TORONTO - Toronto multi-disciplinary artist Kristan Horton has won the $50,000 Grange Prize for photography.
Horton is an artist who uses sculpture, drawing, photography and video to create layered projects.
Horton has had his work featured at the Art Gallery of York University, Vancouver's the Contemporary Art Gallery and New York's White Columns.
The three other finalists -- Americans Josh Brand and Leslie Hewitt and Canadian Moyra Davey -- receive $5,000 each. The finalists were selected by a jury of international art curators.
Voters participated online and in person at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where the finalists' work was on display.
The Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit continues through January 2.
"The Grange Prize exists to showcase the best in international photography and to engage the public in a conversation about why photography matters," Art Gallery of Ontario CEO Matthew Teitelbaum said in a release.
"No better is this exemplified than in the outstanding work of Kristan Horton and our three finalists, and I congratulate them all on their accomplishments."
In 2009, the Grange Prize was awarded to Mexican photographer Marco Antonio Cruz, while Winnipeg-based artist Sarah Anne Johnson won in '08.
