• born in 1924 in Kiev, Ukraine
• immigrated to Montréal, Québec in 1948
• studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, Austria (1943-1948); studied ceramics at the École du Meuble in Montréal, Québec (1955-1956); studied etching at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec (1958 to 1959)

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Luba Genush's Europa, a blockprint and collage work that suggests the
chaos and reordering of Europe after World War II, was shown at the
Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art in 1961. From this starting point,
her art works, mainly prints and mixed media collage, have come to explore the relationship between art, people, and the world of technology. When Henry Lehmann interviewed her for the Montréal Gazette in 1992, he noted "the artist, who says she 'loves computers,' relates to technology the way one might be attracted to a beautiful but lethal serpent." Genush juxtaposes images of the body with images of modern machinery and computer-generated graphics, plotting what she feels is the love-hate tie between humanity and technology. Her preoccupation with technology extends back to the 1960s, when she was described in the Montréal Gazette as an artist who had been spending a lot of time in scrap yards, looking for the intriguing pieces of metal that would form parts of her latest sculptural work (Donna Flint, 1966). In 1983, she created the mural, The World of Neurology for the Montréal Neurological Institute. In 1992 Genush travelled to Moscow for an exhibition called Montréal-Moscou, which also featured two other female Montréal artists having Soviet connections, Marina Popova and Natasha Wrangel. All three women were originally from the former Soviet Union, representing three different generations of those who had left it behind. Genush considers her ties to Kiev, where she experienced the influence of Byzantine and Russian icons, to be strong, indicating "this influence, as an undercurrent, remained with me throughout my career as an artist" (1998). Writing for the exhibition catalogue, Genush revealed: "I am interested in exploring a feeling for the past, which I try to bring into the present by mixing figures of previous cultures with the imagery of my present-day sensibility. In the formal aspect, I try to combine the abstract with realism" (1992). A powerful example is her 1991 Techno-Woman, a work nine by six feet, which features six nude women lined up as though on an assembly line, facing front, their stomachs printed over with images of geometry and machinery, as if replacing their internal organs with robotics. The work is a beautiful yet frightening depiction of the melding of humanity with machine as we confront the technology we have created. Genush is a member of the Societé des artistes professionnels du Québec, the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts, the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and the Association des graveurs du Québec.

Galerie Libre, Montréal, Québec

VII Biennale de Gravure de Sarcelles
Sarcelles, France

Society of Canadian Artists
O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Silver Anniversary, Society of Canadian Artists
Toronto, Ontario

"Montréal - Celebration" 1992, Project by Studio Graphica 3710 Inc.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec

IV Premio de Debuxo Artistico "Jenaro Perez Villaamil," Ferrol 1990
Spain

VII Premio de Grabado "Maximo Ramos,"
Museo Municipal Bello Piñeiro, Ferrol, Spain

One of a Kind
International Graphic Art Foundation, Darien, Connecticut and New York, New York

Concours: Dans 10 ans l'an 2000
Maison de la culture, Montréal, Québec

Third Jenaro Pérez Prize for Artistic Drawing
Museo Municipal Bello Piñeiro, Ferrol, Spain

VI Premio de Grabado "Maximo Ramos"
Museo Municipal Bello Piñeiro, Ferrol and Madrid, Spain

International Miniprint Exhibition
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

15th International Independent Exhibition
Kanagawa, Japan

First International Biennial of Prints
Campinas Sào Paulo, Brazil

Hanga Annual '86, Japan Print Association
Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Montréal Visits Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

2nd International Biennial Print Exhibition ROC
Taipei, Taiwan

11th International Independent Exhibition of Prints
Kanagawa, Japan

Exhibition "Studio Graphica, 3710 Inc"
La Chasse Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Footprint, the Northwest International Small Format Print Exhibition
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington

Salon des Métiers d'Art du Québec, Montréal, Québec

Spectrum Canada
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Montréal, Québec

Imprint '76
Galerie d'art centre Saidye Bronfman/Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal, Québec; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Association of Alumni
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

Graphex 3
Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario

Vth International Graphic Biennial
Cracow, Poland

Ibizigrafio '74
La Bienal de Ibiza, Spain

Collage 2, National Film Board
Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, Québec

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Commonwealth Art Gallery, London, England

Canadian Printmakers' Showcase
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers, 58th Annual Exhibition
Montréal, Québec

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

Graphics Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

Salon des métiers d'art du Québec, Montréal, Québec

IIIrd International Biennial of Prints
Bradford City Gallery and Museums, Bradford, England

Gravures du Québec
Stable Gallery, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec

IIIième Biennale Internationale de l'Estampe
Paris, France

Exhibition in the Offices of Québec's Prime Minister, from the Collection of the Musée d'Art Contemporain

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers, 56th Annual Exhibition
London Gallery and Art Museum, London, Ontario

10th Anniversary
Thomas More Institute, Montréal, Québec

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 91st Annual Exhibition
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Thornhill, Ontario

Premio Internazionale Biella per l'Incisione
Biella, Italy

International Exhibition of Graphics
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Exhibition of Canadian Prints
Pratt Graphics Center, New York, New York

Exhibition of Prints Sponsored by the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Canadian Embassy
Washington, D.C.

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

Québec Hadassah Art Auction
Québec, Québec

Salon des métiers d'art du Québec, Montréal, Québec

Canadian Printmakers' Showcase
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

IIIrd International Graphic Biennial
Cracow, Poland

Canadian Graphics
Toronto and London, Ontario

Color Prints of the Americas
State Museum of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey

Inaugural Exhibition
The Whitney Gallery, Montréal

IInd International Exhibition of Original Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia

Canadian Printmakers' Showcase
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Toronto, Ontario

Canadian Printmakers' Showcase
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

Canadian Graphics '69
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Canadian Contemporary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Herman Abramowitz Chapter of Hadassah, Montréal, Québec

The Art of the Printmaker
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Québec

Expo '67
United Nations Pavilion, Reception Room, Montréal, Québec

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Canadian Society of Graphic Arts
Sarnia Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario

Dimension 2½
Stable Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Toronto, Ontario

Annual Exhibition of Ladies Committee
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Concours Artistique, Province de Québec
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