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

Group shows