Natalka Husar

Natalka Husar (born 1951)[1] is an American-born Canadian painter. Born in New Jersey to parents who had emigrated from Ukraine, Husar earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University in 1973, moving to Toronto shortly thereafter.[2]

Natalka Husar
Born
Natalka Husar

1951
New Jersey, United States
NationalityCanadian
EducationB.F.A., Rutgers University, New Jersey
Known forPainting

She began exhibiting after her move to Canada, and has since received numerous awards for her work. She is known for her large representational oil paintings which draw on aspects of Ukrainian culture and history and combine them with her feminist concerns.[2]

In 2009, the Art Gallery of Guelph organized and circulated a major exhibition of 50 paintings by Husar, Burden of Innocence. It was accompanied by a book by and about Husar, with an essay and poems by Janice Kulyk Keefer. Husar presented the show as a history play with three acts in order to better explore her themes.[3]

In 2016, she was part of a show at the Chicago Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Reality Check: Directions in Ukrainian art since its independence.[4]

The Canadian Museum of Civilization, the National Gallery of Canada,[5] the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa and the Canada Council art bank are among institutions holding examples of Husar's work.[6]

References
  1. Husar, Natalka. "Our Lady of Mississauga". www.virtualmuseum.ca.
  2. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (December 19, 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  3. Husar, Natalka; Keeler, Janice (2009). Burden of Innocence. Rodovid. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  4. "Reality Check" (PDF). chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune, Aug 25, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  5. "Natalka Husar". www.gallery.ca.
  6. "Natalka Husar". Retrieved February 3, 2017.

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