INUIT ART SOURCE – Since 1987
KELLYPALIK QIMIRPIK (QIMERPIK; KIMIRPIK; KELLYPALIK; KELLY)
Date of Birth: December 16, 1948 Male/Female: Male E7-754
Place of Birth: Iqirasaq; Also lives in: Markham Bay, Resides: Cape Dorset
Mother: Nirukasiak
Father: Qimirpik
EXHIBITIONS:
Our Land Transforming: Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of the Inuit
Arctic Raven Gallery
One Front Street, Second Floor
POB 2139
Friday Harbor, Washington, U.S.A.
(brochure)
April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
Baffin Regional School
Iqaluit, NWT
1982 Cape Dorset Artists
The Turtle
Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A.
February – March 1984 Canadian Inuit Art
Sponsored by Canadian Arctic Producers at City Hall
Nuuk/Godthab, Greeland
February 1985 – April 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa
Presented by Commerzbank
Frankfurt, Germany
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1988 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Presented by Inuit Galerie, Mannheim in Gutersloh
Gutersloh, Germany
March 1989 White Lords of the Arctic: Bears in Stone and Bone
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
May1989 Spirit of the Birds
Gallery of the Arctic
Victoria, British Columbia
(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, N.Y., U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June – July 1990 Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
February 1991 Animals of the Arctic
Arctic Inuit Art
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
February 1992 The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960 – 1980
Westdale Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
October – November 1992 Arctic Ice: Sculpture in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, NWT
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April 1993 The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
October – November 1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset
Art Space
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
April – May 1994 Mythic Image
Ancestral Spirits Galley
Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.A.
August – October 1994 Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic
Bayly Art Museum
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
November – December 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
April 1995 Inuit Mythology
Arctic Experience
Hamilton, Ontario
April – June 1995 The Birds of Cape Dorset: A collection of sculpture by 32 Cape Dorset Carvers
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
September 1995 Sedna: Spirit of the Sea
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
November – December 1995 Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
(brochure)
November – December 1996 Emerging Spirit
Banff Centre
Organized by Northern Art Impressions, Inc.
Banff, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April 1997 Ashevak Tunnillie & Kellypalik Qimirpik
Sculpture
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
April 1997 Faces, Masks, Heads
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
June 1997 Singing and Dancing and Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
June – July 2000 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Exhibition title: Art in Stone
Canadian Arctic Gallery (Grunder)
Hammerstrasse 50, Basel, Switzerland
(illustrated catalogue)
February 2001 Living Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
April – May 2001 Spirit of the Walrus
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
September – October 2002 Imagination
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Grunder
Basel, Switzerland
October – November 2003 Vision and From
The Norman Zepp – Judith Varga Collection
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Spring 2005 Cape Dorset Sculpture
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November 2005 Unique Visions
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
February – March 2007 The Arctic Hare
The Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
October 2007 Masterworks VI
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
April – May, 2008 Arctic Wind – An Expression of Naturalism
Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
March – June, 2008 The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture
The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October, 2008 Transfigurations
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
January – February, 2009 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
March – April, 2009 Arctic Wildlife
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
November – December, 2009 Form and Vision
The Innuit Gallery and
Jonathon Bancroft – Snell Gallery
London, Ontario
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)
October, 2010 Dancing, Drumming, Singing
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
December, 2010 Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
May, 2010 – January, 2011 Highlights of Inuit Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
July 1989 Kelly Qimirpik
Eskimo Art Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
November 1994 Kellypalik Qimirpik
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
June – August 1995 Images of Transformation: Kellypalik Qimirpik
Gallery Phillip
Don Mills, Ontario
May 1997 Kelly Qimirpik
The Arctic Experience Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
COLLECTIONS:
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, NWT
Musee d’art Inuit Brousseau, Quebec City, Quebec
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS:
1993 Attended a three-week sculpture workshop in May at The Carving Studio in West Rutland, Vermont sponsored by Inuit Art Foundation. While ther he also gave instructions at a soapstone carving workshop.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks. Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.: Amway Corporation, 1989.
URGENT PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY ARTISTS: [An abbreviated transcript of discussions between directors and staff of the Inuit Art Foundation and recipients of Vermont…Studio scholarships]. Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 24 – 33.
Barz, Sandra
CANADIAN INUIT PRINT ARTIST/PRINTER BIOGRAPHIES. New York: Arts and Culture of the North, 1990.
Canadian Art Producers
CANADIAN INUIT ART. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, n.d.
Gallery of the Arctic
SPIRIT OF THE BIRDS. Victoria, British Columbia: Gallery of the Arctic, 1989.
Hessel, Ingo
ARCTIC SPIRIT: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, Heard Museum/Douglas & McIntyre, 2006.
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
MONUMENTS IN STONE: Recent Sculpture from Cape Dorset. Toronto, Ontario: The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1988.
Marion Scott Gallery
ARCTIC ICE: SCULPTURE IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. Vancouver, British Columbia: Marion Scott
Gallery, 1992.
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