Inuit Art Museums and Galleries

INUIT CO-OPERATIVES:

Canadian Arctic Producers

Northern Stores is their retail branch and the wholesale branch is
CAP "The first Co-ops in the north were formed in the 60s to produce and market traditional industries such as arts and crafts production. Today, Arctic Co-operatives Limited purchases art from Co-operatives and takes full responsibility for the wholesale and retail marketing of this art. Members are paid a fair price for their product and each piece is tagged to guarantee authenticity. We work exclusively with Inuit and Dene artists to promote their art and distinctive culture to collectors around the world."

Sanavik Co-op Association Ltd

Baker Lake Arts and Crafts

Cape Dorset, West Baffin

Oomingmak             1(888) 360-9665 (outside Alaska)

604 H Street, Anchorage, Alaska

Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts 867-473-8870

Peter Wilson, Manager PO 453, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, X0A 0R0
I visited this extraordinary exhibition-sales and studio in 2003. It has left an unforgettable impression. The work produced by the women in the weave shop will hopefully be fully supported financially so that they can continue to transform works of art by renowned Pangnirtung artists like Malaya Akulukjuk and Joel Maniapik into soft art with a strong visual, textural and aesthetic impact.

Inuit Art Shop            613-224-8189 EXT.22

2081 Merivale Road,
Ottawa, Ont. Canada K2G 1G9

The Inuit Art Shop is operated by the Inuit Art Foundation, whose Board of Directors consist mainly of Inuit. They have been helping Inuit artists by supporting unique initiatives for many years. The Inuit Art Quarterly has earned international renown for the quality and reliability of its content.
2005 | Arts Alive 05, April 30 & May 1, 2005

PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES: NORTHERN CANADA

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
           867-873-7551

Contact
PO 1320
Yellowknife, NT
X1A 2L9

Inuit Cultural Institute Collection Art Displays
"These stone carvings are part of a collection which has been transferred to the Inuit Cultural Institute (ICI) from the federal department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND). It is being held by the Northern Heritage Centre until community facilities are developed for its storage and display."

PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES: CANADA

Avataq Cultural Institute            

avataq@avataq.qc.ca
P.O. Box 230            819-254-8919
Inukjuak, Nunavik
J0M 1M0 or
Westmount, Québec           toll-free (Canada only) 1-800-361-5029
215 Redfern Ave., Suite 400          514-989-9031
Westmount, Québec H3Z 3L5

The Nunavik Inuit Art Collection (N.I.A.C.)
"Nunavik Inuit Art Collection (N.I.A.C) Avataq is the safe-keeper of many precious works of visual art and traditional Inuit artifacts. The Nunavik Inuit Art Collection (N.I.A.C.) is a continuously growing collection of over 1300 objects. This collection is held in trust for all Nunavik Inuit.The N.I.A.C. began in the late 1980's with a large transfer of historically important works from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The collection includes prestigious works of historical importance and pieces with cultural significance for Nunavimmiut."

Canadian Museum of Civilization            (819) 776-7000 or 1-800-555-5621
TDD: (819) 776-7003

web@civilization.ca
100 Laurier Street
P.O. Box 3100, Station B
Gatineau, Quebec J8X 4H2

Virtual exhibitions
2002-3 Nuvisavik: Inuit Tapestries from Arctic Canada
2001 Canadian Inuit History: A Thousand Year Odyssey
1999 Iqqaipaa
1997 Threads of the Land: Aanatujut: Pride in Women's Work: Copper and Caribou Inuit Clothing Traditions
1997 The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic: From Ancient Times to 1902
1996-7 "Lost Visions, Lost Dreams" The ancient peoples of the Arctic: Dorset and Thule peoples. This is a five star site with generous content and solid academic material based on the work of Dr. Patricia Sutherland and Dr. Robert McGhee.

Carleton University Art Gallery           613-520-2120

St. Patrick's Building, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 5B6
Sandra Dyck, Acting Director

2002 Creatures of the World: Animals in Inuit Art" Selections from The Dr. Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art

McMichael Canadian Art Collection            905-893-1121 or toll free 1-888-213-1121

10365 Islington Avenue
Kleinburg, ON

Permanent collection of Inuit art
2004 Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth & Reality | September 18 to December 12, 2004
2001 Elsie Klengenberg: The Legend of Uvajuq

February 3 to March 25, 2001. Organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Circulated by the Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. "The exhibition Elsie Klengenberg: The Legend of Uvajuq (pronounced "oo-va-yook") has deep roots in generations and generations of oral legend. The beginnings stretch back to a time when people and animals lived in such harmony that
they could speak to each other. The events that long ago shattered this peaceful co-existence have been visually translated from oral legend by Holman artist Elsie Klengenberg into twenty stencil prints commissioned for the premises of the Kitikmeot Heritage Society in Cambridge Bay."

1999 Kids' Views of Nunavut 1999 Part of the "Learning through Art" program

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Canadian Collection            (514) 285-2000 or 1-800-899-MUSE

1379 Sherbrooke Ouest
P.O. Box 3000, Station "H"
Montreal, Quebec
H3G 1K3

Permanent Canadian Collection including Inuit art

Musée de la Civilization            418-643-2158, sans frais Canada et Étais-Unis 1 866 710-8031

85, rue Dalhousie
C.P. 155, succ. B
Québec (Québec)

G1K 7A6
mcq ATmcq.org

Nous, les premières nations Une grande exposition permanente sur les nations autochtones au Musée de la civilisation à Québec

National Gallery of Canada            613-9990-1985 or 1-800-319-2787

380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 9N4
info@gallery.ca

2005 March-June ItuKiagâtta: Inuit Art from the TD Collection "The National Gallery of Canada is proud to present this special exhibition featuring over 45 sculptures from the TD’s collection of Inuit art. ItuKiagâtta, is an Inuit expression: “How it amazes us,” that reflects the quality of the art and the celebratory nature of the exhibition. With works from the historic period to the mid-20th century, the collection represents an early, vital period in the development of Inuit art. The exhibition, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the TD Bank Financial Group, will be circulated to five venues across Canada after its presentation in Ottawa. An illustrated catalogue complements the exhibition."
2004-5 Teeth and Tusks: Sculpture from the Arctic " 30 April 2004 – January 2005 | "Walrus and narwhal tusk, whale and bear teeth – the luminous, smooth surface and durability of ivory make it a preferred carving material in the Arctic. This exhibition illustrates the many creative responses to this beautiful, challenging medium."
2004 Every Picture Tells a Story by Josie Papialuk |7 November 2003 - 18 april 2004 | "Josie Pamiutu Papialuk was born in 1918 near Issuksivit Lake, inland from the present-day community of Puvirnituq in the Nunavik region of Quebec. By the time he was in his sixties, he had lived through several major transitions: from subsistence hunting to trapping and trading furs for store-goods, to the making of sculptures, prints, and drawings in order to survive in a cash economy."
2002-5 ongoing Art of this Land "The installation of wampum belts, bark bitings, snowshoes, beaded clothing, sculpture, and paintings by Aboriginal artists from ancient times to the 1970s transforms the Canadian galleries room by room."
2002 Upcoming "Kenojuak Ashevak: To Make Something Beautiful"

April 12, 2002 - October 18, 2002. "Companion of the Order of Canada (1982), recipient of the Aboriginal Arts Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement (1995), member of the Royal Academy of Arts (1974), and recent inductee into Canada's Walk of Fame (2001), Kenojuak Ashevak is probably Inuit art's best-known personality. For this woman who first began drawing at age thirty, it is a status gained primarily as a result of her impressive graphic oeuvre created over more than forty years."
2002 Kiakshuk: Images by a Hunter Artist

"April 26, 2001 - January 6, 2002.
"This exhibition includes some 13 prints by Kiakshuk that capture the full range of his experiences as an Inuit who lived on the cusp of acculturation. Born in northern Quebec around 1886, Kiakshuk moved with his family to Baffin Island, in the Andrew Gordon Bay area east of Cape Dorset, in the early 1900s. It is said that in his younger years he was a shaman."
1999-2000 Carving an Identity: Inuit Sculpture from the Permanent Collection.

26 November 1999 - 26 November 2000. "For over four thousand years, Inuit and their ancestors – of the Thule, Dorset, and other ancient Eskimo cultures – have been carving expertly. Included among the things
they produced are exquisitely crafted objects, many filled with aesthetic and spiritual significance. By the mid-eighteenth century, Inuit were also making carvings to trade
with the various outsiders who came to their lands. Their ivory figures and models travelled to all corners of the globe, opening the most recent chapter in the story of
Inuit creative endeavour."
National Gallery of Canada Cybermuse

Cyber collection
Permanent Inuit Art Collection

Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto, ON
"Pillage and Profit: Legal and Illegal Trade in the Inuit and First Nations Art"

"Bone Snow Knives and Tin Oil Lamps: Enduring Traditions Among Canada's First Peoples"

ROM: A School kit

University of Guelph MacDonald Stewart Art Centre

2004 Marion Tuu’luq |
May 6 to July 18, 2004 | "The works in this exhibition were located by Marie Bouchard in both public and private collections throughout North America, including two wall hangings from the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre collection: Tele-Vision Spirits (c 1980) and Composition (c 1981). Bouchard says that ‘it was a deeply satisfying journey honouring the work of a woman she respects as an artist and loves as a friend.’ The exhibition Marion Tuu’luq features art work showing the particular experience and remarkable imagination of one Inuit woman whose ‘singular vision celebrated the eternal recurrence of life and the conviction that what the Inuit dread most – extinction – will not occur.’"
2002-3 Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Recent Wall Hangings
2001-2004 Nunavut Artists 1950-2000 2001 to July 30, 2004. | "The exhibition Inuit Art 1950-2000 was curated by Art Centre Director Judith Nasby from the Art Centre’s significant collection representing 50 years of Inuit drawings, sculpture, prints and wall hangings. The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre is recognized internationally for its research, publications and touring exhibitions of Inuit art which have been shown throughout Canada, the United States, Denmark, Iceland, India and Austria."
1999-2000 Masterworks from Nunavut | September 23, 1999 - August 04, 2000
1999-2000 Where Myth, Dream and Reality Intersect: The Art of Irene Avaalaaqiaq
| September 23, 1999 to February 20, 2000 | "On Tuesday, October 19, 1999, the University of Guelph presented Inuit artist Irene Avaalaaqiaq the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the development of Inuit Art and her leadership role within the Nunavut community of Baker Lake. The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre nominated Avaalaaqiaq for the honorary degree. Her address was given in Inuktitut with translation by Sally Qimminu’naaq Webster, Inuit Art dealer from Baker Lake. Avaalaaqiaq presented her convocation address to graduates of the College of Arts and the Ontario Agricultural College. In her speech, she commented on aspects of her life and her education while living a nomadic life on the land."
1998-9 "New Acquisitions in Inuit Art" | September 24, 1998 to July 25, 1999
1997-1998 "Images of the Child in Inuit Art" | September 30, 1997 to July 26, 1998
1995 "Qamanittuaq(Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists" | April 27 to September 10, 1995
1994 "Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art" | Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art
June 11 to July 17, 1994

University of Lethbridge

Lethbridge, Alberta

The World Around Me

Musée McCord Museum

Inuit

Using their search engine nine digitized documented images are available. However, information about artifacts is sparse. It is not specific even about geographic origin.

Simon Fraser University: Archaelogy Museum

Winnipeg Art Gallery: Inuit Art Collection

"The Winnipeg Art Gallery has had the longest continuous association with Inuit art as a field of collection and research of any other public art museum. The Gallery began to collect Inuit art in the mid-1950s and now has a collection of over 10,000 artworks, making it the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world."
Winnipeg Art Gallery: Recent acquisitions
"Kittigazuit – 1918, BY ABRAHAM ANGHIK. From January 15, 1989 to March 19, 1989, The Winnipeg Art Gallery presented Out of Tradition, featuring the sculptures of Abe Anghik and his brother, David Ruben Piqtoukun."
"Unikaat"
"Inuit Woman: life and Legend in Art" url error http://www.wag.greatart.nt.ca

PUBLIC GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS: FRANCE

Virtual Museum of Inuit Art: France

PUBLIC GALLERIES: UNITED STATES

Aboriginal Whaling Museum

NPS Alaska GIS: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Dennos Museum Centre: Arctic Spirit

url error http://www.nmc.edu/arctic_spirit/acc0224.htmlNorthwestern Michigan College: Traverse City, Michigan

State Museum: Ice Age

COMMERCIAL GALLERIES

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Musee d'Art Inuit Brousseau39 rue St-Louis, Québec City, Québec,G1R 4S7Canada - 418-694-1828 - Contact

This unique museum whose high acclaim is well-deserved combines a sales-exhibition area with a public museum flavour. Pieces are selected with curatorial saavy. The attached museum provides a cultural and historical context for the work, is designed to nurture an audience for the Inuit art knowledge community.

Canadian Guild of Crafts QuébecThis institution has been involved in the promotion of Inuit art since the early decades of the 20th century.

Dennos Museum Center

Arctic Spirit, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan USA

Duane's Antiques

Esmay Fine Art

Geocities: Inuit

firstpeoplesgallery

Rocky River, Ohio

Kudlik Art Inuit:Quebec City

Galerie Elca London.

"Galerie Elca London is one of the oldest art galleries in Montreal, and Montreal’s only gallery devoted exclusively to the art of Canada’s Inuit. Established in 1960,
the gallery has become renowned for it’s collection of museum quality Inuit carvings, tapestries, and limited edition graphics selected for the discerning collector. Member: Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada" Includes map of Canada's north.

Galerie Inuit Pdls

Timmins-based service est. 1995.

Gallery of the Midnight SunYellowknife

Houston North Gallery

"Welcome to the Houston North Gallery Web Site. I'm John Houston, owner of
Houston North Gallery, and director of the virtual gallery. Houston North Gallery, located in Canada's historic seaport, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, first began serving its artists and the art
loving public with youthful optimism and great excitement at an Open House June 21, 1981. Since the passing in 1997 of my mother, Alma Houston - native Nova Scotian, Inuit art pioneer, and co-owner of the gallery, we have rededicated ourselves to providing a home, a showplace, and a
learning centre for Inuit art, plus a careful selection of the Nova Scotian art that best complements it. Our gallery is physically located in Nova Scotia, Canada, in the town of Lunenburg."

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd

206 Cambie Street, Gastown, Vancouver, BC. "Presenting Canada’s foremost collection of masterwork Inuit art and exceptional Northwest Coast Native art since 1979. We continue our tradition of presenting
important exhibitions of Canadian art, featuring new works by senior artists and exploring the work of the talented next generation of artists."

The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery

Now closed.

"The Isaacs Gallery - 1955 to 1991. Av Isaacs opened the Isaacs Gallery in 1955 to represent contemporary Canadian art. In 1970, a separate gallery was opened. The Innuit Gallery was the first gallery devoted exclusively to Inuit art. The gallery specialized in contemporary sculpture, prints, drawings, and wall hangings by Inuit artists from across Canada. It also featured early North American Indian art and artifacts and Inuit antiquities. The Innuit Gallery (since 1991 called Isaacs/Innuit Gallery) collection had an International reputation. Six formal exhibitions organized each year placed important works with National and International corporations and museums."

Marion Scott Gallery

308 Water Street Vancouver, BC
604-685-1934
Current exhibition: 2005 Summer "Jutai Toonoo"

This gallery's selection of works presents numerous contemporary pieces deserving of long term public exposure in public museums. The gallery owner's vast knowledge of Inuit art is solidly rooted in this intergenerational family business that is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year(1975-2005). The longevity leads to well-deserved confidence and a willingness to promote quality works of art that are not yet properly acknowledged in the Inuit art knowledge community. I would highly recommend this gallery for fledgling and experienced passionate collectors.

Northern Arts Inuit Art Gallery           204.480.0699

This is a new Inuit art gallery. The owner is Jody Baty.

Northern Country Arts

"Northern Country Arts was established in 1993 and sells Inuit art at both wholesale and retail rates. Its sister company, Arctic Express Ltd, offers courier and shipping services worldwide."

Nunavut Gallery Inc.

Winnipeg, MB.
This site offers artists' biographies and illustrations of earlier outstanding prints by renowned artists such as Jessie Oonark and Luke Anguhadluq. "The gallery's director, Richard Kroeker has over ten years experience in the field of Inuit and contemporary art. Richard has been involved at the Winnipeg Art Gallery as a tour guide for over nine years, and is presently in charge of Winnipeg Friends of the Inuit Group. He has also traveled in the arctic."

Upstairs Gallery

"Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Celebrating over thirty years in business the Upstairs Gallery is proud to represent national and local artists. Our specialty is Inuit art, and our large selection includes prints, drawings, wallhangings, sculpture from all areas of the Canadian Arctic." The Upstairs Gallery is a member of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada. This is an excellent site, generous with both images and information.

Cape Dorset Print Collection 2001

Sanajuvut: Inuit Fashion Show

Inuit Art Source Gallery

John duVal, Inuit Art Source, La Jolla California, USA

Waddington's Auctionners

WarkInuit - Specializing in Inuit Wallhangings

Kanata, ON
Contact

Whyte Gallery of the Rocky Mountains

"The Art Collection is made up of works of historical and contemporary nature that support the mandate, vision statement, and collection policy of the Whyte Museum (the artist must have lived in the area for at least one year or have worked in the region over a number of years or have used the area as inspiration or subject matter in his/her work)."

Artists' list including Inuit artists