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Ursula Johnson, a Nova Scotia artist, has won Canada's largest prize for contemporary art, the $50,000 Sobey Art Award.

A Mi'kmaw performance and installation artist, Johnson incorporates her heritage into her art, which challenges and explores issues of identity, traditional Indigenous culture and colonial history. 

The award's selection committee praised her "strong voice, her generosity and collaborative spirit. Through her work, she redefines traditional materials and re-imagines colonized histories."

This year, for the first time in the award's history, the award list was dominat...