ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision: Exhibition Tour with Maya Wilson-Sanchez
Join Maya Wilson-Sanchez for an interpretive tour of ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision, recorded at the opening reception on Saturday, January 20. Video: Jonathon Fulton
Baker Lake mother and daughters featured in upcoming art exhibition - NUNAVUT NEWS
The work of three Nunavut artists — a Baker Lake mother and her two daughters — will be the basis for a Textile Museum of Canada and Toronto Biennial of Art exhibition titled Double Vision.
Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at the Toronto Biennial of Art
Inspired by the multilayered histories of the city’s waterways, the biennial’s curatorial team has amassed an exciting array of contemporary Canadian and international artists, with a focus on Indigenous artists.
A Method of Attunement: In Conversation with Candice Hopkins | Femme Art Review
Interview by Adi Berardini The focus and mandate of The Toronto Biennial of Art is to “make contemporary art accessible to everyone.” From March 26 to June 5th, local, national…
Jessie Oonark | IAQ Profiles | Inuit Art Foundation
Jessie (Una) Oonark, OC, RCA, was born near Back River, Nunavut. Oonark lived the first fifty years of her life in camps throughout the region before settling in Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), NU with her
Years after her death, 27 of Jessie Oonark’s pristine drawings were discovered in a manila envelope in a basement. Athough already a celebrated artist, these lost drawings confirmed Oonark’s vitality and confidence as an artist.
Jessie Oonark at Textile Museum of Canada – Toronto Biennial of Art
Jessie Oonark grew up north of Baker Lake, surviving extreme hardship, starvation, and the death of four of her thirteen children. Her father and grandfather were shamans, and within this belief, it was forbidden to draw and create likenesses as this might attract the spirit world. From the beginning, predating her move to Baker Lake, […]
Janet Kigusiuq | IAQ Profiles | Inuit Art Foundation
Janet Kigusiuq was a multidisciplinary artist born in the Back River region, NU. She began her artistic practice In the mid 1960s in Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), NU. Kigusiuq experimented with many diffe
Janet Kigusiuq at Textile Museum of Canada – Toronto Biennial of Art
Janet Kigusiuq’s practice explores the relationship between representation and abstraction. Like her mother, Jessie Oonark, Janet was born in the Back River area some 200 kilometres north of Qamani’tuaq. She lived through the starvation period of the 1950s before their relocation to Qamani’tuaq and was married at the age of eleven, likely as a means […]
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk | IAQ Profiles | Inuit Art Foundation
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk was a renowned artist based in Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), NU, and is one of the best-known artists of her generation. Mamnguqsualuk was a gifted storyteller, who created narrativ
Victoria Mamnguqsualuk at Textile Museum of Canada – Toronto Biennial of Art
Over the course of her career, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk often returned to the same character, Kiviuq (alternatively spelled Qiviuq, Keeveok, or Kivioq, and, in Greenland, Qooqa) in her work. A migrant, Kiviuq travels through different lands as well as through different times and cultures. He is one of the oldest figures in Inuit oral tradition, and […]
The Nomadic and the Monstrous: The Stories of Victoria Mamnguqsualuk | Inuit Art Quarterly
With a body of work that continues to speak to contemporary issues of displacement, scarcity and community, this Feature explores the breadth of Mamnguqsualuk’s depictions of the legendary Inuit wanderer Kiviuq as well as scenes of horrific and...
Felt has played a key role in the practices of a number of contemporary artists, from Robert Morris to Rosemarie Trockel. But for indigenous populations in cold climates around the…
For 5,000 years, the people and culture known throughout the world as “Inuit” have occupied the vast territory stretching from the shores of the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia, east across Alaska and Canada, to the southeastern coast of Greenland. It is here, based on our ability to use the physical environment and living resources of this geographic region known as the Arctic, where our culture developed and our history unfolded. Inuit are an original people of much of the land now known as Canada, and our history represents an important and fascinating story. It is not just a story about an early chapter of Canadian history.