Georgiana Uhlyarik-Nicolae, also known as Georgiana Uhlyarik (born 1972)[1] is a Romanian-born Canadian art curator, art historian, and teacher. She is currently the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).[2][3][4] She has been part of the team or led teams that created numerous exhibitions, on subjects such as Betty Goodwin, Michael Snow, and Kathleen Munn among others and collaborated with art organizations such as the Tate Modern, and the Jewish Museum, New York.
Georgiana Uhlyarik | |
|---|---|
| Born | Georgiana Uhlyarik-Nicolae 1972 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Canadian art curator, art historian, and teacher |
Uhlyarik won the 2023 Toronto Book Award for her book Moving the Museum, authored with Wanda Nanibush.[5]
Biography
editUhlyarik was born in Bucharest, Romania as the only child of Mariana Nicolae, an architect and Nicolae Uhlyarik, a chemical engineer.[citation needed]
Uhlyarik is the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) since 2002. In 2014, the AGO hosted another Uhlyarik project, Introducing Suzy Lake.[6] The 2015 exhibition Picturing the Americas that opened at the AGO and then toured the United States and Brasil, which Uhlyarik co-curated with P.J. Brownlee, curator of the Terra Foundation for American Art and Valeria Piccoli chief curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil won the 2016 Award of Excellence[7] of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). Uhlyarik authored the essay on "Letendre in Toronto" in the catalogue of the AGO retrospective of Rita Letendre in 2017[8] and in the same year worked on the 2017 Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective[9] which was both an artistic achievement and a commercial success.[10] In 2018 she co-curated TUNIRRUSIANGIT,[11] an AGO exhibition of works by Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak. She also co-curated and contributed to the catalogue of Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940 (2021), co-organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada.[12][13]
Uhlyarik teaches courses on Canadian art at the University of Toronto where she is an Associate Professor,[14] is an outspoken advocate for the promotion of women artists and curators as well as publicizing of Canadian indigenous art.
Uhlyarik is the author of Kathleen Munn: Life & Work (2014), published by the Art Canada Institute. She wrote an article on Munn in Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement.[15]
Awards and honours
edit- 2016: 2016 Award of Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators for Picturing the Americas[7]
- 2023: Toronto book Award with Wanda Nanibush for Moving the Museum[5]
References
edit- ^ "Uhlyarik, Georgiana, 1972-". viaf.org. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ Rattan, Chris (5 June 2018). "Who has the authority to rename a problematic painting?". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ Loos, Ted (13 July 2018). "A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don't Call It 'Indian.'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "AGO adds curators, renames Canadian art department to explicitly include Indigenous works | The Star". The Toronto Star. 3 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik win 2023 Toronto Book Award - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 11 October 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "Introducing Suzy Lake". Art Gallery of Ontario.
- ^ a b "Awards for Excellence Announced - Association of Art Museum Curators". www.artcurators.org.
- ^ Uhlyarik, Georgiana. "Letendre in Toronto". ago.ent.sirsidynix.net. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Csanady, Ashley (21 April 2017). "How Georgia O'Keeffe's contribution to American modernism was planted deeper than petals and poppies | National Post". National Post.
- ^ "Georgia O'Keeffe at the AGO". NUVO. 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak Public Opening". Art Gallery of Ontario.
- ^ Wells, Lily Tiger T. "Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940". www.chiaroscuromagazine.com. Chiaroscuro magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940. Prestel. 2021. ISBN 9783791359946. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "Georgiana Uhlyarik". arthistory.utoronto.ca. U of T. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Uhlyarik, Georgiana (2021). article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. p. 75. Retrieved 6 September 2023.