Biography
Orysia Sinitowich-Gorski
- Born
- Hafford, Saskatchewan
- Third generation Ukrainian Canadian
- Education
- Hafford, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg
- Post-secondary education, nursing, and medical technology
- Studied art under the instruction of nationally and internationally-renowned artists Taras Koral and Nikola Bjelajac
- Personal
- Accomplished in a variety of artistic genres, including painting, drawing, and music (vocal and instrumental)
Art Exhibits
Solo:
Oct 2007XXII Ukrainian Canadian Congress [UCC]
Fairmont Hotel
Winnipeg, Manitoba
June 21-24, 2007
UMANA - XXXII Assembly
Soyuzivka Resort and Convention Centre
Kerhonkson, N. Y.
August 13-17, 2007
Folklorama, Kiev Pavillion
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Sept 15-27, 2007
Ukrainian Museum of Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Sept 30, 2007
Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
April 1-2, 2006
St Katherine Orthodox Church Cultural Centre
Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota
October 1-3, 2004
The Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Group:
Convergence
Forum Art Annual Art Exhibition
Winnipeg, Manitoba
June, 1998
June, 1999
June, 2000
June, 2001
June, 2002
June, 2003
June, 2004
June, 2005
June, 2006
Winnipeg City Hall
Local Artists' Exhibit
Winnipeg, Manitoba
2001
Ukrainian Women's League
Ukrainian Women's Art Exhibit
Winnipeg, Manitoba
1979
- Her body of work includes portraits, still life, and themes of interest and concern to the artist (both serious and whimsical)
- Particularly striking are works that include Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian themes
- Media: oil, acrylic, ink, pastel, coloured pencil, watercolour
Television interviews
- November 2004: Shaw Television, Winnipeg. Feature interview with the artist about her artistic inspirations, such as the raw emotion of her love for Ukraine, for example in Democracy? (2003), Holodomor (2004), Lost Icon of Chornobyl (2004), and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (2004).
- August, 2006: Hutsul Festival, Pechenizhen. Ukraine.
Also...
- November 16, 2008 - Holodomor-Genocide II presented to the heritage minister Mr. Eric Robinson to be exhibited in the Manitoba Legislative Building {permanent art collection}
- Leo's Windows (2002), portraying world-famous Ukrainian sculptor Leo Mol, set against the backdrop of the stained glass windows of his design in Winnipeg's Sts Volodymyr and Olga Cathedral, currently on display and part of the permanent collection of the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Holodomor - Famine-Genocide (2003), depicting Ukraine's famine-genocide (1933) victims, has been reserved for display at the Canadian Human Rights Museum.