Michael Hosaluk
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b. 1954, Invermey, Saskatchewan, Canada
SELECTED 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
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Los Angeles Art Show, represented by del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Restful Places- Cremations Urns and Memorial Objects, AAW Gallery of Wood Art,
St. Paul, MN
2008 A Perfect Marriage: Wood & Color, CWA Exhibit, SOFA, Chicago, IL
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
Turned Wood-Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007-08 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick
Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007 Containment, Mendel Art Gallery
2005-06 Turned Wood-Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004-06 Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, Touring
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
2005 Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
Scratching the Surface, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005
A Nation of Enchanted Form, Touring
AAW Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN
Center for Furniture Craftsman, Rockport, ME
Turned & Sculptured Work, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Masters of Wood Art II & III, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville Tennessee,
2004 New Work in a New Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmen, Rockport, ME
Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beneath the Bark: 25 Years of Woodturning, Brigham Young University Museum of Art,
Provo, UT
2002-04 The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Copia,
The American Center for Wine, Food and Arts, Napa, CA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2003 Materials and Contemporary Illusions: Innovations in Lathe Turning, Lynne Tender
Bignell Gallery, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
Put A Lid On It: Containing Human Experience, American Association of Woodturners,
Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA
A Tribute to Rude Osolnik: An Exhibition of Museum of Arts + Design, Louisville, KY
Cabinets of Curiosity, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
CollaboratioNZ, Artist Collaboration and Demonstration, Whangarei, New Zealand
Journees Mondiales: Tournage d'Art Sur Bois, Exhibitor and Lecturer, Puy St. Martin,
France
The Teapot Redefined, SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL
2002 Surface + Form, Keynote Speaker, Craftwest Gallery, Perth, Australia
Prairie Roots, Progressive Thoughts, Demonstrator, The Furniture Society, Madison, WI
Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors' Choice, Collectors of Wood Art Forum, SOFA, Chicago, IL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008 New Masters of Woodturning: Expanding the Boundaries of Wood Art. Martin, Terry &
Wallace, Kevin. Fox Chapel Publishing, East Petersburg, PA.
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from The Wornick
Collection. Kangas, Matthew; Muniz, Julie & Ward, Gerald. MFA Publications,
Boston, MA.
2006 The Penland Book of Woodworking. Lark Books, Sterling Publications, New York, NY.
2004 Woodwork, February
Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, Hudson Hills Press
2003 Meilach, Dona Z., Wood Art Today: Furniture, Vessels, Sculpture,
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
American Craft, Cover, June/July
2002 Hosaluk, Michael, Scratching the Surface, Guild Publishing
Woodwork, August
Ontario Craft, Winter
Woodturning, November
American Craft, February/March
2001 Challenge VI-Roots: Insights & Inspirations in Contemporary Turned Objects,
Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
Celebrating Boxes, Lloyd/Crawford
Fine Woodworking, 25th Anniversary Edition
2000 Woodturning, November
1999 Leier, Peters, Wallace, Contemporary Turned Wood, Hand Books Press
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.
SELECTED 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
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Los Angeles Art Show, represented by del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Restful Places- Cremations Urns and Memorial Objects, AAW Gallery of Wood Art,
St. Paul, MN
2008 A Perfect Marriage: Wood & Color, CWA Exhibit, SOFA, Chicago, IL
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
Turned Wood-Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007-08 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick
Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007 Containment, Mendel Art Gallery
2005-06 Turned Wood-Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004-06 Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, Touring
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
2005 Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
Scratching the Surface, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005
A Nation of Enchanted Form, Touring
AAW Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN
Center for Furniture Craftsman, Rockport, ME
Turned & Sculptured Work, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Masters of Wood Art II & III, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville Tennessee,
2004 New Work in a New Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmen, Rockport, ME
Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beneath the Bark: 25 Years of Woodturning, Brigham Young University Museum of Art,
Provo, UT
2002-04 The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Copia,
The American Center for Wine, Food and Arts, Napa, CA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2003 Materials and Contemporary Illusions: Innovations in Lathe Turning, Lynne Tender
Bignell Gallery, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
Put A Lid On It: Containing Human Experience, American Association of Woodturners,
Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA
A Tribute to Rude Osolnik: An Exhibition of Museum of Arts + Design, Louisville, KY
Cabinets of Curiosity, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
CollaboratioNZ, Artist Collaboration and Demonstration, Whangarei, New Zealand
Journees Mondiales: Tournage d'Art Sur Bois, Exhibitor and Lecturer, Puy St. Martin,
France
The Teapot Redefined, SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL
2002 Surface + Form, Keynote Speaker, Craftwest Gallery, Perth, Australia
Prairie Roots, Progressive Thoughts, Demonstrator, The Furniture Society, Madison, WI
Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors' Choice, Collectors of Wood Art Forum, SOFA, Chicago, IL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008 New Masters of Woodturning: Expanding the Boundaries of Wood Art. Martin, Terry &
Wallace, Kevin. Fox Chapel Publishing, East Petersburg, PA.
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from The Wornick
Collection. Kangas, Matthew; Muniz, Julie & Ward, Gerald. MFA Publications,
Boston, MA.
2006 The Penland Book of Woodworking. Lark Books, Sterling Publications, New York, NY.
2004 Woodwork, February
Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, Hudson Hills Press
2003 Meilach, Dona Z., Wood Art Today: Furniture, Vessels, Sculpture,
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
American Craft, Cover, June/July
2002 Hosaluk, Michael, Scratching the Surface, Guild Publishing
Woodwork, August
Ontario Craft, Winter
Woodturning, November
American Craft, February/March
2001 Challenge VI-Roots: Insights & Inspirations in Contemporary Turned Objects,
Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
Celebrating Boxes, Lloyd/Crawford
Fine Woodworking, 25th Anniversary Edition
2000 Woodturning, November
1999 Leier, Peters, Wallace, Contemporary Turned Wood, Hand Books Press
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.