Ron Shuebrook
(1943–)
Ron Shuebrook
1943–
Ron Shuebrook (1943– ) is a Canadian artist born in Fort Monroe, Virginia. He currently lives in Guelph, Ontario, and Blandford, Nova Scotia.
Shuebrook holds a B.Sc. and an M.Ed. in art education from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, and an MFA from Kent State University in Ohio.
Shuebrook has taught at many institutions in the United States and Canada, including Kent State University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Ottawa School of Art, and the University of Guelph. He is the former President and Vice President of the Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCAD University) in Toronto. He is also a past president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Throughout his artistic career, Shuebrook developed a body of work that integrated the intellectual and aesthetic legacy of early and mid-20th Century modernism, while accommodating his critical thinking in an expressive form.
Shuebrook exhibits his work nationally and internationally. His works have been acquired by public galleries, museums, and corporations such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, MacDonald Stewart Art Center, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, among others. In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from Ontario College of Art and Design for his contributions to art and higher education in Canada and was awarded the Art Administrator’s Award of Distinction from the National Council of Art Administrators in 2006.
