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Nik Semenoff
Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1999
Nik Semenoff is honoured for his accomplishments as an artist, printmaker, goldsmith, educator and inventor. He revolutionized modern lithography and invented a number of new printmaking processes, in particular the waterless lithographic process. His discoveries and research have been presented at international academic conferences, published in academic journals and outlined on a popular web site. As an artist, his work has been commissioned and exhibited internationally, and has been included in major collections. He served as Artist-in-Residence and a member of the faculty at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan.