Lesia Maruschak is an artist working across photography, performance, and the staging of ambitious installations within the landscape. Her practice is underpinned by rigorous research examining the land, histories of colonization, geopolitics, and exile. She has exhibited at 65 museums, galleries and art spaces worldwide. The National Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv named her mobile memorial Project MARIA as the most important exhibition on the Soviet Ukraine famine-genocide. Maruschak’s monograph Maria won the Kyiv International Book Festival Grand Prix Award and Experimental Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Rencontres de Arles Book Award and the Athens Photography Festival Book Award.
Maruschak’s highly coveted limited edition art books are held in numerous collections including the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, Thomas Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Boston Athenaeum, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, Green Library-Special Collections at Stanford, Rare Books & Special Collections at the Library of Congress, and Butler Library-Special Collections at Columbia University.
Maruschak is the founder of the MENEZVUT and VYDNO Collectives and her work is supported by the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ukrainian World Congress, the Canada First World War Internment Recognition Endowment Council and numerous private foundations. Maruschak is the recipient of the General of Canada Silver Medal Award and Caring Canadian Award, Ukrainian Canadian Congress Saskatchewan National Builder’s Award, and the Ottawa Woman of Inspiration Award. She is currently a Research Affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan, Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage. Lesia Maruschak (b. 1961) currently lives/works between Ottawa, ON, and Alvena, SK. She graduated University of Saskatchewan (MA), University of Ottawa (MBA) and completed fine art studies in the United States and Romania.
Maruschak’s work is held in the collections of:
Bodleian, University of Oxford. Oxford, United Kingdom
Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
Victoria And Albert Museum, London, England
Maison Européenne De La Photographie, Paris, France
Rare Books & Special Collections. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, United States
Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Saskatchewan Arts Permanent Collection, Saskatchewan, Canada
Embassy of Ukraine In The Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Washington, United States
Rencontres d’Arles Library, Arles, France
City of Ottawa Art Collection, Ottawa, Canada
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, United States
Green Library-Special Collections. Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Richter Library-Special Collections. University of Miami, Coral Gables, United States
Boston Athenaeum. Boston, United States
Davidson Library-Special Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
Morris Library-Special Collections, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Butler Library-Special Collections, Columbia University, New York, United States
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library-Special Collections, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, United States
Dodds Special Collections Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States
Olin Library-Special Collections, Wesleyan University, Middletown, United States
Aperture Photobook Library, New York, United States
Phoenix Museum of Art. Phoenix, Phoenix, United States
National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
24 Sussex, Prime Minister of Canada’s Residence. Ottawa, Canada
Phoenix Museum of Art. Phoenix, United States
Kyiv Museum of History, Kyiv, Ukraine
Daab Art Gallery, Ventura, California
Canadian Embassy in Ukraine, Kyiv Ukraine