of fictional female identities, including poems by Janice Kulyk Keefer written in the voices of the characters in the paintings. 1995-1996. Black Sea Blue Organized by the Rosemont Art Gallery in Regina and toured to Garnet Press Gallery (Toronto), the Douglas Udell galleries in Vancouver and Edmonton, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon (now Remai Modern). 1991-1992. True Confessions Organized by the Woltjen/Udell Gallery – shown in Vancouver and Edmonton – and toured to Garnet Press Gallery (Toronto), and Plug-In, Winnipeg. Catalogue essayists Robert Enright and Donna Lypchuk examining the “psycho-social awareness” and “feminism” in Husar’s paintings 1988-1989. Milk and Blood Organized by The Floating Curatorial Gallery at Women in Focus in Vancouver, which toured to Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre in Winnipeg, Garnet Press Gallery (Toronto), Forest City Gallery the Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre in Sudbury, Latitude 53, Edmonton and The Station Gallery, Whitby. Essayist Grace Thomson defined the themes in Husar's paintings “as the contradictions of ethnicity and gender expectations and describes how this work addresses patriarchal ethnic culture." Selected group exhibitions 2015-2018. Living Building Thinking: art and expressionism, organized and circulated by the McMaster Museum of Art. 2015-2016. The Ukrainian Diaspora: Women Artists 1908–2015, The Ukrainian Museum New York. 2016. Reality Check, Contemporary art in Ukraine since its independence, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago. Works in Canadian public collections National Gallery of Canada Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Hamilton Art Gallery of Alberta Beaverbrook Art Gallery Canada Council Art Bank The Canadian Museum of History Glenbow Museum Mackenzie Art Gallery The Robert McLaughlin Gallery McMaster Museum of Art Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary Winnipeg Art Gallery Further reading Kulyk-Keefer, Janice. Dark Ghost in the Corner: Imagining Ukrainian-Canadian Identity. Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 2005. Melnyk, George. First Person Plural. Frontenac House, 2018. External links Artist page at the Canadian Art Database Documentary film: Natalka Husar, The Life of the Artist. Tickle and Scratch Productions, 2013 References 1951 births Living people 20th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian painters 21st-century Canadian women artists Painters from New Jersey American emigrants to Canada American people of Ukrainian descent Canadian people of Ukrainian descent Rutgers University alumni