The Lynne Cohen Estate, in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) and its Foundation, has awarded the 2025 Lynne-Cohen Prize to Fatine-Violette Sabiri. This official recognition of an emerging artist allows the Museum to take part in the vitality of Québec’s contemporary art ecosystem while furthering its mission.
Fatine-Violette Sabiri is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photographic and tactile media. Her autobiographical and intuitive work examines personal narratives and encounters with communities, places, and objects in her immediate environment. Her photographic practice combines documentary images, commissioned portraits, and fashion photography. Her work is nourished by memories of attachment and adaptation, with instinct, hybridity, and humor as its dominant themes.
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1994, Fatine-Violette Sabiri lives and works in Montreal, Québec.
To introduce Fatine-Violette Sabiri to a wider public, the MNBAQ produced a video capsule in the artist’s Montreal studio. Released on the Museum’s social media channels to mark the announcement of her prize, this feature on the winner of the 2025 Lynne-Cohen Prize presents her artistic approach along with a selection of works illustrating her trajectory over the past few years.
Awarded every two years since 2017, the prize aims to support the practice of emerging professional visual artists in Québec who place photography at the center of their work. The laureate received a grant of $10,000, and her work will be highlighted through a video portrait produced and directed by the MNBAQ, broadcast across all its platforms.
Three artists were put forward by the jury members who met last September, in addition to Fatine-Violette Sabiri: Michelle Bui, Charlotte Gomeshi, and Sam Lee. The discussions, which addressed the practices of all these artists, were rich and generous, allowing several jury members to discover particularly powerful works beyond the scope of the mandate entrusted to them.
https://www.mnbaq.org/en/research-and-innovation/lynne-cohen-prize
