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		https://lesiamaruschak.com/
 Biografia
 
 Lesia Maruschak overlays and reconfigures 
		traditional notions of imagery, often using the medium of photography as 
		the subject itself. Her work frequently explores marginalized histories 
		and notions of cultural identity. Blurring the lines between painting 
		and photography, imagery and objecthood, physical and digital her work 
		volleys between historical traditions and unconventional methods. Her 
		diverse strategies such as hand sculpturing photographs, embedding paper 
		with digital technology, and inserting herself into her work as a 
		rückenfigur subsumed in the grandeur of the Canadian prairie landscape, 
		anonymous, without identity, are the foci of her practice as she 
		continues to explore making and being in relation to her lived 
		experience. From photography to sculpture, text, film, and performance, 
		her projects involve extensive field research both on and with archives, 
		individuals, and institutions.
 
 Born in 1961 in Saskatoon, Canada Maruschak currently works and lives 
		between Alvena and Ottawa. She holds a MA from the University of 
		Saskatchewan, and a MBA from the University of Ottawa. Her works are 
		represented in the collections of The National Art Library, Victoria & 
		Albert Museum in London, Thomas Watson Library at the Metropolitan 
		Museum of Art in New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 
		Paris, Boston Athenaeum in Boston, City of Ottawa Art Collection in 
		Ottawa, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke 
		University in Durham, Green Library-Special Collections at Stanford 
		University in Stanford, Rare Books & Special Collections at the Library 
		of Congress. in Washington, Butler Library-Special Collections at 
		Columbia University in New York, among many others. Maruschak is also 
		the founder of the newly formed MENEZVUT Collective, a group of 
		indigenous and non-indigenous Canadian artists, some emerging and some 
		of Canada’s most celebrated, manifesting their individual and co-created 
		responses, to the decolonization of Canadian history, and the ensuing 
		trauma. Maruschak is currently completing two books concerning Canada’s 
		first world war internment operations supported by grants from the 
		Canada First World War Internment Recognition Endowment Council, the 
		Franko Foundation, the Wasylyk Foundation and the Ukrainian Credit Union 
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