Lesia Maruschak
Lesia Maruschak (born 1961) is a Canadian photographer, living in Ottawa. Her work Maria about the Ukrainian famine, has been published as a book, exhibited at the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv, Ukraine and won the Grand Prix at Arsenal Book Festival there. She was awarded the Governor General of Canada's Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers for her blood cancer charity work.
Lesia Maruschak
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- 1961
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- Canada
- Occupation
- photographer
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Lesia Maruschak (born 1961) is a Canadian photographer, living in Ottawa. Her work Maria about the Ukrainian famine, has been published as a book, exhibited at the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv, Ukraine and won the Grand Prix at Arsenal Book Festival there. She was awarded the Governor General of Canada's Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers for her blood cancer charity work.
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Life and work
Life and work
Maruschak was born in Saskatoon, Canada and is of Ukrainian descent. She received an MA in Ethnography from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and an MBA in Competitive Intelligence from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa. She lives in Ottawa.
Charity work
Charity work
Maruschak has a blood cancer known as chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She was awarded the Governor General of Canada's Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers in 2013 for volunteering, fundraising and awareness raising around the topic, and for founding the non-profit organisation Cure: Blood Cancer.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Walking, Maine Media Art Gallery, Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, Maine, USA, 2018 • Project Maria, Landskrona Citadel, Landskrona Foto festival, Landskrona, Scania, Sweden, 2020; National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020/21
Publications
• Maria. Charkiw-Kyiv, Ukraine: Red Zet, 2018.. Edition of 200 copies. • Transfiguration. Ottawa: Folio Efemera; Portland: Wiesedruck, 2018.. With an essay by Alison Nordström, "From Ashes".
Photography
Her Project Maria or Maria is based on a photograph of Maria F, a girl who survived Holodomor, the Soviet Ukrainian famine of 1932–33. Maruschak's fictional album of Maria's life "chisels out Maria's fate and portrays the relationship between the past and our time".
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Awards
• Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers, Governor General of Canada • Experiment category, Arsenal Book Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019 for Maria • Grand Prix of the Contest, Arsenal Book Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019 for Maria
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- 1.Lesia Maruschak. The PhotoGallery.
- 2.Street raises $10,000 to find cure for blood cancer. Brampton Guardian.
- 3.World's most famous exhibit on Holodomor on display in Kyiv (Photo). Ukrainian Independent Information Agency.
- 4.Ms. Lesia Maruschak. Governor General of Canada.
- 5.Lesia Maruschak - Maria. Landskrona Foto.
- 6.You must remember this: Landskrona festival's most memorable shots – in pictures. The Guardian. 15 September 2020. 0261-3077.
- 7.About. Lesia Maruschak.
- 8.Maria Lesia Maruschak. yogurtmagazine.com.
- 9.Media Advisory: Governor General to Present Caring Canadian Award to 46 Volunteers. Yahoo! Finance. 4 April 2014.
- 10.Vogue.ua. «Книжный Арсенал» назвал самую красивую книгу 2019 года. Vogue Ukraine. 23 May 2019.
- 11."Книжковий Арсенал-2019": назвали найкрасивішу книжку року. 5 Kanal (Ukraine).
- 12.Maria wins top honour at International Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv - News - Ukrainian World Congress. Ukrainian World Congress.
- 13.Recently. Maine Media Workshops.
- 14."Maria": The Most Famous Exhibition about the Holodomor Is in Ukraine for the First Time. National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.
- 15.Lesia Maruschak : Project Maria. The Eye of Photography Magazine. 29 January 2021.
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