Sky Glabush | |
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| Born | August 26, 1970 Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada |
| Education | University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta |
| Known for | Painter, Fabric artist |
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]
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]
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]
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