INTRODUCTION
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MONOGRAPHS
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AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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TALKS & TEACHING
Lesia Maruschak is an artist and curator who uses photography, archives and installations to explore the land, histories of colonized peoples and their manifestations of geopolitical shifts, and the personal and cultural ramifications of exile. Her narrative-specific installations with static and moving images and hard and soft sculptural elements have been exhibited in more than 65 museums, galleries and art spaces worldwide. The National Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv, has named her mobile memorial Project MARIA, as the most important exhibition on the Soviet Ukraine famine-genocide
Founder, MENEZVUT Collective
Founder, VYDNO Collective
Management Committee, Terra Ercolano Corporation
Founder, BYZANTIUM
2023 This Land Is My Land, Limited-Edition Commercial Publication, (forthcoming)
2023 The Souvenir Album, Artists’ Book, Ottawa, Canada, (forthcoming)
2022 This Land, Self-Published Artists’ Book, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Transfiguration, Self-Published Artists’ Book; Rockport, Maine, United States
2019 Maria, REDZET Publishing, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: My Canada, Self-Published, Ottawa, Canada
2016 WOMAN, Self-Published Artists’ Book, Ottawa, Canada
2023 Poems of Our Children, Short film, Creative Director, Lesia Maruschak; Director, DOP, Editor, George Hupka, (forthcoming)
2023 Poems of Our Children, Premiere Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
2020 Animatas No.1, Animatas No.2, Two short films, Creative Director, Lesia Maruschak; Director, DOP, Editor, George Hupka
2020 Animatas No.1, Animatas No.2, Premiere Kyiv National Holodomor-Genocide Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Showing, Lviv Museum of History, Lviv, Ukraine, 2020
Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, USA, 2022
Henryk Siemiradzki Art Gallery, Karazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2022
2020 Oh, Canada! Oh, Canada! Short film, Director, Lesia Maruschak; Producer, Editor, George Hupka
Premiere Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain, 2020
Showing, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Spain, 2021
2019 The Diggers - a memory of making, Short film, Creative Director, Lesia Maruschak; Director, DOP, Editor, George Hupka
Nominated Best Short Film, Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards, Saskatoon, Canada, 2019
Premiere Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards, Saskatoon, Canada, 2019
2022 Format Photography Festival Director’s Review Award Derby, UK
2021 Artist in Residence, Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, CA
2021 Shortlist Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugal
2021 16TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD, Winner Segregation and Human Rights
2020 Special Award, InCadaques Foto Festival, Cadaques, Spain
2020 National Builder Award, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Saskatchewan, Canada
2020 Woman of Inspiration, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Project MARIA, Winner Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden
2019 Artist in Residence, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Project MARIA Shortlisted Hariban Award. Tokyo, Japan
2019 Shortlisted Prix du Livres, Rencontres d’Arles. Arles, France
2019 Winner Experimental Book Award Category, Kyiv Arsenal International Book Festival. Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Recipient Grand Prix: Best Book Award, Kyiv Arsenal International Book Festival. Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Shortlisted Athens Photography Book Festival. Athens, Greece
2019 Project MARIA Recipient Director’s Choice Award, CENTER Review Santa Fe. Santa Fe, United States
2018 Artists’ Book TRANSFIGURATION, Artist in Residence, Maine Media Workshops and College. Rockport, United States
2018 Recipient Silver Medal Tokyo International Photo Awards. Tokyo, Japan
2018 Project MARIA Winner 12th Pollux Award Human Rights and Segregation
2018 Winner Fotofilmic Top 30. Vancouver, Canada
2018 Finalist Critical Mass International Photography Competition. Portland, United States
2018 Shortlist Getxophoto Post Conflict Reframing A Dialogue
2013 Governor General of Canada’s Sovereign Medal for Volunteer Award
2013 Governor General of Canada’s Caring Canadian Award
2022 Canada Council of the Arts Digital Now
2020 Franko Foundation Grant
2020 Wasylyk Foundation Grant 2019 Ukrainian World Congress Project MARIA Ukraine Tour Grant Shevchenko Foundation Grant
2017 Ukrainian Credit Union Grant
2017 Ukrainian National Federation
2019 Endowment Council of Canada’s First World War Internment Recognition
2019 Endowment Council of Canada’s First World War Internment Recognition
2023 Poems of My Children, Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
2023 Project MARIA, Poltava History Museum, Poltava, Ukraine
2023 Project MARIA, Ivano-Frankivsk Art Center, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022 Project MARIA, Vinnytsia History Museum, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
2022 Project MARIA, Henryk Siemiradzki Art Gallery, Karazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2021 Project MARIA, Lviv Museum of History, Lviv, Ukraine
2021 Project MARIA, National Holodomor-Genocide Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 This Land Is My Land, Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Spain
2020 This Land Is My Land, Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
2020 Project MARIA, Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Project MARIA, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, United States
2019 Project MARIA, Objectif FEMMES Exposition, Paris
2018 WALKING, Maine Media Art Gallery, Rockport Maine
2018 Project MARIA, Musée Ukraina Museum, Saskatoon, Canada
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Odessa, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Lviv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Ottawa Archives Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, CONTACT Scotiabank Photography Festival, KUMF Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 BELONGING: somewhere/nowhere, Art-Zavod Platforma, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Praxis Gallery, International Juried Exhibition, St. Paul, United States
2022 this is not an ideal time, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, United States
2021 Copenhagen Censored Photography Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Photo ISRAEL, International Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2021 Barcu Photography Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
2021 London Street Photography Festival, London, United Kingdom
2021 Landskrona FotoFestival: THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY, Landskrona, Sweden
2021 7th Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2020 GEXTOPHOTO, Back to the streets, Gexto, Spain
2020 Unveiling Public Art Acquisitions, Ottawa, Canada
2020 Fotofilmic International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2020 PhotoDays, Odessa, Ukraine.
2020 Nave Intervencion, Mérida Yucatan, Mexico
2020 Review Santa Fe Winners Exhibition, Picture Gallery, Bloomington, United States
2019 Marie de 9-ieme, Femme Objectif, Paris, France
2019 Médiathèque E. Rostand, Paris, France
2019 The PhotoGallery, Halmstad, Sweden
2019 12th Pollux Awards Collective Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2019 12th Julia M. Cameron Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Gexto Photofestival, Gexto, Spain
2019 Fotofilmic International Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Fotofilmic International Exhibition, Los Angeles, United States
2018 Post Conflict: Reframing A Dialogue, Gexto FotoFestival, Getxo, Spain
2018 A Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles, Arles, France
2018 Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Long Shot, Photographic Centre Northwest, Seattle, United States
2018 Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, United Kingdom
2018 Wolverhampton Archive Center, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
2018 Dudley Archive Centre, Dudley, United Kingdom
2018 Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
2018 Studio Sixty-Six Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2018 Houston Photography Festival, Houston, United States
2017 DAB Gallery, Ventura, California
2017 LENSCULTURE Magnum Photography Awards Competition Gallery
2017 Santa Fe Photo Festival, REVIEW 100, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Linus Gallery, Quiet Long Beach, California
2017 Dab Art Gallery, Ventura California
2016 WOMAN, Phoenix Art Museum, Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix, United States
2016 Agora Fine Art Gallery, New York, United States
2016 Signs of Life, Lenscratch Online Gallery
2016 Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, United States
2016 Photography: A Contemporary Point of View, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, United States
2016 Saatchi Online Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020 The Diggers, Appalachian University, Boone, United States
2020 Will You Remember Maria? Turchin Visual Arts Centre, Boone, United States
2019 Will You Remember Maria? Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
2019 Will You Remember Maria?, Conference: Why Remember? Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 Will You Remember Maria?, FORMAT19 Conference Presenter, Derby, United Kingdom
2018 Special Guest of Peter Lindbergh, Photo Venezia, Venice, Italy
2018 Artist Talk, MARIA, Musée Ukraina Museum, Saskatoon, Canada
2017 Special Guest of Peter Lindbergh, Palm Spring Photo festival, Palm Springs, United States
2017 Master Class, The Language of Creativity, Gary Bowman Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2017 Master Class, The Language of Creativity, N-T Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine