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LUKTA QIATSUK (LUKTAK; KIAKSHUK; LOKTA; QIATSUQ; KEATSHUK) Born: March 14, 1928 Male E7-1060
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking
Lukta's father was Kiakshuk, the well-known sculptor and graphic artist.
Two sisters, Paunichea (1920-1968) and Ishuhungitok Pootoogook, were also
graphic artists. Now Lukta and his wife Pudloo, also a sculptor, see the
artistic tradition carried on by their son Pootogook.
"Lukta has played an integral part in almost every print collection from
the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op since its spectacular debut in 1959, through
1980. He also worked with Jim Houston on the early experiments in 1957-58.
Not surprisingly, Lukta is a master printmaker and has tried his hand at
almost every medium -- stonecut, stencil, stonecut/stencil, sealskin stencil,
lino, stone rubbing and engraving, and is also a stone block cutter. He
returned to the printshop to help out in 1983 and 1984, producing 3 stonecut
and stonecut/stencil prints. Lukta is also an outstanding sculptor."
from "Canadian Inuit Print Artist/Printer Biographies"
Compiled and edited by Sandra B. Barz
EXHIBITIONS: 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, Cape Dorset Graphics
1966, 1967 (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, 1974, (illustrated catalogue)
1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984
April - May 1959 Contemporary Eskimo Sculpture
St. James Church
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
January - February 1963 ART ESKIMO
Galerie de France
Paris, France
(illustrated catalogue)
January - Feb 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)
May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - 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 - February 1971 The Art of the Eskimo
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1971 Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the
Collection of York University
Art Gallery of York University
Downsview, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec1973 - Jan1974 Les Eskimos/De Eskimo's
Studio 44 - Passage 44
Brussels, Belgium
(illustrated catalogue)
June - Sep 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)
December 1977 Animal and Man: Tradition of the Inuit
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
March - April 1979 Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative
exhibition from the collection of Professor
and Mrs. Philip Gray
Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State
University
Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
August - Sep 1979 Cape Dorset: Recent Sculpture
Gallery of the Arctic
Victoria, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterwork
Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - Oct 1980 La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1980 Lukta, Cape Dorset Sculpture/Tuu'luq, Baker Lake
Wallhangings, Drawings
Inuit Art Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
1981 Cape Dorset Sculptors and Their Sculpture
The Inuit Art Collection
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bacon
Manchester, Connecticut, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May - September 1981 Spirits and Shamans/Esprits et chamans
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
September 1981 The Year of the Bear
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
September - Oct 1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1981 The Inuit Sea Goddess
Surrey Art Gallery,
(organized to complement the Musee
des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit
of the same name)
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1982 Songs in Stone
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
February - March 1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1983 Return to Origins III
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
October - Nov1983 The Cape Dorset Print
Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Nov 1983 - Jan1984 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)
March - June 1984 The Oral Tradition
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
June - August 1984 Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Sept - Oct 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1984 Contemporary Art: Cape Dorset
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
April - May 1985 Lukta and Pootoogook Kiakshuk of Cape Dorset:
Father and Son
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(brochure)
May - September 1986 From Drawing to Print: Perceptions and
Process in Cape Dorset Art
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1986 Baffin Island Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
February - June 1987 The Lindsay and Swartz Collections:
New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
April 1988 Etchings and Engravings from Cape Dorset,
1962-1967
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
April 1988 Inuit Images in Transition
Augusta Savage Gallery,
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1988 Opening Exhibition
Nunavut Fine Arts Limited
Toronto, Ontario
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)
October - Dec 1989 Baffin Images
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
January - Sep 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
June - July 1990 Small Sculptures from across the
Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
November 1990 Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1991 Cape Dorset Sculpture
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
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)
November - Dec 1992 Sculpture Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
December 1992 Small Sculptures by Great Artists I
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
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.
November - Dec 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut:
Things from the Past
Feheley Fine Art
Toronto, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Dec 1980 - Jan 1981 Lukta Qiatsuk
Theo Waddington
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
February - March 1981 Lukta: Cape Dorset Soapstone Carvings
Theo Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
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 Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Fitzgerald Collection, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
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
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
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
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1955 Assisted in making the mace of the Northwest Territories. 1989 Attended the opening of the exhibition 'Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989'
held at the McMichael Canadian Collection.
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.
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.
CEAC [Canadian Eskimo Arts Council]
TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH LUKTA QIATSUK AND WITH HIS SON,
POOTOOGOOK QIATSUK: Interviewed by Sharon van Raalte in May
1985 in Cape Dorset, N.W.T. Ottawa: Canadian Eskimo Arts
Council in collaboration with the Inuit Art Section, INAC, and
the National Film Board of Canada, 1985.
Canadian Arctic Producers
CAPE DORSET: Recent Sculpture. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic
Producers Cooperative Limited, 1979.
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.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO ARTISTS. The Geographical Magazine, vol. 34, no. 11,
March, 1962. pp.638-650.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO GRAPHIC ART. Canadian Art 67, vol. 17, no. 1, January,
1960. pp.8-15.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO PRINTS. Don Mills; Longmans Canada, 1971.
Inuit Art Collection
CAPE DORSET: Sculptors and their Sculpture. Manchester, Conn.:
The Inuit Art Collection, 1981.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Baffin Island Sculpture. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery, 1986.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Masterwork Exhibitors of the Canadian
Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.
LaBarge, Dorothy
FROM DRAWING TO PRINT: Perception and Process in Cape Dorset
Art. Calgary, Alta. : Glenbow Museum, 1986.
Macduff, Alistair
LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By
Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.
Muehlen, Maria and Julie Hodgson, eds.
THE QIATSUK FAMILY OF SCULPTORS. INUIT ARTS AND CRAFTS
(1):20-23, 1983.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
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.
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