Georgiana Uhlyarik


Georgiana Uhlyarik-Nicolae, current Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, was born in Bucharest, Romania as the only child of Mariana Nicolae, an architect and Nicolae Uhlyarik, MSc in Chemical Engineering.

Career

Uhlyarik is Canadian Art curator in the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department. Uhlyarik was part of the team or led teams that created numerous exhibitions on subjects such as Betty Goodwin, Michael Snow, Kathleen Munn among others and collaborated with art organizations like Tate Modern, and the Jewish Museum, New York. 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 US and Brasil, which Uhlyarik co-curated with P.J. Brownlee, curator of the Terra Foundation for American Art and Valeria Piccoli chief curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil won the 2016 Award of Excellencel of the Association Art Museum Curators. Uhlyarik worked on the 2017 AGO Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective which was both an artistic achievement and a commercial success. Uhlyarik teaches courses on Canadian Art, is an outspoken advocate for the promotion of women artists and curators as well as publicizing of Canadian indigenous art. In 2018 she co-curated TUNIRRUSIANGIT, an AGO exhibition of works by Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak.