the relationship between the still and moving image and painting. The award includes $4000 CAD, a full year of darkroom and digital workspace access, support from PLATFORM staff, travel support and a one year membership to PLATFORM. This work will debut in March 2026 in Gallery 2. 

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Dion Smith-Dokkie (West Moberly First Nations) is an artist currently living in the Peace Region of northwest Alberta, where he grew up. Translation, mediation, mutation and interface are key operations in Smith-Dokkie’s intermedia practice, which attends to the aesthetics and politics of world-building, infrastructure, communication and epistemology. 

 

He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia and degrees from Concordia University and the University of Victoria. He participated in the Inaugural Lind Biennial at the Polygon Gallery; other recent shows include Wind-Eye at Wil Aballe; Mirrors with Michael Morris at SUM Gallery; Land Breaths at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie; and it hides in the light at The Bows.

 

The 2025 award is generously supported by the Manitoba Arts Council.

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PAST RECIPIENTS

2024 Skye Callow, Spiritual Readings: $50

2023 Taylor McArthur, circles of existence

2022 Glodi Bahati, Notes on Self Invention

2021 Elise Dawson, The Ideal Make Body

2021 Alyssa Bornn, Soft Ceiling

2021 Charles Venzon, Balikbayan Boxes-The Remittance Project-Hereforu

2020 Jean Borbridge, Hypermarket Rupture

2020 Christina Hajjar, Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings

2020 Iyunade Judah, Transcension

2019 Rhayne Vermette, True Stories

2018 Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Recorrer, to wander

2017 Hannah Doucet, I wondered when my body would deflate.