ENOOK MANOMIE
(ENOOKE; INNUK; INOOK; MUNAMEE; MANNUMEE; MUNOMIE; INUK; MANOMEE)
Born: July 26, 1941 Male E7-828
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Resides: Iqaluit; also lived in Victoria, British Columbia
Sculpture, Jewellery, Drawings
Enook's father Mannumi Shaqu, his brother Towatuga Sagouk, and his sister
Sita Saila, are also artists.
EXHIBITIONS: December 1968 Arts and Crafts Carving Competition
held in Iqaluit
Northwest Territories
1975 Sculpture from Frobisher Bay
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)
April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
Baffin Regional School
Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
Mar 1977 - Feb 1978 The Things That Make Us Beautiful/Nos Parures
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
September 1977 Wildlife of the Arctic: Eskimo Sculpture
Pucker/Safrai Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1978 Works by Inuit and Indian Artists
Tundra Gallery
Arctic Arts Ltd.
Edmonton, Alberta
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1979 In Celebration
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
May 1980 Omingmak - The Muskox
National Museum of Natural Sciences
Ottawa, Ontario
1982 Baffin Island Graphics
Arts Induvik Canada Inc.
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1983 - Jan 1984 Inuit Art at Rideau Hall
Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
Nov 1983 - Mar 1985 Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Ottawa, presented at the
General Assembly Building, United Nations
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
Nov - Dec 1984 Exhibition of Works by Enook Manomie and
Towaktugak Sako (both sons of Manomie Sako)
Pitakvik Galleries
Calgary, Alberta
1987 Collectable Sculpture 1987
Webster Galleries
Calgary, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1988 Iqaluit
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(catalogue)
June 1988 Father and Sons
Gallery Indigena
Waterloo, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
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)
March - April 1993 The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto
Sep - Nov 1993 The Bear: Sculpture
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Jan - Feb 1996 Not Just a Dancing Step...
Galerie D'Art Vincent
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: September 1979 Enook Manomie of Frobisher Bay
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
October 1981 Enook Manomie of Frobisher Bay
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
COLLECTIONS: Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1978 Enook's work was included in a slide presentation entitled 'Sculpture Today/
Canada', held at Ontario Place, Toronto, in honour of the 10th International
Sculpture Conference.
1982 Commissioned by Arts Induvik Canada Inc., Frobisher Bay, to prepare a set of
prints to be included in their 1982 Baffin Island Graphics collection.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit
Masterworks. Ada, Michigan: Amway Corporation, 1989.
Canada. Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs
INUIT ARTS AND CRAFTS/: L'ART ET L'ARTISANAT INUIT. Ottawa :
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1983.
Galerie d'art Vincent
NOT JUST A DANCING STEP = PLUS QU'UN PAS DE DANSE: An Inuit Art
Exhibition organized by Galerie d'art Vincent, Chateau Laurier,
Ottawa, Canada = Une exposition d'art Inuit... Ottawa: Galerie
d'art Vincent [1996].
Pucker/Safrai Gallery
WILDLIFE OF THE ARCTIC: Eskimo Sculpture. Boston:
Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 1977.
Routledge, Marie
INUIT ART IN THE 1970s/L'ART INUIT ACTUEL: 1970-79. Kingston,
Ont. : The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1979.
Shaqu, Mannumi
FATHER AND SONS: [An exhibition by Mannumi Shaqu, Enook Manomie
and Towatuga Sagouk.]. Kitchener: Gallery Indigena, 1988.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
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