Sky Glabush (born 1970)"Brain, Body, Hands: Meet Sky Glabush, Canada's Most Restless Painter". Canadian Art Magazine, April 26, 2013. by David Balzer is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario."In Studio: Sky Glabush, A New Garden". Toronto Star, Murray Whyte, Jan. 7, 2017 He has created works in a number of media, but is best known as a painter. He is an associate professor of visual art at the University of Western Ontario. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada."Sky Glabush Paints the Story", National Gallery of Canada Magazine, Chris Hampton, January 28, 2020
Early life and education Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work."Sky Glabush: Faith in Gesture". Canadian Art Magazine, April 1, 2014. by David Balzer
Career In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario. That year he held his first solo exhibition, Provisional Structures. In 2009 he exhibited Renting, a series of paintings of rental properties."A Conversation With Sky Glabush". White Hopt Magazine, April 2020. by Matthew Smith
Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings."In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend". MOMUS, By Sky Goodden • Reviews• March 14, 2016 In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries, as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway."Floating Carpets". Contemporary Art Stavange, October 14, 2016 review by Astrid Helen Windingstad
In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons."Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener". London Free Press, Heather Rivers, February 29, 2020"Project opens doors of prisons to creativity". Education News Canada, February 18, 2020, by Sonia Preszcator That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Exhibitions Solo shows All Night I Heard a Singing Bird, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2025) The Letters of this Alphabet Were Trees, Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, United States (2024) The Arrangement of the Stars, Stephen Friedman Galary, London, England (2023) Weight of Light, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2021) The Caged Lark, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2021) The Structure of Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2020) Projet Pangée, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2018) The Valley of Love, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2018) A New Garden, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2017) The Window is Also a Door, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway (2016) What is a Self? Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (2016) Display, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2014) The Kingdom on Names Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Canada (2012) Background, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2011)"Sky Glabush Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor". Canadian Art Magazine, review by Sky Goodden, June 15, 2011 Renting, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2009) Homes for Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (2007) Provisional Structures, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (2006)
Group shows Flowers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2025) The Sky Has a Thousand Windows, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2024) Spaces, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States (2024) The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2023) The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London, England (2022) BodyLand, Galerie Max Hetlzer, Berlin, Germany (2022) Unnatural Nature, Acquavella Galleries, New York, United States (2022) Land of the Lotus Eaters, Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, Italy (2022) Here Comes the Sun, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021) Works from the Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2021) Thinking with My Hands, Galerie Zink Waldkirchen, Seubersdorf, Germany (2018) A Home in the Country, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2018) Again, and Again, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada(2017) Stellar Living, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2015) The Painting Project, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada (2013) Go Figure, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2011) A Sudden Frost, Elissa Cristall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2010) Allure of the Local, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada (2009) Hinterland, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada (2008) Canada Calling: Recent work by Sky Glabush and Shary Boyle, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2006) Here and Now, Current Drawings, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (2005)
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External links "Professor’s works rank among Canadian treasures". Western News, December 17, 2015 By Jason Winders What is a Self? by John Davies Sky Glabush Biography: By Contemporary Art Magazine Sky Glabush Website Sky Glabush profile at Western Faculty of Visual Arts