Sky Glabush (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario.[2] 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.[3]
Early life and education
Glabush was born in Alert Bay, British Columbia.[1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta.[1] Glabush is a Baháʼí, and the Baháʼí Faith is significant to his work.[4]
Career
In 2006 Glabush began teaching art at the University of Western Ontario.[1] That year he held his first solo exhibition, Provisional Structures. In 2009 he exhibited Renting, a series of paintings of rental properties.[5]
Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings.[6] In 2016 he exhibited a series of neo-Modernist sculpture and tapestries at the Oakville Galleries,[6] as well as holding an exhibition of woven artworks in Norway.[7]
In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons.[8][9] That year two of his large-scale paintings were added to the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.[3]
