Karin Bubaš (born 1976 in

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) is a contemporary Canadian artist known for her work in various media including photography, painting, and drawing.

Early life

Bubaš grew up in North Vancouver and graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Artwork

Karin Bubaš began exhibiting her photographic artwork in 1997. Her work was included in several group shows including ''after photography'' curated by Vancouver photographer

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. Bubaš' first solo exhibition, ''Happy Friday Night,'' was held at Vancouver's Artspeak Gallery in 1999. Her next major series of work, ''Leon's Palace,'' was completed in 2001 and depicts images from a Vancouver

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. Works from ''Leon's Palace'' are owned by the Vancouver Art Gallery as well as noted Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland, who included images from the series in his 2002 book

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. From 2003 to the present, Bubaš' most widely recognized bodies of photographic work include ''Ivy House,'' featuring images from the interior of a Victorian English row house shortly after the owner had died; ''Studies in Landscape and Wardrobe,'' a long-running series featuring costumed and staged female figures in park-like settings; and ''Colour Field,'' a series that includes both photographs and paintings and explores the relationship between the two mediums. Works from ''Ivy House'' and ''Studies in Landscape and Wardrobe'' were included in Bubaš major solo exhibition ''A short history of subjects and objects,'' curated by Catherine Bedard and held at the Canadian Cultural Centre in

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in 2008. In 2013, photographs by Bubaš were installed at a Vancouver SkyTrain station as part of Capture Photography Festival.

''The Hills''

In 2009 Bubaš created a series of pastel drawings entitled ''With Friends Like These...'' depicting characters from the

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reality series '' The Hills'' including

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, Whitney Port, Heidi Montag, and others. The series was originally inspired by pastel works by Paul Cesar Helleu that depicted attractive and famous women in the high ranks of Paris society during the late 1800s. Images from ''With Friends Like These...'' were widely published and appeared in ''

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'', and on numerous blogs and websites. The works from this series were presented in a solo exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2009.

Collections

* Vancouver Art Gallery * Glenbow Museum *

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Select exhibitions

* ''Pictures from Here,'' Vancouver Art Gallery (2017) * ''Art School High,'
Gordon Smith Gallery
North Vancouver (2017) * ''The Poetics of Space,'' Vancouver Art Gallery (2015) * ''Scenes from the Paper Forest'' (solo),

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, Coquitlam (2014) * ''Emily Carr and the Theatre of Transcendence'', Vancouver Art Gallery (2012) * ''With Friends Like These…'' (solo), Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2009) * ''The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social,'' curated and organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery (2008), and touring to the

, Coquitlam (2009)
Kamloops Art Gallery
(2009), an
Kelowna Art Gallery
(2010) * ''Home Theatre,'' SFU Galleries, Burnaby (2006) * ''Happy Friday Night,'' (solo), Artspeak, Vancouver (1999)

References

External links

Karin Bubaš websiteKarin Bubaš at Monte Clark Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bubaš, Karin 1976 births Living people 21st-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Artists from Vancouver Canadian painters Canadian photographers Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni