Sky Glabush

Sky Glabush is a Canadian artist based in Southwestern Ontario. 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.

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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.

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.
Over the next several years Glabush created and exhibited artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, pottery, weaving and large-scale paintings. 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.
In 2020 Glabush travelled to Guyana, where he taught art to the inmates of prisons. 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
The Letters of this Alphabet Were Trees, Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, United States
The Arrangement of the Stars, Stephen Friedman Galary, London, England
Weight of Light, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Caged Lark, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Structure of Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
Projet Pangée, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Valley of Love, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A New Garden, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Window is Also a Door, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
What is a Self? Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Display, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Kingdom on Names Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Background, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario
Renting, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Homes for Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Provisional Structures, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Group shows

Flowers, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
The Sky Has a Thousand Windows, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spaces, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London, England
BodyLand, Galerie Max Hetlzer, Berlin, Germany
Unnatural Nature, Acquavella Galleries, New York, United States
Land of the Lotus Eaters, Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, Italy
Here Comes the Sun, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Works from the Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Thinking with My Hands, Galerie Zink Waldkirchen, Seubersdorf, Germany
A Home in the Country, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Again, and Again, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stellar Living, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Painting Project, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Go Figure, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario
A Sudden Frost, Elissa Cristall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Allure of the Local, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada
Hinterland, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Canada Calling: Recent work by Sky Glabush and Shary Boyle, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Here and Now, Current Drawings, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta