where memory becomes art

Past Exhibition: TRANSLATIONS 19,546 at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, 2024

A black and white photo of a Lesia Maruschak sitting with her knees up, her right arm resting on her knee, and her left hand touching her head, looking pensively to the side.

©Sergey Talochko

Lesia Maruschak is a Canadian settler 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.

Maruschak is renowned for her fine art books which are described as ‘rare object’ creations - intimate explorations of history and memory.

Maruschak’s works have earned international accolades and reside in the special collections of over 25 major museums and libraries, from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.