KAKULU SAGIATUK (SAGGIAKTOK; QAQULUK; KAKOOLOOK; KAKULOOK;
SAGGIATUK) Born: February 14, 1940 Female E7-930 Resides: Cape Dorset Drawings, Prints, Sculpture "Because I am not very old, I don't usually draw the old ways, but in my mind I would like to. Because I am not very old I don't really remember. I was born on the ship, the Nascopie, when my parents were travelling around Baffin Island. I don't remember much about those early years but I have one memory of being taken by canoe from the ship to the land by a white man." Kakulu Cape Dorset Print Catalogue 1978 Kakulu's mother Ikayukta Tunnillie (1911-1980) was a graphic artist. Her husband Sagiatuk Sagiatuk is a prominent Cape Dorset printer. EXHIBITIONS: 1966, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, Cape Dorset Graphics 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, (annual collection) 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, (illustrated catalogue) 1989, 1994, 1995 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) October - November 1973 Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec Montreal, Quebec 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) 1977 The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue) July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture National Gallery of Modern Art Rome, Italy (illustrated catalogue) May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and Playing Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario November - December 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991 Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier Ville D'Avray, France 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) June - July 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic Marion Scott Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) 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) May - September 1995 Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada Institute of American Indian Arts Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue) COLLECTIONS: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 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 Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 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. 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. Goetz, Helga THE CONTEMPORARY ESKIMO PRINTS AND SCULPTURE. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1977. Gustavison, Susan J. ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS COUNCIL 1961 - 1989. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994. Institute of American Indian Arts Museum KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American Native Arts Museum, 1995. Marion Scott Gallery WOMEN OF THE NORTH: AN EXHIBITION OF ART BY INUIT WOMEN OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC: June 6-July 11, 1992. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992. (c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995 |