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Born 1961 Cape Dorset Island, Nunavut. Known for: Inuit landscape and genre pencil drawing.
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist who works primarily in drawing. She is known for her detailed pen and pencil drawings depicting Northern landscapes and contemporary Inuit life. Ashoona was born... Read full biography
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist who works primarily in drawing. She is known for her detailed pen and pencil drawings depicting Northern landscapes and contemporary Inuit life. Ashoona was born in 1961 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut to a family of celebrated artists. Her father Kiawak Ashoona was a... Read full biography
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist who works primarily in drawing. She is known for her detailed pen and pencil drawings depicting Northern landscapes and contemporary Inuit life. Ashoona was born in 1961 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut to a family of celebrated artists. Her father Kiawak Ashoona was a sculptor, her mother Sorosilooto Ashoona was a graphic-artist and her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona was one of the most acclaimed Inuit artists of her generation. She is also related to artists... Read full biography
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist who works primarily in drawing. She is known for her detailed pen and pencil drawings depicting Northern landscapes and contemporary Inuit life. Ashoona was born in 1961 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut to a family of celebrated artists. Her father Kiawak Ashoona was a sculptor, her mother Sorosilooto Ashoona was a graphic-artist and her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona was one of the most acclaimed Inuit artists of her generation. She is also related to artists Napatchie Pootoogook, her aunt, and Annie Pootoogook, her cousin, with whom she was selected to participate in "Oh, Canada," a showcase of contemporary Canadian artists curated by Denise Markonish and held at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in... Read full biography
Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist who works primarily in drawing. She is known for her detailed pen and pencil drawings depicting Northern landscapes and contemporary Inuit life. Ashoona was born in 1961 in Cape Dorset, Nunavut to a family of celebrated artists. Her father Kiawak Ashoona was a sculptor, her mother Sorosilooto Ashoona was a graphic-artist and her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona was one of the most acclaimed Inuit artists of her generation. She is also related to artists Napatchie Pootoogook, her aunt, and Annie Pootoogook, her cousin, with whom she was selected to participate in "Oh, Canada," a showcase of contemporary Canadian artists curated by Denise Markonish and held at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in May 2012. Ashoona's drawings are sometimes rooted in nature, but other times drawn from imagination, creating a claustrophobic, dense effect. Rec... Read full biography
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