Audie Murray awarded ohpinamake Indigenous art prize at USask – University of Saskatchewan
Mar 14, 2025
The Saskatchewan-based Métis artist lifts others through her work
Audie Murray is the newest winner of ohpinamake, an annual Indigenous art award presented by the University of Saskatchewan (USask).
The $10,000 prize was created in 2021 through a donation by Jim and Marian Knock. It celebrates a practicing Indigenous artist whose work empowers and uplifts other people. In nêhiyawêwin (Cree), ohpinamake means “to lift others.”
Murray is a multi-disciplinary Cree-Métis and Michif artist from Saskatchewan. She works with themes of contemporary Indigenous culture and ideas of duality and connectivity, drawing on time-honoured techniques and contemporary concepts to inform her material choices.
