Georgiana Uhlyarik-Nicolae, also known as Georgiana Uhlyarik (born 1972) is a Romanian-born Canadian art curator, art historian, and teacher. She is currently the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the

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(AGO). She has been part of the team or led teams that created numerous exhibitions, on subjects such as

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, and

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among others and collaborated with art organizations such as the

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, and the Jewish Museum, New York. Uhlyarik won the 2023 Toronto Book Award for her book ''Moving the Museum'', authored with

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Biography

Uhlyarik was born in

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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''. 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

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and Valeria Piccoli chief curator at the

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, Brazil won the 2016 Award of Excellence of the

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(AAMC). Uhlyarik authored the essay on "Letendre in Toronto" in the catalogue of the AGO retrospective of

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in 2017 and in the same year worked on the 2017

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retrospective which was both an artistic achievement and a commercial success. In 2018 she co-curated TUNIRRUSIANGIT, an AGO exhibition of works by

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and Tim Pitsiulak. She also co-curated and contributed to the catalogue of ''Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940'' (2021), co-organized by the

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Frankfurt, the

, and the

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. Uhlyarik teaches courses on Canadian art at the

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where she is an Associate Professor, is an outspoken advocate for the promotion of women artists and curators as well as publicizing of Canadian indigenous art. Uhlyarik is the author of ''Kathleen Munn: Life & Work'' (2014), published by the Art Canada Institute. She wrote an article on Munn in ''Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement''.

Awards and honours

* 2016: 2016 Award of Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators for ''Picturing the Americas'' * 2023: Toronto book Award with

for ''Moving the Museum''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uhlyarik, Georgiana Canadian women curators 1972 births Living people Romanian emigrants to Canada Canadian art curators Women art historians Art museum people Canadian women historians Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women non-fiction writers