A third-generation artist from Cape Dorset, Goota Ashoona is a carver of traditional Inuit whalebone and stone sculptures. In 2008 the family studio held the exhibition The Gift from Haida Gwaii, whic [..]

A master carver of traditional Inuit sculpture, Kiugak Ashoona received the Order of Canada in 2000 and is among the most significant figures in contemporary northern art. A second-generation Inuit ar [..]

A graphic artist and master carver whose mother was the pioneering graphic artist Sheouak Parr. After the death of her husband, the carver Qaqaq Ashoona, Mayureak moved from their camp on southern Baf [..]

A carver from Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Napachie Ashoona is the son of the artists Sorosilutu and Kiugak Ashoona. His figurative sculptures are carved from serpentine, a stone indigenous to Baffin [..]

An acclaimed carver and expert hunter from Cape Dorset, Ohito Ashoona is the son of Qaqaq Ashoona. He learned his art form at age twelve and in 2002 was awarded a National Aboriginal Achievement Award [..]

A major figure in the history of Cape Dorset graphic art, Pitseolak made well over eight thousand drawings during her twenty-five-year career. Beginning in 1960, her enormously popular, frequently aut [..]

A hunter and trapper born in Ikirasak, a camp on southern Baffin Island, who began carving in his mid-twenties. Qaqaq Ashoona carved his human and animal figures using only hand tools and notably work [..]

A third-generation artist from Cape Dorset, Shuvinai Ashoona creates unconventional and imaginative graphic works that are widely collected and exhibited. Her work ranges from intensely coloured and i [..]

A prominent Cape Dorset artist who was encouraged as a young woman by her mother-in-law, Pitseolak Ashoona. Early on, Sorosilutu Ashoona was drawn to the colours that could be achieved through printma [..]