Biography Ningeosiaq Ashoona
NINGEOOSIAK ASHOONA
Date of Birth: December 20, 1979 Male/Female: Female
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother: Mayoreak Ashoona
Father: Kaka Ashoona
Influenced by her father, Ningeoosiak started to carve around 1998.
EXHIBITIONS:
July 1 – September 2006 Out of the Ordinary
Cape Dorset Sculpture
Gallery Indigena
Stratford, Ontario
2006 Rhythms in Motion
Galerie d’art Vincent
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
December 2006 – January 2007 Small Sculpture by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
January – February, 2009 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
March – April, 2009 Arctic Wildlife
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
December, 2009 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
October, 2010 Arctic Wind III: An Expression of Survival
Coastal Peoples Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
January – February, 2011 Small Treasures 2011
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
April, 2011 Flight Across the Tundra
Balzac Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
April 2011 Continuum
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
June – July, 2011 New Beginnings in the Arctic
Balzac Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September, 2011 Fall Migration:
A Selection of Birds in Sculpture, Prints and Drawings
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October, 2011 Stone and Paper
Cape Dorset 2011
Native Art Gallery
Oakville, ON
(illustrated catalogue)
January, 2012 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
August, 2012 Faces of Baffin
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
December, 2012 – March, 2013 Telling Stories:
Inuit Art from Cape Dorset
Toronto Pearson Airport: Terminal 1
Toronto, Ontario
September – October, 2012 Ice and Sand
Coombe Farm Gallery
Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
(illustrated catalogue)
November 2014 – January 2015 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto Ontario
December, 2015 Art Forms Winter 2015
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 2015 – January 2016 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto Ontario
January – February, 2017 Small treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
February, 2018 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
February, 2019 Life in Stone VI
Steinbrueck Native Gallery
Seattle, Washington
July – August, 2019 Continuum: The Inuit Gallery at 40
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated catalogue)
February, 2020 Life in Stone VII
Steinbrueck Native Gallery
Seattle, Washington
January – February, 2020 Small Treasures 2020
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
October – November, 2020 Kinngait Calling
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
August 2020 Kinngait (Cape Dorset) Sculptures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
December, 2021 – January, 2022 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
March – May, 2022 New Inuit Art:
Contemporary Art from Kinngait
National Museum of Ethnography
Warsaw, Poland
January – February, 2023 20th Annual Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
January – February, 2023 Collaborative Works from Kinngait
Madrona Gallery
Victoria, British Columbia
February 2023 SPRING/BREAK Art Show
(Claire Foussard Booth)
Los Angeles, California
March-April 2023 Reawakening
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
June 2007 Ningeosiak Ashoona
Transformations
Gallery Philip
Toronto, ON
(illustrated catalogue)
July – August, 2018 Ningeosiak Ashoona
Form and Balance
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
