In recognition of his work, Cicansky was appointed member of the Order of Canada and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and was awarded the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, as well as the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture.
13 Facts About Victor Cicansky
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Victor Cicansky's work is found in the National Gallery of Canada, Gardiner Museum, Burlington Art Centre, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
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Victor Cicansky was born in Regina, Saskatchewan on February 12,1935.
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In 1967 while attending a summer workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, Victor Cicansky met Funk art sculptor Robert Arneson who convinced him to attend the University of California, Davis.
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At Davis, Victor Cicansky was awarded the Kingsley Annual Award for Sculpture and he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1970.
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Victor Cicansky then returned to Saskatchewan to teach art education at the University of Regina, and began to explore the imagery of his youth in figurative narrativion.
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In 1974, Victor Cicansky moved "back to the land" and converted a former school in Craven into a studio.
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Victor Cicansky created the bronze The Garden of the Mind at the College of Agriculture in Saskatoon as well as a gateway sculpture and gazebo art piece for the Grow Regina Community Gardens.
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In 1989 Victor Cicansky was commissioned to create a gift, presented by Premier Grant Devine, to the Duke and Duchess of York.
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In recognition for his artistic achievement, Cicansky was awarded the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
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Victor Cicansky taught at the University of California at Davis, Banff Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Regina's Faculty of Education and Visual Arts Department.
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Victor Cicansky retired as Professor Emeritus in 1994 and, in 2007, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Regina.
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In 2004 a book on his life and work written by Donald Kerr, The Garden of Art: Vic Victor Cicansky, Sculptor, was published.