Sky Glabush
# Sky Glabush

Sky Glabush (born 1970) 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.

## 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

* Provisional Structures, University of Alberta, (2006)
* Homes for Canada, University of Manitoba (2007)
* Renting, MKG127, Toronto Ontario (2009)
* Background, MKG127, Toronto Ontario(2011)
* The Kingdom on Names Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Ontario (2012)
* Display, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2014)
* What is a self? Oakville Galleries, oakville, Ontario (2016)
* The Window is Also a Door, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway (2016)
* A new Garden, MKG127, Toronto, Ontario (2017)
* The Valley of Love, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, Ontario (2018)
* Projet Pangée, Montreal, Quebec (2018)
* The Structure of Painting, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2020)
* The Caged Lark, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2021)
* Weight of Light, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2021)

### Group shows

* Here and Now (2005)
* Canada Calling (2006)
* Hinterland (2008)
* Allure of the Local (2009)
* A Sudden Frost (2010)
* The Painting Project (2013)
* Go Figure (2011)
* Untitled Art Show (2014)
* Stellar Living (2015)
* Again, and Again (2017)
* A Home in the Country (2018)
* Thinking with My Hands (2018)
* From Within (2020)
* Unnatural Nature (2022)
