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Canvas Paintings

$500

Illustrations

$500

Sculpture Art

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Member Since

January, 2023

sonya iwasiuk in Canada

sonya iwasiuk

Sonya

Vancouver,Canada

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Total years of experience:

Workshop

13 Years

About
Sonya Iwasiuk is a contemporary mixed media artist and artist educator who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She spent her childhood years roaming the enchanted prairies of Northern Alberta discovering abandoned homesteads and discarded objects. She realized that these forgotten places were very alive. They speak of people and memory, a silent history of past lives. Sonya received her diploma in advertising in 1991. An award-winning graphic designer, the spirited artist within her needed to break free and she started to pursue painting. She began to experiment with mediums other than paint and has never looked back. Through trial and error, she has developed unique techniques such as large embossed acrylic skins, mixed media paintings on her own hand-rusted steel sheets, and paintings on engraved plaster. She continuously explores and experiments with new combinations of materials and methods to present her creative vision in a distinctive and contemporary way. This adventuring also informs her art lessons and ensures that her teaching is always unique and fresh. Sonya’s artworks are often representative of her childhood years. Beautiful prairie landscapes and derelict buildings are portrayed using various media including plaster, hand-rusted steel, found or repurposed objects and gold leaf. She has also created series based on stories that she comes upon while making her way through the world. Sometimes her stories have more difficult narratives she thinks people should contemplate on such as war, forced migration, SRO’s, abuse, misogyny, homelessness, immigration, racism and prejudice and her LGBTQS2+ community. Her work has been shown in various galleries and exhibitions within British Columbia and Alberta. She has been selected by jury to create public art installation commissions as well as to participate in select art shows. In her spare time, Sonya loves camping alone in the backwoods with the wild ones, foraging for wild edibles, cultural performances and events, and spending quality time with those that she loves.

Pick me for these projects! :-

Commissions especially historical or archival photo based

I'll sit these ones out :-

Workshop
Under a New Sky
The Sweet Time Before Dark
A New Resilience - Ukranian Flyer
I Wash My Face Starlight
Resilience and the Moon
Where love Grows
Mother - Sculpture from A New Resilience Installation
Somewhere I Belong
A New Resilience Installation
I Love the Way You Say My Name
Woven Histories
Embedded in My Soul
A Walk in the Past - Vanacity Maillardville Branch
Dreams in a Beautiful Land
You Are My Home
Vignette of Home
Old Shed with Barrels
Beautiful Yesterday
When Night Falls

Qualifications/Positions:

Certified GOLDEN Artist Educator

Awards/Grants:

Exhibitions:

Public Art Commissions
2018 Vancity,   “Woven Histories”,   New Westminster,   BC,   Canada
2017 Vancity,   “A Walk in Our Past”,   Coquitlam,   BC,   Canada

Upcoming Exhibitions
2023 Deer Lake Gallery,   “Common Ground”,   Burnaby,   BC Canada
2023 Hearth Gallery,   “TBD”,   Bowen Island,   BC Canada

Solo Exhibitions
2020 Port Moody Art Centre,   “A New Resilience”,   Port Moody,   BC,   Canada

Two-Three Person Exhibitions
2022 September,   Labour and Memory – Ukrainian Canadian Contexts,   with Ayla Dmyterko and Darlene Kalynka,   The ACT Arts Centre,   Maple Ridge,   BC Canada
2019 Yeats Gallery,   Metaphysical Morphs,   with Denna Erickson,   West Vancouver,   BC,   Canada
2013 Elevation Gallery,   “Voices from Within” (with sculpture by Morley Myers),   Canmore,   Alberta,   Canada

Group Exhibitions
2022 Elevation Gallery,   “The Lion and the Lamb”,   Fernie,   BC Canada
2022 The George,   “The Poetry Project”,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2021 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2021 Parker Art Salon,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2020 Gallery George,   “Big and Small”,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2019 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2019 Parker Art Salon
2018 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2018 Parker Art Salon
2017 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2017 Parker Art Salon
2016 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2016 Parker Art Salon,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2015 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2014 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2013 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2013 Sopa Fine Arts,   “U8 Show” Kelowna,   BC Canada
2012 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2012 Seymour Art Gallery,   “Spring Show”,   North Vancouver,   BC Canada
2011 Eastside Culture Crawl,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2011 Elevation Art Gallery,   “Sacred Modern”,   Canmore,   Alberta Canada
2010 Elevation Art Gallery,   “The Small Show”,   Canmore,   Alberta Canada
2010 – 2022 – various commissioned pieces

Teaching – Adult Mixed Media
2009 – current The ArtWay Studios,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2009 – current Sonya Iwasiuk Art Studio,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2011 – Nikkei Place,   Burnaby,   BC Canada
2019 – Shadbolt Art Center,   Burnaby,   BC Canada
2020 – Vancouver Arts,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2020 – Opus,   Vancouver,   BC Canada
2022 – The ACT Arts Centre,   Maple Ridge,   BC Canada
2022 – Catalyst Art Lab,   Chicago,   Illinois,   USA

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