Georgiana Uhlyarik

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, Kathleen Munn among others and collaborated with art organizations like Tate Modern, and the Jewish Museum, New York.

Biography

Uhlyarik was born in Bucharest, Romania as the only child of Mariana Nicolae, an architect and Nicolae Uhlyarik, a chemical engineer.

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.[5] 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[6] of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). Uhlyarik worked on the 2017 AGO Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective [7] which was both an artistic achievement and a commercial success.[8] In 2018 she co-curated TUNIRRUSIANGIT,[9] an AGO exhibition of works by Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak.

Uhlyarik teaches courses on Canadian art, is an outspoken advocate for the promotion of women artists and curators as well as publicizing of Canadian indigenous art.

References
  1. "Uhlyarik, Georgiana, 1972-". viaf.org. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  2. Rattan, Chris (2018-06-05). "Who has the authority to rename a problematic painting?". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  3. Loos, Ted (2018-07-13). "A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don't Call It 'Indian.'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  4. "AGO adds curators, renames Canadian art department to explicitly include Indigenous works | The Star". thestar.com.
  5. "Introducing Suzy Lake". Art Gallery of Ontario.
  6. "Awards for Excellence Announced - Association of Art Museum Curators". www.artcurators.org.
  7. "How Georgia O'Keeffe's contribution to American modernism was planted deeper than petals and poppies | National Post". April 21, 2017.
  8. "Georgia O'Keeffe at the AGO". NUVO. April 17, 2017.
  9. "Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak Public Opening". Art Gallery of Ontario.
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