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Sculptor, b. 1933 - d. 2014

KIAWAK ASHOONA (KIUGAK; KIOWAK; KEEOWER; KIOGA)
Born: September 16, 1933 Male E7-1103
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking
EXHIBITIONS:
May 1953 Eskimo Carvings: Coronation Exhibition
Gimpel Fils
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
1959 Northern Exhibit
Stratford Festival
Stratford, Ontario
1960, 1963 Cape Dorset Graphics
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1962 Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker)
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1963 ART ESKIMO
Galerie de France
Paris, France
(illustrated catalogue)
1965 Four Artists from Cape Dorset
Lippel Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
1967 Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative
Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1967 The Eskimo Art Collection of the
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)


January - February 1967 Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo
Prints & Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada,
in cooperation with the Canadian
Eskimo Art Committee
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
April - May 1967 Carvings and Prints by the Family
of Pitseolak
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
1968 Eskimo Sculpture
Man & His World, Arctic Pavilion
Montreal, Quebec
November - Dec 1968 Eskimo Carvings
Waddington
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1969 Arctic Art
Lippel Gallery, presented at Place
Bonaventure
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
1970 Mythology in Stone
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - July 1970 Sculpture
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
a competition/exhibition organized as
a contribution to the Centennial of the
N.W.T.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1970 The Woodget Collection of Eskimo Art
and Artifacts
Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Art
Halifax, Nova Scotia
(catalogue)
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1971 The Art of the Eskimo
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1971 Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the
Collection of York University
Art Gallery of York University
Downsview, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1973 Cultures of the Sun and the Snow:
Indian and Eskimo Art of the Americas
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
held at "Man and His World"
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1973 - January 1974
Eskimo Sculpture (and Drawings)
Waddington Galleries
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
August 1974 Ten Masterworks Exhibition Artists
Gallery of the Arctic
Victoria, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

October - Nov 1974 Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1975 Cape Dorset - Selected Sculpture from the
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1976 Selections from the Toronto-Dominion
Collection of Eskimo Art
National Arts Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
November 1976 Hunters of Old
Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario
1977 The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan 1977 - Jun 1982 The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1978 Looking South
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

October 1978 Kiawak, Kumwartok, Kaka:
The Sons of Pitseolak Ashoona - Cape Dorset
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
Oct - Nov 1978 Eskimo Art
Embankment Gallery
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine
Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/
Dr. Harry Winrob Collection
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1979 Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene B. Power
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1979 Taleelayu-Sedna: An exhibition of Eskimo
Art derived from the legends of the
sea goddess
Gallery One
Toronto, Ontario

October 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterwork
Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Feb 1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
January - March 1980 Cape Dorset
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1980 Collectors' Choice - An Exhibition of
Important Inuit Sculpture
Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
February - March 1980 First Annual Collectors' Invitational
Exhibition
Inuk 1/Eskimo Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1980 Inuit Sculpture Prints & Drawings
Theo Waddington Galleries
Montreal, Quebec
1981 Cape Dorset Sculptors and Their Sculpture
The Inuit Art Collection
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bacon
Manchester, Connecticut, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)

May - June 1981 Four Cape Dorset Sculptors
Theo Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
September 1981 The Year of the Bear
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
September - October 1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
June - October 1982 Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
May 1983 Out of the Depths: Whalebone Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
May 1983 - April 1985 Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from
the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1983 Fantasy and Stylization - Cape Dorset
Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario

Feb 1984 - Jun 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and Canadian
Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1984 The Oral Tradition
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
June - August 1984 Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
October 1984 Images of the Far North
Studio Art Gallery,
State University of New York
Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
Feb 1985 - Apr 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Department of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada, Ottawa,
presented by Commerzbank
Frankfurt, Germany
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1985 Gems in Arctic Jade: Sculpture of the Inuit
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
October 1985 Our Hoods are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

December 1985 Masterwork Sculpture 1985
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 Baffin Island Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 - Feb 1988 Selections from the John and Mary Robertson
Collection of Inuit Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1988 Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture
Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
June - September 1988 The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
October 1988 Opening Exhibition
Nunavut Fine Arts Limited
Toronto, Ontario
November 1988 Primitive Art from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Nov 1988 - Apr 1989 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January 1989 Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art
from the Northwest Territories
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
Jan - Feb 1989 Images of the Far North
Arctic Artistry
(held at the Erie County Fairgrounds)
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
April 1989 Master Works from the Early Years
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
June 1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition
of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks
Presented by the Amway Corporation
at the United Nations General Assembly
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Sep 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
Sep - Oct 1990 Through the Eyes of the Shaman
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
November 1990 Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1990 - Jan 1991 A Family Tradition: Inuit Art
from Canada's Arctic
Presented by Arctic Inuit Art at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

February - June 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Exhibition (first exhibition)
Vancouver Inuit Art Society
Vancouver, British Columbia
May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and
Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
June - September 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Exhibition (second exhibition)
Vancouver Inuit Art Society
Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov - Dec 1991 Inuit Sculpture: Displayed in Conjunction with
the 1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection
Muscarelle Museum of Art
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
Dec 1991 - Mar 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
Feb - Sep 1992 Inuit Art: Drawings and Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
May 1992 Our Hoods Are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1992 Inuit Sculpture--New Acquisitions
Pucker Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)

December 1992 Small Sculptures by Great Artists I
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
March - June 1993 Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinberg, Ontario
Nov 1993 - Mar 1994 The Inuit Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1993 Small Sculptures by Great Artists II
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May - August 1994 On Collectors and Collecting:
Selections from the Herb & Cece Schreiber
Family Collection
The Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
October 1994 Sculpture of the Inuit:
Major Works by the Masters of Stone
Maslak McLeod Canadian Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
Jan - Feb 1995 The Collector's Eye
Inuit Art from Private Collections
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, USA
(illustrated brochure)

March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
May - Sep 1995 Keeping Our Stories Alive:
An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts
from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
March 1980 Kiawak Ashoona
Theo Waddington
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1980 Kiawak Ashoona - Stone Sculpture
Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November 1985 Kiawak Ashoona: aus Cape Dorset, Baffin-Insel,
Nordkanada
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
August - Sep 1986 Kiugak Ashoona - Recent Sculpture
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

May 1991 Kiawak
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
COLLECTIONS:
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, U.S.A.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, U.S.A.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
1959 Kiawak attended the opening of the exhibit 'Eskimo Carvers at Stratford',
which was held during the 1959 Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario.
1971 Travelled to Vancouver to attend the opening of the Sculpture/Inuit
exhibition.
1971 Kiawak's sculpture "Howling spirit (Tornrak) and its young" (1962) is featured
on the cover of the SCULPTURE/INUIT catalogue.
1980 A sculpture by Kiawak entitled 'Sedna' was reproduced on a seventeen
cent stamp issued September 25, 1980.
1987 One of Ashoona's carvings was presented to U.S. president Ronald Reagan
at the Summit meeting June 21,1988 in Toronto.
1989 Attended the opening of the 'Masters of the Arctic' exhibition in New York.
SELECTED REFERENCES:

ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by
Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in
association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.

IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art
of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.

INUIT SPIRITS: Theme of New Postage Stamps. News/North, vol.
25, September 19, 1980. [1]p.
Blakeman, Evelyn
OMINGMAK: The Muskox. The Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter,
Issue 31, April, 1986.
Blodgett, Jean
CHRISTIANITY AND INUIT ART. The Beaver, Autumn, 1984. pp.16-25.


Blodgett, Jean
GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS: Selections from the Klamer Family
Collection of Inuit Art. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983.
Blodgett, Jean
IN CAPE DORSET WE DO IT THIS WAY: THREE DECADES OF INUIT
PRINTMAKING: Jean Blodgett/with essays by Heather Ardies,
Leslie Boyd and Linda Sutherland. Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, 1991.
Blodgett, Jean
SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT
SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1986.
Blodgett, Jean and Susan Gustavison
STRANGE SCENES: EARLY CAPE DORSET DRAWINGS. Kleinburg, Ont.:
McMichael Canadian Collection, 1993.
Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Dev.
INUNNIT: The Art of the Canadian Eskimo = L'art des Eskimaux du
Canada. / by W. T. Larmour. French translation by Jacques
Brunet. Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, 1967.
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de
l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS QUEBEC. = GUILDE CANADIENNE DES METIERS
D'ART QUEBEC: The Permanent Collection: Inuit Arts and Crafts,
c. 1900-1980. Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980.
Drolet, Jean-Paul
THE ART THAT CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Ottawa: XII International
Congress of the International Society of Photogrammetry, 1972.

Gillmor, Alison
THE ASHOONA FAMILY OF CAPE DORSET. Inuit Art Quarterly, 10(2)
Summer 1995, pp. 38-39.
Houston, James A.
INUIT SCULPTURE: The Spirit in the Stone. Town and Country,
vol. 137, no. 5042, November, 1983. pp.315-317, 322-323.
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from
Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American
Native Arts Museum, 1995.
Inuit Art Collection
CAPE DORSET: Sculptors and their Sculpture. Manchester, Conn.:
The Inuit Art Collection, 1981.
Inuit Galerie
KIAWAK ASHOONA. Mannheim: Federal Republic of Germany, Inuit
Gallerie, 1987.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Baffin Island Sculpture. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery, 1986.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
CAPE DORSET SCULPTURE: Fantasy & Stylization. Vancouver: Inuit
Gallery of Vancouver, 1983.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Masterwork Exhibitors of the Canadian
Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.
Jackson, Marion E.
THE ASHOONAS OF CAPE DORSET: In Touch with Tradition.
North/Nord, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 1982. pp.14-18.
Leechman, Douglas
ESKIMO SCULPTURE IN STONE. Canadian Geographical Journal, vol.
49, no. 3, September, 1954. pp.90-99.

Lipton, Barbara
ARCTIC VISION: Art of the Canadian Inuit. Ottawa : Canadian
Arctic Producers, 1984.
Macduff, Alistair
LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By
Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.
Marion Scott Gallery
INSPIRATION: FOUR DECADES OF SCULPTURE BY CANADIAN INUIT:
Curated by Norman Zepp. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery [1996].
McMichael Canadian Collection
THE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN COLLECTION. Kleinberg: McMichael
Canadian Collection, 1979.
Millard, Peter
ON QUALITY IN ART: Who decides. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7,
no. 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 4-14.
National Museum of Man
THE INUIT PRINT = L'ESTAMPE INUIT: A Travelling Exhibition... =
Une exposition itinerante... Ottawa: National Museum of Man,
National Museums of Canada, 1977.
Oxorn, Pearl
AN INUIT'S TRIBUTE TO CONTAIN FAMILY UNITY. Ottawa Journal,
October 23, 1976.
Ritchie, Carson I.A.
THE ESKIMO AND HIS ART. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of
Canada, 1974. [London and New York, 1975].
Robertson Galleries
CARVINGS AND PRINTS BY THE FAMILY OF PITSEOLAK. Ottawa: The
Robertson Galleries, 1967.
Robertson Galleries
ESKIMO SCULPTURE '69. Ottawa: The Robertson Galleries, 1969.

Routledge, Marie
KIAWAK ASHOONA: Sculpture. Cape Dorset: Kingait Press, 1980.
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
University of Guelph
THE KLAMER FAMILY COLLECTION OF INUIT ART (from the Art Gallery
of Ontario). Guelph: University of Guelph, 1980.
Verona. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
IMMAGINARIO INUIT: ARTE E CULTURA DEGLI ESQUIMESICANADESI.
Commune di Verona: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Palazzo Forti, 1995.
Waddington Galleries
ESKIMO SCULPTURE. Montreal: Waddington Galleries, 1974.
Webb, Marshall
THE TORONTO DOMINION GALLERY OF INUIT ART. Toronto, Ont. :
Inuit Art Quarterly 1(2):8-9, 1986.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
CAPE DORSET. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
CAPE DORSET: Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the
Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1975.

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About Kiugak Ashoona

Sculptor, b. 1933 - d. 2014

Related Styles/Movements

Inuit Art

Aliases

Kiawak Ashoona, Kiowak Ashoona

Biography

KIAWAK ASHOONA (KIUGAK; KIOWAK; KEEOWER; KIOGA)
Born: September 16, 1933 Male E7-1103
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking
EXHIBITIONS:
May 1953 Eskimo Carvings: Coronation Exhibition
Gimpel Fils
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
1959 Northern Exhibit
Stratford Festival
Stratford, Ontario
1960, 1963 Cape Dorset Graphics
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1962 Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker)
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1963 ART ESKIMO
Galerie de France
Paris, France
(illustrated catalogue)
1965 Four Artists from Cape Dorset
Lippel Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
1967 Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative
Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1967 The Eskimo Art Collection of the
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)


January - February 1967 Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo
Prints & Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada,
in cooperation with the Canadian
Eskimo Art Committee
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
April - May 1967 Carvings and Prints by the Family
of Pitseolak
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
1968 Eskimo Sculpture
Man & His World, Arctic Pavilion
Montreal, Quebec
November - Dec 1968 Eskimo Carvings
Waddington
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1969 Arctic Art
Lippel Gallery, presented at Place
Bonaventure
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
1970 Mythology in Stone
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - July 1970 Sculpture
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
a competition/exhibition organized as
a contribution to the Centennial of the
N.W.T.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1970 The Woodget Collection of Eskimo Art
and Artifacts
Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Art
Halifax, Nova Scotia
(catalogue)
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1971 The Art of the Eskimo
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1971 Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the
Collection of York University
Art Gallery of York University
Downsview, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1973 Cultures of the Sun and the Snow:
Indian and Eskimo Art of the Americas
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
held at "Man and His World"
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1973 - January 1974
Eskimo Sculpture (and Drawings)
Waddington Galleries
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
August 1974 Ten Masterworks Exhibition Artists
Gallery of the Arctic
Victoria, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

October - Nov 1974 Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1975 Cape Dorset - Selected Sculpture from the
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1976 Selections from the Toronto-Dominion
Collection of Eskimo Art
National Arts Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
November 1976 Hunters of Old
Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario
1977 The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan 1977 - Jun 1982 The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1978 Looking South
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

October 1978 Kiawak, Kumwartok, Kaka:
The Sons of Pitseolak Ashoona - Cape Dorset
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
Oct - Nov 1978 Eskimo Art
Embankment Gallery
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine
Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/
Dr. Harry Winrob Collection
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1979 Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene B. Power
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1979 Taleelayu-Sedna: An exhibition of Eskimo
Art derived from the legends of the
sea goddess
Gallery One
Toronto, Ontario

October 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterwork
Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Feb 1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
January - March 1980 Cape Dorset
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1980 Collectors' Choice - An Exhibition of
Important Inuit Sculpture
Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
February - March 1980 First Annual Collectors' Invitational
Exhibition
Inuk 1/Eskimo Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1980 Inuit Sculpture Prints & Drawings
Theo Waddington Galleries
Montreal, Quebec
1981 Cape Dorset Sculptors and Their Sculpture
The Inuit Art Collection
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bacon
Manchester, Connecticut, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)

May - June 1981 Four Cape Dorset Sculptors
Theo Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
September 1981 The Year of the Bear
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
September - October 1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
June - October 1982 Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
May 1983 Out of the Depths: Whalebone Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
May 1983 - April 1985 Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from
the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1983 Fantasy and Stylization - Cape Dorset
Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario

Feb 1984 - Jun 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and Canadian
Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1984 The Oral Tradition
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
June - August 1984 Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
October 1984 Images of the Far North
Studio Art Gallery,
State University of New York
Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
Feb 1985 - Apr 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Department of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada, Ottawa,
presented by Commerzbank
Frankfurt, Germany
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1985 Gems in Arctic Jade: Sculpture of the Inuit
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
October 1985 Our Hoods are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

December 1985 Masterwork Sculpture 1985
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 Baffin Island Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 - Feb 1988 Selections from the John and Mary Robertson
Collection of Inuit Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1988 Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture
Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
June - September 1988 The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
October 1988 Opening Exhibition
Nunavut Fine Arts Limited
Toronto, Ontario
November 1988 Primitive Art from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Nov 1988 - Apr 1989 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January 1989 Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art
from the Northwest Territories
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
Jan - Feb 1989 Images of the Far North
Arctic Artistry
(held at the Erie County Fairgrounds)
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
April 1989 Master Works from the Early Years
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
June 1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition
of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks
Presented by the Amway Corporation
at the United Nations General Assembly
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Sep 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
Sep - Oct 1990 Through the Eyes of the Shaman
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
November 1990 Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1990 - Jan 1991 A Family Tradition: Inuit Art
from Canada's Arctic
Presented by Arctic Inuit Art at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

February - June 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Exhibition (first exhibition)
Vancouver Inuit Art Society
Vancouver, British Columbia
May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and
Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
June - September 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Exhibition (second exhibition)
Vancouver Inuit Art Society
Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov - Dec 1991 Inuit Sculpture: Displayed in Conjunction with
the 1991 Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection
Muscarelle Museum of Art
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
Dec 1991 - Mar 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
Feb - Sep 1992 Inuit Art: Drawings and Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
May 1992 Our Hoods Are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1992 Inuit Sculpture--New Acquisitions
Pucker Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)

December 1992 Small Sculptures by Great Artists I
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
March - June 1993 Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinberg, Ontario
Nov 1993 - Mar 1994 The Inuit Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1993 Small Sculptures by Great Artists II
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May - August 1994 On Collectors and Collecting:
Selections from the Herb & Cece Schreiber
Family Collection
The Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
October 1994 Sculpture of the Inuit:
Major Works by the Masters of Stone
Maslak McLeod Canadian Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
Jan - Feb 1995 The Collector's Eye
Inuit Art from Private Collections
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, USA
(illustrated brochure)

March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
May - Sep 1995 Keeping Our Stories Alive:
An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts
from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
March 1980 Kiawak Ashoona
Theo Waddington
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1980 Kiawak Ashoona - Stone Sculpture
Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November 1985 Kiawak Ashoona: aus Cape Dorset, Baffin-Insel,
Nordkanada
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
August - Sep 1986 Kiugak Ashoona - Recent Sculpture
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

May 1991 Kiawak
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
COLLECTIONS:
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, U.S.A.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, U.S.A.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
1959 Kiawak attended the opening of the exhibit 'Eskimo Carvers at Stratford',
which was held during the 1959 Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario.
1971 Travelled to Vancouver to attend the opening of the Sculpture/Inuit
exhibition.
1971 Kiawak's sculpture "Howling spirit (Tornrak) and its young" (1962) is featured
on the cover of the SCULPTURE/INUIT catalogue.
1980 A sculpture by Kiawak entitled 'Sedna' was reproduced on a seventeen
cent stamp issued September 25, 1980.
1987 One of Ashoona's carvings was presented to U.S. president Ronald Reagan
at the Summit meeting June 21,1988 in Toronto.
1989 Attended the opening of the 'Masters of the Arctic' exhibition in New York.
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Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in
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IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
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INUIT SPIRITS: Theme of New Postage Stamps. News/North, vol.
25, September 19, 1980. [1]p.
Blakeman, Evelyn
OMINGMAK: The Muskox. The Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter,
Issue 31, April, 1986.
Blodgett, Jean
CHRISTIANITY AND INUIT ART. The Beaver, Autumn, 1984. pp.16-25.


Blodgett, Jean
GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS: Selections from the Klamer Family
Collection of Inuit Art. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983.
Blodgett, Jean
IN CAPE DORSET WE DO IT THIS WAY: THREE DECADES OF INUIT
PRINTMAKING: Jean Blodgett/with essays by Heather Ardies,
Leslie Boyd and Linda Sutherland. Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, 1991.
Blodgett, Jean
SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT
SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1986.
Blodgett, Jean and Susan Gustavison
STRANGE SCENES: EARLY CAPE DORSET DRAWINGS. Kleinburg, Ont.:
McMichael Canadian Collection, 1993.
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Brunet. Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
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Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
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Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de
l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS QUEBEC. = GUILDE CANADIENNE DES METIERS
D'ART QUEBEC: The Permanent Collection: Inuit Arts and Crafts,
c. 1900-1980. Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980.
Drolet, Jean-Paul
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Congress of the International Society of Photogrammetry, 1972.

Gillmor, Alison
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Houston, James A.
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Native Arts Museum, 1995.
Inuit Art Collection
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Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.
Jackson, Marion E.
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Leechman, Douglas
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Lipton, Barbara
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Arctic Producers, 1984.
Macduff, Alistair
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Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
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Millard, Peter
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National Museum of Man
THE INUIT PRINT = L'ESTAMPE INUIT: A Travelling Exhibition... =
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Oxorn, Pearl
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Routledge, Marie
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Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
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Swinton, George
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