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Natalia Laluq Curriculum Vitae

Education and Training

1987-93: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Faculty of Graphic Arts in the Kyiv department of Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. Studied advanced drawing, painting - prof. Florian Yuriev, composition, art history, printmaking, design and calligraphy. Specialized in book design and illustration.
1983-86: Olga Krylova Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine. Studied drawing, painting, and composition.

Selected Solo Shows

2020: Unstretched, Coach House Studio, Toronto, On, Canada
2017: Zoom In and Zoom Out, paintings, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017: Clay Hammer, ceramic objects, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016: Severe Beauty, paintings, Studio 5, Toronto, ON, Canada
2015: MADE-in-KYIV, paintings, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014: Tollermania, ceramics installation and animation, Toller Cranston Studio/Gallery, SMA, GTO, Mexico
2009: The Canadiana Project, paintings, Station Community Gallery, Whitby, ON, Canada
2005: One-Stop-Transit, graphics, Die-HO Gallery, Westernhusen-Magdeburg, Germany
2004: Laluque at Coach House, paintings, graphics and ceramics, Coach House Studio/Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2003: Paintings and Ceramic Sculptures, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002: Paintings, Oder 24 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2001: New Collection, paintings and ceramics, Honchary Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2000: Another City, paintings, Galerie Im Flur, AMO Culture and Congress House, Magdeburg, Germany
2000: Steam Life, paintings, Artists in Residence Gallery, LaGrange, Georgia, the USA

Selected Group Shows

2022: Hold Fast, painting, along with Edward Burtynsky, Natalka Husar, William Kurelek. Curated by Olexander Wlasenko, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, Canada
2018: Plein Air, paintings, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2017: A-4 Ballpoint, ballpoint drawins, juried, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015: RECONNECTION, paintings, together with Natalia Makievski, McKiev Studio, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010: Handle with Care, ceramic installation, within Nora, Leaving Torvald, Blackcurrant Productions and Laluque Atelier gallery as a part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada
2008: Art in the Fall at 401 Richmond, Art in the Halls/Nuit Blanche, paintings, Toronto, ON, Canada
2008: Holly Fuss, Hotshot Gallery and Nobody's Business Theater, paintings, group exhibition within the play "Muhammad of Yorkville" by Johnnie Walker, Toronto, ON, Canada
2008: One Root, Many Routes, painting, KUMF Gallery, curated by Olexander Wlasenko, Toronto, ON, Canada
2006: The 0.7% show/fundraiser for HIV/Aids in Africa, curated by Antonia Lancaster, painting, The Propeller Centre For Visual Arts, Toronto, ON, Canada
2005: The 3th World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition , Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2003: Wendy Walgate and Natalia Laluque, ceramics, "New" Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2003: The 53rd International Ceramics Competition - The Exhibition: The shape between continuity and innovation, the International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
2003: The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2003: Decorative Art of Ukraine of the End of XXth Century, ceramics, the Ukranian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2000: 27th Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition, ceramics, The Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, the USA
2000: 5th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics CAIRO 2000, National Center for Fine Arts, Giza, Egypt
2000: 25th International Goudas Pottenbakkers Festival, ceramics, Gouda, Holland
1997: Ceramics, Graphics and Space: Galerie im Flur, ceramics, The AMO Culture and Congress House, Magdeburg, Germany
1997: Art-project Seasons, ceramics, EZ Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
1993: Tea-Pot-93, ceramics, the Exhibition Space of Art Council of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
1992: Studio-2, ceramics, Honchary Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine

Public Collections

2017: City of Ottawa, “Direct Purchase 2017” ( Le Breton Flats, The Pump House, Ottawa, December 21, 2016, painting)

Awards, Grants and Honorable Mentions

2017: Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (for Zoom In and Zoom Out)
2013: Craft Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council (for Tollermania)
2012: Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (for Tollermania)
2010: Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Nuit Blanche)
2009: Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Canadiana Project)
2007: Visual Arts Mid-Career Grant, Ontario Arts Council (Canadiana Project)
2005: Honorable Mention, The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2003: Honorable Mention, The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2001: First Prize, Type Art International Competition, Moscow, Russia

Commissions

2008: THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM: ceramic collection "Trypillia", coincided with exhibition Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: The Remarkable Trypilian Culture (5400-2700 BC), Toronto, ON, Canada

Catalogues

2009: The Canadiana Project, Station Community Gallery, curated by Olexander Wlasenko, Whitby, ON, Canada
2008: One Root, Many Routes, KUMF Gallery, The Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation, curated by Olexander Wlasenko, Toronto, ON, Canada
2005: The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2003: Decorative Art of Ukraine of the End of XXth Century, curated by Zoia Chegousova, Kiev, Ukraine
2003: 53rd International Ceramic Competition - The Exhibition "The shape between continuity and innovation", International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
2003: The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea (CEBIKO) International Competition, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
2000: AIM for ARTS, International Competition, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000: 5th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics Exhibition CAIRO, National Center for Fine Arts, Giza, Egypt
1998: The Art of Ukraine of the XXth Century, Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine

Selected Bibliography

August 2009: Taste Canadian/Canadian tastes: Natalie Laluque at Station Gallery, Whitby, Murray Whyte, the Toronto Star: Untitled, www.thestar.blogs.com
August 2009: A Fresh Perspective: The Canadiana Project, Andrea Carson, View on Canadian Art, www.viewoncanadianart.com
August 2009: The Canadiana Series, Mike Landry, Things of Desire - Canadian's Alternative Art Weekly, www.thingsofdesire.ca
volume 4 issue 12 2007: Cover story: Painting a masterpiece, Simona Siad, The Canadian Immigrant magazine, Canada
#63 2006: Natalia Laluque: Facets of Perfection on an Earthen Vessel, Tatiana Tkachenko, Ceramics Art and Perception magazine, Australia

In a Subway, 2015, oil on canvas, 27.5” x 35.4”
В метро, 2015, олія на полотні, 70x 90см
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Biography

Natalia Laluq is a Canadian and Ukrainian visual artist and ceramicist. She studied drawing and painting with Ukrainian artist Olga Krylova from 1983 to 1986. Natalia received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Arts from the Kyiv Department of the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute in 1993, specializing in book design and illustration. She studied advanced drawing and painting with Professor Florian Yuriev, a prominent figure in the Ukrainian art scene, as well as composition, art history, printmaking, design, and calligraphy.

From 1991 to 2003, Natalia worked with a group of ceramic artists in the Honchary (Potters) Art Cooperative in Kyiv. She has exhibited her painting and ceramic projects in Ukraine, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and has received several awards for her work.
Since immigrating to Canada in 2003, Natalia has been developing her Canadiana Project. In 2007, she was awarded a project grant from the Ontario Arts Council and exhibited the project at the Station Gallery in Whitby, Ontario.

Her ceramic practice has been dedicated to research into archaeological techniques, particularly the rich visual language of Trypillian culture. In 2008, the Royal Ontario Museum presented Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: The Remarkable Trypillian Culture (5400–2700 BC). The organizing committee commissioned Natalia to create 46 centerpiece works for the gala opening, along with several hundred small toys and figurines replicating original Trypillian artifacts.

In 2011, during a visit to San Miguel, Mexico, Natalia met Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skating champion, Olympic bronze medalist, painter, and avid collector of Mexican ceramics. Inspired by his life story, Natalia, with support from the Ontario Arts Council, conceived and produced the Tollermania project, which was presented at Toller Cranston’s studio in 2014.
The project consisted of a series of 452 handmade blue-and-white porcelain plates, presented as both an installation and a stop-motion animation film, with each plate serving as a key frame. A supporting documentary explored the artistic concept of Post-Industrial Hand-Labourism.

In 2015, following the Maidan Revolution and the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Natalia began a series of paintings reflecting the transformed world, including War Diary (2015) and War Batmen (2015–2016). Two works from this series were exhibited in April 2022 at the Station Gallery in Whitby in the group exhibition Hold Fast, alongside works by Edward Burtynsky, Natalka Husar, William Kurelek, and others.

Natalia often paints outdoors, working directly on site, following the plein-air traditions of the Group of Seven, David Milne, and the European school. In 2017, her plein-air painting The Pump House, Ottawa, 2016 was acquired for the permanent collection of the City of Ottawa. She continues to work in painting and ceramics and currently resides in Belleville, Ontario.