Michael Hosaluk
PERMANENT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada
City of Regina Civic Art Collection, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Collection, Buckingham Palace, England
Idemitsu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Zhao Xiu, Governor of Jilin Province, China
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michael Hosaluk, a self-taught wood turner, creates work that covers a wide range of objects and materials including functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces. His work is humorous and elegant, possesses character and gesture and is full of reference to architecture, nature and culture. Hosaluk's work has been exhibited throughout Canada, in Europe, China, Japan, Australia and the United States.
He has lectured and demonstrated extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Norway and Israel. In 2003, he participated in the French Association of Turned Wood's conference Artistic Woodturning Worldwide in Puy St. Martin, France. Hosaluk has also been the coordinator of the biennial International Wood Furniture/Turning Conference since 1982.
In 2004 he was awarded The Lieutenant Governors Award for Innovation in the Arts. Hosaluk is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and earlier this year became an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Saskatchewan Crafts Council. He was active on the Steering Committee to establish the Furniture Society of North America, and is on its Advisory Board.
And in 2006, Hosaluk was named the 29th recipient of the prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My love of woodworking is not only for the beauty and mystery of the material, but also in the inventing of new techniques and processes to create objects.
The materials I use relate to the objects I make. At times a piece of salvaged wood will become a starting point of design. Other times, a design will call for a piece of wood with incredible grain. Using nondescript wood allows me to approach the objects as a three dimensional canvas. Here, I can apply a variety of surface design techniques to express an idea.
My work tells stories from my life, places I've been. People I've met, architecture, our environment. These stories are interwoven into the objects I create. Craft goes beyond the pleasure of our senses and deals not only with aesthetics, but social and ideological lives.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada
City of Regina Civic Art Collection, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Collection, Buckingham Palace, England
Idemitsu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Zhao Xiu, Governor of Jilin Province, China
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michael Hosaluk, a self-taught wood turner, creates work that covers a wide range of objects and materials including functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces. His work is humorous and elegant, possesses character and gesture and is full of reference to architecture, nature and culture. Hosaluk's work has been exhibited throughout Canada, in Europe, China, Japan, Australia and the United States.
He has lectured and demonstrated extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Norway and Israel. In 2003, he participated in the French Association of Turned Wood's conference Artistic Woodturning Worldwide in Puy St. Martin, France. Hosaluk has also been the coordinator of the biennial International Wood Furniture/Turning Conference since 1982.
In 2004 he was awarded The Lieutenant Governors Award for Innovation in the Arts. Hosaluk is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and earlier this year became an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Saskatchewan Crafts Council. He was active on the Steering Committee to establish the Furniture Society of North America, and is on its Advisory Board.
And in 2006, Hosaluk was named the 29th recipient of the prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My love of woodworking is not only for the beauty and mystery of the material, but also in the inventing of new techniques and processes to create objects.
The materials I use relate to the objects I make. At times a piece of salvaged wood will become a starting point of design. Other times, a design will call for a piece of wood with incredible grain. Using nondescript wood allows me to approach the objects as a three dimensional canvas. Here, I can apply a variety of surface design techniques to express an idea.
My work tells stories from my life, places I've been. People I've met, architecture, our environment. These stories are interwoven into the objects I create. Craft goes beyond the pleasure of our senses and deals not only with aesthetics, but social and ideological lives.