AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
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Born 1955 Baffin Island, Northwest Territories (Nunavut). Known for: Inuit carving and mixed media figure, genre, arctic wildlife and cultural symbolism.
Manasie Akpaliapik (1955). An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to... Read full biography
Manasie Akpaliapik (1955). An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to Arctic Bay (a village on northern Baffin Island); since 1980 he's lived in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto,... Read full biography
Manasie Akpaliapik (1955). An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to Arctic Bay (a village on northern Baffin Island); since 1980 he's lived in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and currently (2013) Ottawa, Ontario. His life and work are discussed in most of the recent books on Inuit art and Canadian art. His carvings have been featured in numerous landmark... Read full biography
Manasie Akpaliapik (1955). An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to Arctic Bay (a village on northern Baffin Island); since 1980 he's lived in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and currently (2013) Ottawa, Ontario. His life and work are discussed in most of the recent books on Inuit art and Canadian art. His carvings have been featured in numerous landmark exhibitions and they're prized acquisitions in prominent public collections. His biography has been included in Canadian Who's Who since 1993. Akpaliapik's mediums include fossilized whalebone*, stone, bone, antler, tusk, ivory, baleen and mixed mediums; his... Read full biography
Manasie Akpaliapik (1955). An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut). In 1967 his family moved to Arctic Bay (a village on northern Baffin Island); since 1980 he's lived in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and currently (2013) Ottawa, Ontario. His life and work are discussed in most of the recent books on Inuit art and Canadian art. His carvings have been featured in numerous landmark exhibitions and they're prized acquisitions in prominent public collections. His biography has been included in Canadian Who's Who since 1993. Akpaliapik's mediums include fossilized whalebone*, stone, bone, antler, tusk, ivory, baleen and mixed mediums; his works are often composed of several pieces of different materials. His subjects are figures, faces, genre, shamans, symbolism, spi... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (25)
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Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art
2013
(Exhibition catalog)Wight, Darlene Coward (Editor)256 pages (color)Canadian Who's Who, 2012-2013
2012Charters, Anderson and Susan Charters, Editors1,331 pagesThe Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists
2012Hirschfelder, Arlene B.; Paulette Fairbanks Molin568 pages (color)The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher)
2010Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky480 pages (color)Canadian Who's Who, 2008
2008Lumley, Elizabeth1,441 pagesArctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona)
2006
(Exhibition catalog)Hessel, Ingo240 pages (color)The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic
2005Auger, Emily E.295 pagesBiographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing250 pagesInuit: When Words Take Shape (Exhibition of Natural HIstory Museum of Lyon, 2003-2008)
2002
(Exhibition catalog)Brousseau, Raymond, et al144 pages (color)Inuit Art: An Introduction
2002Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel198 pages (color)Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
2002Newlands, Anne355 pages (color)An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
2001Crandall, Richard C.464 pages (color)Inuit Art: A History
2000Crandall, Richard C.420 pagesUnpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
1999Phillips, Ruth Bliss; Christopher Burghard Steiner424 pagesSculpture of the Inuit
1999Swinton, George302 pages (color)Art of the Far North: Inuit Sculpture, Drawing and Printmaking
1998Finley, Carol56 pages (color)St. James Guide to Native North American Artists
1998Matuz, Roger (Editor)691 pagesEchoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative
1997Moss, John George232 pagesFrom Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite: The Birth of Class and Nationalism Among Canadian Inuit
1996Mitchell, Marybelle533 pagesKeeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada
1995Editor, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum64 pages (color)Biographies of Inuit Artists: Four Volumes
1993Editor, Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs0 pagesThe Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Seidelman, Harold; James Turner224 pages (color)Canadian Who's Who, 1993
1993Simpson, Kieran1,219 pagesNew Territories: 350-500 Years After: An Exhibition of Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Canada (At Multiple Montreal Locations)
1992Tetreault, Pierre-Leon142 pages (color)