KIAKSHUK
(KEEAKSHOOK) Born: 1886 Male E7-1057
Died: April, 1966
Resided: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking
In addition to being a versatile artist, Kiakshuk was also a well-known
storyteller. His son Lukta Qiatsuk is a graphic artist and sculptor. Two
daughters, Ishuhungitok Pootoogook and the late Paunichea, became graphic
artists as well.
EXHIBITIONS:
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, Cape Dorset Graphics
1966, 1967 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1963 ART ESKIMO
Galerie de France
Paris, France
(illustrated catalogue)
1967 The Eskimo Art Collection of the
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1967 Inoonoot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran
Cape Dorset och Povungnituk
Konstframjandet
Stockholm, Sweden
(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)
June - July 1967 4th National Burnaby Print Show
Burnaby Art Society
Burnaby, British Columbia
February - March 1968 A Collection of Original Drawings by
Cape Dorset Artists (in conjunction with
Davidee Kavik Sculpture)
Lofthouse Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
1970 Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada:
First Collection
Cultural Affairs Division, Department
of External Affairs, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1970 Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada:
Second Collection
Cultural Affairs Division, Department
of External Affairs, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1970 Canadian Eskimo Arts Festival
Alaska Methodist University Galleries
Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - Feb 1971 The Art of the Eskimo
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1971 Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the
Collection of York University
Art Gallery of York University
Downsview, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1974 Ulu/Inua: Form and Fantasy in Eskimo Art
Casino Gallery, Ravinia Park
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1976 A Tribute to Cape Dorset Male Artists
Inukshuk Gallery
Waterloo, Ontario
November 1976 Hunters of Old
Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario
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)
Oct - Nov 1978 Eskimo Art
Embankment Gallery
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
1979 - 1981 By the Light of the Qulliq: Eskimo Life in the
Canadian Arctic
Smithsonian Institution, A travelling exhibition
of Inuit art from the Feheley Collection
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1979 - 1981 Cape Dorset Engravings
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(brochure)
March - May 1979 Eskimo Narrative
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - Oct 1981 Images of the Inuit: from the Simon
Fraser Collection
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1979 Print Making Today
Shell Centre Gallery
Calgary, Alberta
April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1981 Return to Origins
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Sep - Oct 1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1981 - Jan 1983 Cape Dorset Engravings
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development, circulated
by the Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
Oct 1981 - Feb 1983 The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit
Print Collection
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, New Brunswick
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1982 Return to Origins II
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
June - October 1982 Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
Dec 1982 - Jan 1983 Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la
collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
presented at Chateau Dufresne
Montreal, Quebec
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)
June 1983 Return to Origins III
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Oct - Nov 1983 The Cape Dorset Print
Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Oct - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
Sep - Oct 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, 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 Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery
Collection
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
Oct - Nov 1985 Media and Techniques
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
May - June 1986 The Spirit of the Land
The Koffler Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
May - September 1986 From Drawing to Print: Perceptions and
Process in Cape Dorset Art
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 - February 1988 Selections from the John and Mary Robertson
Collection of Inuit Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
-7- KIAKSHUK (continued) EXHIBITIONS: (continued) November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
May - June 1987 Inuit Graphics from the Past
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
September - November 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
November 1987 - January 1988 Inuitkonst fran Kanada - skulptor och
grafik
Millesgarden
Lidingo, Sweden
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1987 - March 1989 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1988 Art/Facts
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
November - December 1988 Native Hands: Inuit art from
past and present
Oakville Galleries
Oakville, Ontario
-8- KIAKSHUK (continued) EXHIBITIONS: (continued) November 1988 - April 1989 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
January - April 1989 Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
February - April 1989 Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of
Inuit Art
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Banff, Alberta
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
April - August 1989 Cape Dorset Sculptures and Engravings
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
August - October 1989 Inuit Graphic Art from Indian
& Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
1990 Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
February - March 1990 Inuit Drawings
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
1991 Art/Facts
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
-9- KIAKSHUK (continued) EXHIBITIONS: (continued) January 1991 Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art
from Canada
at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the
University of British Columbia Museum of
Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art
Collection
Tokyo, Japan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1991 Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Exhibition (second exhibition)
Vancouver Inuit Art Society
Vancouver, British Columbia
December 1991 - March 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1993 - January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1994 Share the Vision
Philadelphians Collect Inuit Art
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
May - June 1994 Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection
of previously unreleased prints, exhibited
at selected commercial galleries, organized by
West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories
May 1994 - July 1995 Cape Dorset Revisited
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
-10- KIAKSHUK (continued) EXHIBITIONS: (continued) July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1995 - February 1996 Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: September - October 1985 Ancient Meeting: Works of Kiakshuk 1960-1966
Gallery of Eskimo Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A
COLLECTIONS: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
CIBC Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
-11- KIAKSHUK (continued) COLLECTIONS: (continued) Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
London Regional Art Gallery, London, 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 Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Shell Canada Collection, Calgary, Alberta
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Toronto Board of Education Archives and Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: A series of large 'inuksuit' built by Kiakshuk were reassembled at Toronto
International Airport.
1958 Kiakshuk appeared in the National Film Board Film of Canada film "The Living
Stone" as the storyteller.
1979 Kiakshuk's 1960 print "Summer Tent" was reproduced on a Canadian seventeen
cent postage stamp issued September 13th.
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.
ESKIMO SONGS AND STORIES: / Collected by Knud Rasmussen,
selected and translated by Edward Field. New York: Delacorte
Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973.
Adamson, Arthur
THE SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Inuit Art Quarterly,
vol.3, no.1, Winter, 1988. pp.19-20.
Baele, Nancy
INUIT ART: A new show comes to the National Gallery. Ottawa
Citizen, January 13, 1989.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
THE MURRAY AND MARGUERITE VAUGHAN INUIT PRINT COLLECTION =
COLLECTION D'ESTAMPES INUIT: An Exhibition Organized and
Circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada.
Fredericton: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1981.
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
LOOKING SOUTH: a travelling exhibition organized and circulated
by The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1978.
Blodgett, Jean
SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT
SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1986.
-13- KIAKSHUK (continued) SELECTED REFERENCES: (continued) 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.
Driscoll, Bernadette
UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1985.
Gimpel, Charles
A COLLECTOR'S VIEW. The Beaver, Autumn, 1967. pp.72-75.
Gustavison, Susan J.
ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS
COUNCIL 1961 - 1989. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, 1994.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO ARTISTS. The Geographical Magazine, vol. 34, no. 11,
March, 1962. pp.638-650.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO PRINTS. Don Mills; Longmans Canada, 1971.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
INUIT DRAWINGS. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1990.
-14- KIAKSHUK (continued) SELECTED REFERENCES: (continued) Jackson, Marion E.
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart
Art Centre, 1987.
Jordon, Wendy Adler
BY THE LIGHT OF THE QULLIQ: Eskimo Life in the Canadian
Arctic. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service, 1979.
LaBarge, Dorothy
FROM DRAWING TO PRINT: Perception and Process in Cape Dorset
Art. Calgary, Alta. : Glenbow Museum, 1986.
Muehlen, Maria and Julie Hodgson, eds.
THE QIATSUK FAMILY OF SCULPTORS. INUIT ARTS AND CRAFTS
(1):20-23, 1983.
Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg)
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick
and Lucy S. Herman. Williamsburg, Va.: The College of William
and Mary in Virginia, 1993.
National Gallery of Canada
CAPE DORSET: A Decade of Eskimo Prints and Recent Sculpture =
Dix ans d'estampes esquimaudes et sculptures recentes. Ottawa:
The National Gallery of Canada, 1967.
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.
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
THE JACQUI AND MORRIS SHUMIATCHER COLLECTION OF INUIT ART.
Regina: The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1981.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
-15- KIAKSHUK (continued) SELECTED REFERENCES: (continued) Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
NEW ART FROM SPIRIT WORLD OF THE ESKIMO. Vancouver Sun, October
24, 1969.
Vastokas, Joan M.
CONTINUITIES IN ESKIMO GRAPHIC STYLE. artscanada, vol. 27, no.
6, December-January, 1971. pp.69-83.
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.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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