PETER SEVOGA (TELOOGAYAK; SIVURAQ; SEEVOGA; SUVURAQ;
TELOOGAHYAK; TALUGIYAK; SIVUGAK)
Born: July 28, 1940 Male E2-225
Resides: Baker Lake
Sculpture, Printmaking
In 1965, Sevoga participated in an experimental print workshop in Baker
Lake as both artist and printmaker.
EXHIBITIONS:
Aug - Sept 1968 Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and
Paintings of Norval Morrisseau
Art Association of Newport
Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
June - July 1970 Sculpture
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
a competition/exhibition organized as
a contribution to the Centennial of the
N.W.T.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 Three Artists from Baker Lake
Mazelow Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
1974 Stone Sculpture of Baker Lake Eskimos
Pucker/Safrai Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
March 1974 Baker Lake Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
March - July 1976 The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1985, Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker)
1986, 1987, 1988, 1990 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1977 Sheokju of Cape Dorset & Eleven
Sculptors of Baker Lake
Victor Waddington Gallery
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1977 The Eskimo Woman: her life and dreams
in prints and sculpture
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Aug - Nov 1978 The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct - Nov 1978 Eskimo Art
Embankment Gallery
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
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)
January - February 1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
February - March 1980 Collectors' Choice - An Exhibition of
Important Inuit Sculpture
Waddington Galleries
Toronto, Ontario
April - May 1980 Baker Lake - Drawings, Sculpture,
Tapestries
Theo Waddington
Toronto, Ontario
August - October 1980 The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood
To Be Full
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February 1981 Baker Lake Sculpture: Power and Restraint
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
1982 Peter and Thomas Sevoga, Graphics from
Baker Lake and Holman Island 1982
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
(illustrated catalogue)
September 1983 People of the Caribou
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
October 1984 Images of the Far North
Studio Art Gallery,
State University of New York
Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1984 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Inuit Galerie, Mannheim
held at Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Institute, University of Siegen
at Villa Waldrich
Siegen, Germany
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov 1984 - Feb 1985 Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper:
Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections
Edmonton Art Gallery
Edmonton, Alberta
1985 - 1986 Sanaugasi Takujaksat: A Travelling
Celebration of Inuit Sculpture
Presented by Canadian Arctic Producers
Ltd., with the assistance of
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada,
Ottawa
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
October 1985 Our Hoods are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
May - June 1986 The Spirit of the Land
The Koffler Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
July - August 1986 Keewatin Sculpture: Reflections of
the Spirit
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Jul 1986 - Feb 1988 Selections from the John and Mary Robertson
Collection of Inuit Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Aug - Sept 1988 Mother & Child
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
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 Baker Lake Sculpture
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1990 Baker Lake
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1990 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape
Dorset 1990
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Centre Culturel Canadien
Paris, France
April - May 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Palais de l'Europe
Le Touquet, France
May - June 1991 Mother and Child: Sculpture and Prints
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
May - August 1992 Arctic Wildlife: The Art of the Inuit
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1996 Major/Minor
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Sept - Oct 1983 Peter Sevoga
Raven Gallery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
COLLECTIONS:
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
1965 Participated in an experimental graphic workshop in Baker Lake (unpublished).
1992 Peter attended a Baker Lake carving workshop led by David Ruben Piqtoukun.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art
of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
Art Association of Newport
AN EXHIBITION OF ESKIMO SCULPTURE, ESKIMO PRINTS
AND PAINTINGS OF NORVAL MORRISSEAU:
From the Collection Cartier, Montreal, Canada.
Newport, R.I.: Art Association of Newport, 1968.
Blodgett, Jean
SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON
COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE.
Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1986.
Driscoll, Bernadette
THE INUIT AMAUTIK: I Like My Hood to be Full. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1981.
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
BAKER LAKE SCULPTURE: Power and Restraint. Toronto: The Innuit
Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1981.
Inuit Galerie
DIE KUNST AUS DER ARKTIS. Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany
: Inuit Galerie, 1984.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
BAKER LAKE. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery of Vancouver [1990].
Macduff, Alistair
LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By
Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.
Marion Scott Gallery
INSPIRATION: FOUR DECADES OF SCULPTURE BY CANADIAN INUIT:
Curated by Norman Zepp. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery [1996].
Raven Gallery
PETER SEVOGA. Minneapolis: Raven Gallery, 1983.
Sanavik Cooperative
SCULPTURE 1974. Baker Lake: Sanavik Cooperative, 1974.
Swinton, Nelda
LA FAUNE DE L'ARCTIQUE = ARCTIC WILDLIFE: L'art des Inuit = the
Art of the Inuit. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
1993.
Upstairs Gallery
BAKER LAKE SCULPTURE. Winnipeg: The Upstairs Gallery 1989.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
ESKIMO CARVERS OF KEEWATIN N.W.T. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art
Gallery with the Department of Northern Affairs and National
Resources, 1964.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
THE ZAZELENCHUK COLLECTION OF ESKIMO ART. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978.
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