Biography Qavavau Manumie
October 10, 2024
QAVAVAU MANUMIE (KAVAVAOU; MANOMEE; MUNAMEE; MANNUMI; KAVAVAU)
Date of Birth: September 21, 1958 Male/Female: Male E7-1664
Place of Birth: Brandon, Manitoba Resides: Cape Dorset
Mother: Paunichea Mannomee
Father: Davidee Mannomee
EXHIBITIONS:
1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, Cape Dorset Print Collection (Printmaker)
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, (annual collection)
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, (illustrated catalogue)
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Cape Dorset Graphics
1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, (annual collection)
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 (illustrated catalogue)
March 1990 Art Inuit, l’Art des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Maison Falleur
Cambrai, France
April 1990 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Palais de l’Europe
Le Touquet, France
July 1990 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Thonon les Bains, France
November – December 1990 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Centre Culturel Canadien
Paris, France
March – April 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Le Theatre
La Ciotat, France
May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May – June 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At La Halle aux Bles
Saint Malo, France
October – December 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Galerie Maite Aubert
Le Havre, France
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
February – April 1992 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Galerie Montador
Dieppe, France
November 1993 – January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
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September – October 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo’s
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
June – September 2000 Arctic Spirit – Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
February – March 2001 Drawings from Cape Dorset
The Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
January 2003 Then and Now – Inuit Prints from 1962 – 2002
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd.
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
March – April 2003 Asingit: Inuit Art from the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Collection, University of Guelph
Naprstek Museum
Prague, Czech Republic
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April 2006 Supernatural: Inuit Fantastic Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
December 2006 – January 2007 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto Ontario
July – August, 2009 Extreme Drawing
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
November – December, 2009 New Views on Old Traditions
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
Oct 2009 – Jan 2010 Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of
Printmaking
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October, 2009 – January, 2010 The Drawing Room
Pendulum Gallery
Vancouver British Columbia
July – August 2010 Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
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July – August, 2010 The Drawing Room
Pendulum Gallery
Vancouver, BC
October, 2009 – April, 2010 Arctic Spirit:
50th Anniversary of Cape Dorset’s Kinngait Studios
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
May – June, 2010 Facing Forward – New Works from Kinngait Studios
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
June – July, 2010 North Meets South
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
July – December, 2010 Nipirasait: Many Voices
Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset
The Canadian Embassy Art Gallery
Washington, DC
January – May, 201 Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
Winnipeg, MB
April – May, 2011 Gallery Artists
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
September, 2011 Fall Migration:
A Selection of Birds in Sculpture, Prints and Drawings
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – November 2011 Surreal: Eight Artists in the Fantastical Tradition
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, Brit1sh Columbia
November, 2011 Contemporary North:
Drawings from Cape Dorset
Madrona Gallery
Victoria, British Columbia
August – September 2012 Summer Show
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
January 2013 Venture North: Drawings from Cape Dorset
Willock and Sax Gallery
Banff, Alberta
February – June 2013 Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are
We Going? Identity in Contemporary Cape Dorset Art
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
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April – June 2013 Dorset Seen
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
October – November 2013 The Hand of the Artist
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – December 2013 Sanaunguabik: Traditions and Transformations in Inuit
Art
Enterprise Square Gallery
Edmonton, Alberta
October – December 2013 Cape Dorset Prints
Gallery 210
St. Louis, Missouri
November – December 2013 Drawings: Contemporary Perspectives by Cape Dorset
Artists
The Canadian Guild of Crafts
Montreal, Quebec
January 2014 Cape Dorset: New Generation
Willock and Sax Gallery
Banff, Alberta
January – March 2014 Views from the North: Original Drawings from Cape
Dorset
Alaska on Madison
New York, New York
January – March 2014 Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of
Canada
Mendal Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
March 2014 Arctic Voices
Science North
Sudbury, Ontario
September – November, 2014 l:ke – I have motion
A Space Gallery
Toronto, ON
June – July 2015 Stonecut to Sugar-lift
Inuit Prints From the 1960’s to the Present
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 2015 – February 2016 Linked: An Exhibition to Raise Awareness about Climate
Change
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Monaco
September – October 2015 Fifteen Years: Kingait 2000-2015
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
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January – March, 2016 Floe Edge:
Contemporary Art and Collaberations
From Nunavut
Canada Gallery
Canada House
London, United Kingdom
February – March, 2016 Cape Dorset and Points South 2
Theo Gantz Studio
Beacon, New York
August – September, 2016 Neon NDN: Indigenous Pop Art
Saw Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
July – August, 2016 Arctic Wind V
Drawing from the Land
Coastal Peoples Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
October, 2016 – April, 2017 Across the Turtle’s Back: The Kampelmaster
Memorial Collection of Indigenous Art
Mackenzie Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
December, 2016 – January, 2017 The Voiced Plate:
Contemporary Inuit Prints
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
February, 2018 Manumie Brothers:
Fantastic Transformations
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
June – August, 2018 Cape Dorset Prints
Illulissat Kunstmuseum
Illulissat, Greenland
January – April, 2019 How to Breathe Forever
Onsite Gallery
OCADU
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
July – August, 2019 Continuum: The Inuit Gallery at 40
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated catalogue)
September – October, 2019 The Co-op
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September – October, 2019 Contemporary Drawings from Cape Dorset
Inuit Fine Art
Port Hope, Ontario
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September – November, 2019 Kinngait Studios Returns
Highpoint Centre for Printmaking
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September – December, 2019 Qavavau Manumie Drawings at 259 Lake Shore Blvd
Toronto Biennial of Art
Toronto, Ontario
October, 2019 – January, 2020 60 Years: WBEC Anniversary Exhibition
Colbourne St Gallerry
Fenelon Falls, Ontario
January- February, 2020 Winter 2020 Kinngait Drawings
Madrona Gallery
Victoria, British Columbia
June – September, 2020 The Penumbral Age:
Art in the Time of Planetary Change
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
March-June 2022 New Inuit Art
National Ethnographic Museum
Warsaw, Poland
September-November 2022 Busan Biennale
Canadian Pavilion
Busan, Korea
October 2022 Art Toronto
(Feheley Fine Arts Booth)
Toronto, Ontario
October-November, 2022 Drawing North: Contemporary Drawings from Kinngait
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
January-February, 2023 Collaborative Works from Kinngait
Madrona Gallery
Victoria, British Columbia
March-April 2023 Reawakening
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
April-July, 2023 Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju, Korea
May-June, 2023 Collaborative Drawings from the Kinngait Studios
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May-October, 2023 The Uses of Enchantment: Art and Environmentalism
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
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July-October 2023 Rabbit Eating Seaweed
Lotte Department Store
Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
April- May 1993 Original Drawings by Kavavaow Mannomee of Cape
Dorset
The Issacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
April – May 1994 Kavavaow Mannomee – Original Drawings
The Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
October – November 2003 Kavavaow Mannomee: Drawings
The Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Fall 2005 Birds and Spirits: Drawings by Kavavaow Mannomee
The Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
June 2008 Kavavau Manumee: A Dialogue
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, ON
(In conjunction with the World Washi Summit)
June – July, 2009 Kavavau Manumee Drawings
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
December 2015 – January 2016 Cold Dream: Drawings by Qavavau Manumee
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
January – March, 2020 A Selection of Qavavau Manumie Drawings
Pierre-Francois Oulette Art Contemporain
Montreal, Quebec
November 2020 – January 2021 Qavavau Manumee: Icons & Constellations
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
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COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection 1959 – 1999, Cape Dorset, NU
Government of Nunavut
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NWT
Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto Scarborough), ON
SELECTED REFERENCES:
Eric Clement
TROIS EXPRESSIONS POUR UNE MEME CAUSE
La Presse, February 21, 2010
Dykk, Lloyd
KAVAVAOW MANNOMEE
www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2009/09/01/kavavaow-mannomee
Kardosh, Robert
THE NEW GENERATION; A RADICAL DEFIANCE. Inuit Art Quarterly, Winter 2008.
Karlinsky, Amy
THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS AND DAUGHTERS: CONTEMPORARY INUIT
DRAWINGS. Boarder Crossings, Issue no. 105
Muscarelle Museum of Art (Willamsburg)
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman.
Williamsburg,Va.: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
Nasby, Judith
REVEALING THE TRUTH OF THE ARTIST’S HAND: Contemporary Inuit Drawings. Inuit Art
Quarterly: 9 (3), Fall 1994, pp. 4-13.
Ryan, Leslie Boyd
CAPE DORSET PRINTS: A Retrospective, Pomegranate, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,2007
QAVAVAU MUNAMIE drawings
HB Dessin/Drawing/Dibujo No 5 Structure
April, 2017
