Kiawak (Kiugak) Ashoona OC, RCA (1933). An important Inuit sculptor, carver, draftsman and printmaker, Kiawak Ashoona (aka: Kiugak Ashoona) was born at the Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut,... Read full biography
Kiawak (Kiugak) Ashoona OC, RCA (1933). An important Inuit sculptor, carver, draftsman and printmaker, Kiawak Ashoona (aka: Kiugak Ashoona) was born at the Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and currently (2014) lives near Cape Dorset (on Baffin Island), Nunavut. Ashoona's carvings,... Read full biography
Kiawak (Kiugak) Ashoona OC, RCA (1933). An important Inuit sculptor, carver, draftsman and printmaker, Kiawak Ashoona (aka: Kiugak Ashoona) was born at the Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and currently (2014) lives near Cape Dorset (on Baffin Island), Nunavut. Ashoona's carvings, drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions and his works are in the collections of numerous museums including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the British Museum... Read full biography
Kiawak (Kiugak) Ashoona OC, RCA (1933). An important Inuit sculptor, carver, draftsman and printmaker, Kiawak Ashoona (aka: Kiugak Ashoona) was born at the Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and currently (2014) lives near Cape Dorset (on Baffin Island), Nunavut. Ashoona's carvings, drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions and his works are in the collections of numerous museums including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the British Museum (London, England), the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). (1). His mediums include stone, marine ivory, bone, antler, wood, sinew, colored pencil, stone cut print* and mixed mediums. His subjects include Inuit... Read full biography
Kiawak (Kiugak) Ashoona OC, RCA (1933). An important Inuit sculptor, carver, draftsman and printmaker, Kiawak Ashoona (aka: Kiugak Ashoona) was born at the Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and currently (2014) lives near Cape Dorset (on Baffin Island), Nunavut. Ashoona's carvings, drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions and his works are in the collections of numerous museums including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the British Museum (London, England), the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). (1). His mediums include stone, marine ivory, bone, antler, wood, sinew, colored pencil, stone cut print* and mixed mediums. His subjects include Inuit genre (e.g. nomadic life, family activities, hunting and fishing), figures, mother and child, legends, mythology, religion (Christian), al... Read full biography
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About Kiugak (Kiawak) Ashoona: Books
Books & Publications (55)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (Exhibition catalog)
2013
Wight, Darlene Coward (Editor)
256 pages (color)
Canadian Who's Who, 2012-2013
2012
Charters, Anderson and Susan Charters, Editors
1,331 pages
Hunters, Carvers & Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art (The Peabody Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Lutz, Maija M.
148 pages (color)
The Stafford Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Wight, Darlene Coward
36 pages (color)
Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2011
McMaster, Gerald, Editor
271 pages (color)
Kiugak Ashoona: Stories and Imaginings from Cape Dorset
2010
Wight, Darlene Coward and Marie Routledge
127 pages (color)
Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955 (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
2006
Wight, Darlene Coward
192 pages (color)
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples To Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1
2005
Beavon, Daniel J.K.; Cora Jane Voyageur; David Newhouse
458 pages (color)
Cape Dorset Sculpture
2005
Norton, Derek and Nigel Reading
136 pages (color)
Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Franklin, David (Editor)
288 pages (color)
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
The Jerry Twomey Collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery: Inuit Sculpture from the Canadian Arctic (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Wight, Darlene Coward
128 pages (color)
Inuit: When Words Take Shape (Exhibition of Natural HIstory Museum of Lyon, 2003-2008) (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Brousseau, Raymond, et al
144 pages (color)
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
2002
Newlands, Anne
355 pages (color)
Transitions 2: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada
2001
Pottle, Barry and Ryan Rice
33 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A History
2000
Crandall, Richard C.
420 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit
1999
Swinton, George
302 pages (color)
Celebrating Inuit Art: 1948-1970 (Canadian Museum of Civilization) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Von Finckenstein, Maria
191 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A Heritage for the Future (Canadian Guild of Crafts, Quebec)
1999
Watt, Virginia
59 pages (color)
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: Horizons (Inuit Gallery of Vancouver) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Zavediuk, Melanie
44 pages
Creation & Continuity: Inuit Art from the Shumiatcher Collection (MacKenzie Art Gallery)
1998
Gibson, Jennifer, Darlene Coward Wight and Bradley Hunter
48 pages (color)
Inuit Art: An Introduction
1998
Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel
198 pages (color)
Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada Ottawa: G-K: Canadian Art Volume Two (National Gallery of Canada)
1994
Lantry, Pierre B. Claire Champ et. al (General Editors)
401 pages
Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings (McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
1993
Blodgett, Jean and Susan Gustavison
128 pages
Biographies of Inuit Artists: Four Volumes
1993
Editor, Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs
0 pages
In the Shadow of the Sun: Perspectives on Contemporary Native Art (Canadian Museum of Civilization) (Exhibition catalog)
1993
McMaster, Gerald et al
538 pages
The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History
1992
Bumsted, J.M.
581 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit-
1992
Swinton, George
288 pages
In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking
1991
Blodgett, Jean
144 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Art Gallery of Ontario-Selected Works
1990
Withrow, William J., et al
463 pages (color)
The McMichael Canadian Collection
1989
Blodgett, Jean
175 pages (color)
1001 Questions about Canada
1988
Colombo, John Robert
375 pages (color)
Inuit Art: An Anthology
1988
Houston, Alma
128 pages (color)
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Second Edition: (Four Volumes)
1988
Marsh, James H. (Editor)
2,736 pages (color)
The Art Collection of McMaster University: European, Canadian and American Paintings, Prints, Drawings and Sculpture
1987
Ness, Kim G.
328 pages (color)
Selections from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
1986
Blodgett, Jean
86 pages (color)
Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
1985
Driscoll, Bernadette
134 pages (color)
The Canadian Encyclopedia: (Three Volumes)
1985
Marsh, James H. (Editor)
2,089 pages (color)
Inuit Art Section: Catalogue of Services and Collections (Unpaginated Loose-Leaf Binder)
1984
Editor, Research and Documentation Centre on Inuit Art
0 pages
Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Lipton, Barbara
107 pages (color)
Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art (Art Gallery of Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Blodgett, Jean
271 pages (color)
Lords of the Stone: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture
1982
Mac Duff, Alistair; George M. Galpin
151 pages (color)
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec: The Permanent Collection (Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec)
1980
Watt, Virginia J., et al
207 pages (color)
Cape Dorset (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Houston, James et al
113 pages
The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture (Amon Carter Museum of Western Art)
1977
Goetz, Helga
12 pages
The McMichael Canadian Collection
1976
Duval, Paul; Dorothy Harley Eber
198 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 3, Jacobi-Lismer
1975
MacDonald, Colin S.
392 pages
A Directory of Eskimo Artists in Sculpture and Prints
1974
Gray, Philip Howard
264 pages
Sculpture of the Eskimo
1972
Swinton, George
255 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit
1972
Swinton, George
255 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic (British Museum exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Taylor, William E. Jr., George Swinton and James Houston
493 pages
Inunnit (sic): The Art of the Canadian Eskimo
1970
Larmour, W.T.
103 pages
Cape Dorset: A Decade of Eskimo Prints and Recent Sculptures (National Gallery of Canada)