Want to see some more Inuit art? Museums and galleries often create special exhibits. Here are some new and/or temporary exhibits featuring Inuit art that are happening now (or coming up in the next year) in museums and art galleries. (This will be updated as information on new exhibits is available.) Check our Resources page for a list other of galleries that have permanent collections of Inuit Art on display.
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Currently on exhibit
At the WAG/Qaumajuq in Winipeg: Inuit Sanaugangit – Art Across Time (thru Feb 2025)
This enormous (and slightly overwhelming) exhibit inclues nearly 400 works produced by artists from Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. It is largely made up of contemporary work from the across the Canadian arctic, but also includes older pieces and a few archeaological items. It’s a stunning exhibit that is well worth traveling for. Check the Wag/Quamajuq website for more information.
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto: Lucy Qinnuayuak (thru Feb 5, 2025)
“One of the first artists to ever begin creating works at the print studio in Kinngait, Nunavut in the 1960s, Lucy Qinnuayuak’s colourful depictions of birds and scenes of domestic life bring to life the world as she saw it. In this exhibition of 20 works on paper, the viewer is invited to explore the evolution of Qinnuayuak’s style, from her concept drawings to stonecut prints, many of which include her much-loved owls.” Check the AGO website for more information.
At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ UUMMAQUTIK ESSENCE OF LIFE (Ongoing)
Discover MMRA’s new presentation of the Inuit art collection!
With remodeled and expanded galleries, the museum’s ongoing Inuit art galleries bring together an extensive variety of works – prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures and installations – some of which are recent acquisitions. The current exhibit includes 60 works – prints, drawings, textile works, photographs, paintings, sculptures and installations – by artists such as Siku Allooloo, Darcie Bernhardt, Lucassie Echalook, Charlie Alakkariallak Inukpuk, Niap, Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Joe Talirunili and Jessica Winters.
“Life is shared, spread and extinguished, only to foster more life. Energy is relayed in all manner of directions and combinations: from person to person; person to place; fauna to flora; flora to fungi. We all keep each other alive. The artists whose works comprise the exhibition are from distinct communities across Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homelands in Canada), each in turn bringing their specific
cultural nuances. Together, their artworks share a story of life’s cyclical nature through depictions of the renewal and transformation that inhabit the daily lives of every one of us.”
Check the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts website for more information on visiting this exhibit or check the exhibit press kit for detailed information on this exhibit.
Future exhibitions
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto:
Kenojuak Ashevak – Highlights from the Dr. Ronald M. Haynes Collection (Opening Feb 15, 2025)
“14 prints by renowned Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013) are featured, including The Woman Who Lives in the Sun, one of the most iconic and recognizable works in Inuit art history.” Check the AGO website for more information.
Surusilutu Ashoona (Opening July 2025)
“In her irreverent prints and drawings, Kinngait artist Surusilutu Ashoona (1941-2011) illustrates a world both fantastical and banal, where animals wear clothing while women sew, juggle and rest in equal measure. Featuring 17 works from the AGO’s foundational Inuit art collections . . . . this exhibition marks the late artists’ first ever solo exhibition at the AGO.” Check the AGO website for more information.
New Acquisitions – Selections from the Dr. Ronald M. Haynes Collection (Opening November 2025)
Featuring 22 works by 16 Inuit artists, including works on paper by renowned artists Pitseolak Ashoona, Jessie Oonark, and Pudlo Pudlat, as well as small soapstone sculptures by Mathew Aqigaaq, George Arluk, Seepee Ippellie, and Nootaraloo. Check the AGO website for more information.
At the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Toronto
Worlds on Paper – Drawings from Kinngait (March – August 2025)
“The recent digitization of the Kinngait Drawings Archive—89,000 works strong and held by the McMichael for more than three decades—has allowed unprecedented curatorial access to the origins of this now world-renowned graphic tradition.
This once-in-a-generation exhibition of more than 200 works will foreground the cultural continuities of life in Kinngait in the face of dramatic societal change over more than five decades. . . . It will reveal overlooked bodies of work by some of the country’s most beloved artists including Kenojuak Ashevak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Kananginak Pootoogook, and Pudlo Pudlat as well as introduce audiences to hitherto unknown artists whose work was suppressed by the aims of the print program that prioritized the tastes of settler markets in the South.”
Check the McMichael’s website for more information.
At the WAG/Qaumajuq in Winipeg: Ningiukulu Teevee – Stories from Kinngait (Fall 2025)
An exhibit focused on Ning’s work will be on display when IAS visits Winipeg next fall!
“Ningiukulu (Ning) Teevee was born in 1963 in the hamlet of Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), on south Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut. She is part of a new generation of Inuit artists raised in permanent communities, rather than the seasonal hunting camps of their parents. Since 2004, 150 of Teevee’s drawings have been translated into prints for the Kinngait annual print collections.
Teevee’s most favoured subjects are arctic animals, abstract natural forms, and the stories associated with Inuit cultural traditions. She has an abiding interest in traditional tales that have been passed down through generations. Her images include creation stories, tales of mistreatment and its consequences, tales of the legendary traveller, Kiviuq, animal fables, and stories that relate the activities of shamans and the various spirits that inhabit the Shamanic belief system.”
Check the WAG website for more information about this exhibit.