The Audain Prize for the Visual Arts (Audain Prize) is an annual award that recognizes a distinguished Canadian artist.
An independent jury, composed of volunteers of the visual arts community, brings forth nominations, discusses, and then selects a recipient.
Typically included are Directors or Chief Curators, and one past prize recipient.
[3] One recipient is selected annually, although in 2013, the jury made an exception and selected two recipients - Gathie Falk and Takao Tanabe.
In 2020, as a result of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts community, it was decided to allocate the prize monies to artist-run centres in British Columbia.