IYOLA KINGWATSIAK (IOLA) Born: August 3, 1933 Male E7-914
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking
Iyola Kingwatsiak's wife Pootoogook is a graphic artist. Several of his
siblings are or were also artists in Cape Dorset. His sister the late Tye
Adla (1936-1990) was a carver and graphic artist. Two other sisters, the late
Keeleemeeoomee Samualie (1919-1983) and Anna Kingwatsiak (1911-1971), were
graphic artists. Iyola's brother Mikigak Kingwatsiak is also a carver and
grahic artist.
EXHIBITIONS: 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, Cape Dorset Graphics
1967, 1971, 1992, 1993 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker)
1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, (annual collection)
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, (illustrated catalogue)
1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
1992, 1993
1967 Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative
Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(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
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)
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)
October - Nov 1973 Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - September 1974 Ulu/Inua: Form and Fantasy in Eskimo Art
Casino Gallery, Ravinia Park
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
November 1976 Hunters of Old
Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario
Jan 1977 - June 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)
November - 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 - Oct 1981 Images of the Inuit: from the Simon
Fraser Collection
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1980 Cape Dorset
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
September 1981 The Year of the Bear
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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)
March - April 1982 Songs in Stone
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
June 1982 Return to Origins II
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Sep - Oct 1983 Inuit Survival
Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario
Presented at the University of Waterloo
Art Gallery
Waterloo, Ontario
October - Nov 1983 The Cape Dorset Print
Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
October - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
June - August 1984 Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Nov - Dec 1984 Contemporary Art: Cape Dorset
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1988 Sculpture Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1988 - April 1989 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
January - Feb 1989 Images of the Far North
Arctic Artistry
(held at the Erie County Fairgrounds)
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
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)
March 1989 White Lords of the Arctic: Bears in Stone and Bone
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)
June - July 1989 A New Day Dawning: Early Cape Dorset Prints
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1990 Early and Contemporary Sculpture and Prints
by Well-Known Inuit Artists
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
June - July 1990 Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
June 1990 - July 1992 The First Passionate Collector:
The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1990 Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
August - Sep 1991 Cape Dorset Stone Sculpture: Masters
& the Next Generation
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1991 Cape Dorset, First Generation Printers:
Engravings 1962-1963
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
Dec 1991 - March 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1992 Arctic Ice: Sculptures in Marble by the
Artists of Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1992 Small Sculptures by Great Artists I
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
Nov 1993 - Jan 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1993 Small Sculptures by Great Artists II
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
August 1994 Iyola Kingwatsiak and Pitseolaq Niviaqsi
Houston North Gallery
Halifax, Nova Scotia
(illustrated brochure)
Nov - Dec 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
April - June 1995 The Birds of Cape Dorset:
A collection of sculpture by
32 Cape Dorset Carvers
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut:
Things from the Past
Feheley Fine Art
Toronto, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: September 1991 Iyola Kingwatsiak
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
September - Oct 1995 Drawings by Iyola Kingwatsiak
Albers Gallery
San Fransisco, California, 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.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
Fitzgerald Collection, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Hudson Bay Permanent Collection, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, U.S.A.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1959 Government of Canada Commission. Iyola's print ' Canada Geese Taking Off' was
presented to Queen Elizabeth.
1961 Involved with the first experiments in copperplate engraving in Cape Dorset. 1969 His print "Geese Leaving" (1964/65, #38) was presented as a gift to
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth.
1971 Elected President of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. Re-elected in
1972 and 1973.
1971 Attended opening of Sculpture/Inuit exhibition in London, England. 1987 Norgraphics Limited. Iyola was one of several artists whose work was acquired
and released by Norgraphics Limited between 1982 and 1986. The works that were
selected are documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual catalogue of 1987.
1989 Attended the opening of the exhibition 'Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989'
held at the McMichael Canadian Collection.
1992 Iyola participated as a speaker on Cape Dorset Printmaking at the Inuit Art
Conference held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in January.
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.
Adamson, Arthur
THE SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Inuit Art Quarterly,
vol.3, no.1, Winter, 1988. pp.19-20.
Barz, Sandra B., ed.
CANADIAN INUIT PRINT ARTIST/PRINTER BIOGRAPHIES. New York :
Arts & Culture of the North, 1990.
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.
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.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO PRINTS. Don Mills; Longmans Canada, 1971.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
CAPE DORSET STONE SCULPTURE: MASTERS AND THE NEXT GENERATION:
August 17-September 6, 1991. Vancouver, B.C.: Inuit Gallery of
Vancouver, 1991.
LaBarge, Dorothy
FROM DRAWING TO PRINT: Perception and Process in Cape Dorset
Art. Calgary, Alta. : Glenbow Museum, 1986.
Marion Scott Gallery
ARCTIC ICE: SCULPTURES IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992.
Mitchell, Marybelle, and Ovilu Goo-Doyle
THE ARTISTS SPEAK: Iyola Kingwatsiak, Kananginak Pootoogook,
and Jimmy Manning. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring
1992, pp. 26-34.
Muehlen, Maria
CAPE DORSET; KUNSTZENTRUM AUF BAFFIN ISLAND: Cape Dorset; Art
Centre on Baffin Island. Toronto, Ont. : Canada Journal
3(5):11-12, 1985.
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 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.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Tagoona, William
THREE INUIT IN LONDON. Inuttituut, Winter, 1972. pp.16-18.
Westra, Monique
FROM DRAWING TO PRINT: PERCEPTION AND PROCESS IN CAPE DORSET
ART. Toronto, Ont. : Inuit Art Quarterly 1(3):9-10, 1986.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
CAPE DORSET. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
THE FIRST PASSIONATE COLLECTOR: THE IAN LINDSAY COLECTION OF
INUIT ART: Le premier collectionneur passionne: La Collection
d'art inuit Ian Lindsay. Winnipeg : Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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