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Ilana Manolson (b. 1956) is a Canadian-born contemporary artist. Though her current work consists primarily of paintings, she has a strong background in printmaking and has also worked in sculpture and installation.

“Manolson’s landscape paintings emerge from her own direct, almost daily experience of nature and her reflections on time and place.” "Combining realist elements with fields of color abstraction, she often depicts her subjects on the verge of change as it swings its pendulum between order and disorder." She currently lives and works in Concord, Massachusetts.

Life
Manolson was born in in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. She studied art at Dawson College in Montreal in 1976, botany and art at Goddard College in Vermont in 1978, and then went on to receive a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1982. Upon graduation from RISD, she became a partner in Artist’s Proof (1982-1984), an intaglio studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts that has been recognized for its role in the development of printmaking in Boston. She was also the director at a monoprint studio in Boston, Massachusetts from 1984-1987.

Career
Manolson has exhibited in the US and internationally since 1981.

Over the course of her career she has been awarded many prestigious grants, awards and fellowships. Most notably, she participated in a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff National Park; Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY; Ballinglen Ireland Artist Residency; and she was an two-time artist fellow in painting at Mass Cultural Council.

Her work is held in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA; the RISD Museum, the Berkeley Museum, the Danforth Museum , the De Cordova Museum, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Boston Public Library.

She has curated and juried shows for Concord Art, Mass Cultural Council, and Rocky Neck Art Colony

Groups and Organizations
Manolson has been involved in art activism and collaborative art efforts including Artist's Think About Water, alongside Dianne Burko and Fredericka Foster; She was one of the original founders of Brickbottom Artists Association ; and has been on the board at Concord Art.