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. (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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At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto: Bill Nasogaluak carvings (now thru ??) and Kenojuak Ashevak prints (thru June 18)
“Born in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in 1953, Bill Nasogaluak grew up during a time when traditional Inuit life was colliding with Southern culture. This collision informs the materials and tools he uses, as well as the content of his work. With an unwavering clearsightedness, he expresses the pain and consequences of colonialism in the North, addressing suicide, alcoholism in extraction industry workers, and the devastation of climate change for Inuit and the animals that surround them.
Nasogaluak’s carvings also materialize spiritual and cultural aspects from Inuvialuit ways of being; his hope is to inspire the next generations to keep Inuit culture central to who they are. He follows the stone and the stories wherever they want to take him. “
Check the AGO website for more information on the Bill Nasogaluak exhibit.
The Kenojuak exhibit is the first of two that will showcase prints from the Dr. Ronald M. Haynes Collection.
Haynes began collecting Inuit sculpture and works on paper in the 1970s and this first exhibit features 14 prints by Kenojuak, including The Woman Who Lives in the Sun. The exhibit is curated by Renée van der Avoird, AGO, Associate Curator of Canadian Art.
Check the AGO website for more information on this Kenojuak exhibit.
At the WAG/Qaumajuq in Winnipeg: Omalluq Oshutsiaq – Pictures from my Life (Now thru July 2025)
The exhibit features 19 drawings by Kinngait artist Omalluq Oshutsiaq, who began drawing in the last two years of her life, many years after an accident ended her carving career. Drawings in the exhibit offer deeply personal images of love and loss, detailed narratives of community life, interpretations of the south Baffin story of the female shaman, Aliguq.
(Note: This exhibit was taken down temporarily while the exhibit in the main area was being taken down. Contact the museum before you go to make sure this exhibit is back up.)
Check the WAG/Qaumajuq website for more infomation.
At the Eiteljorg in Indianapolis: “Voices from the Arctic – Contemporary Inuit Art” (Feb 21 – March 2026)
Voices from the Arctic: Contemporary Inuit Art at the Eiteljorg will include sculptures, prints, and drawings from the 1960s to today.
“Through this collection, visitors will experience the evolution of Inuit art, from traditional depictions of hunting, dogsledding, and spiritual narratives to contemporary reflections on technology, changing lifestyles, and the pressing impacts of climate change. These works not only celebrate the ingenuity and resilience of Inuit artists but also shed light on their intimate connection to the land and their role as witnesses to the dramatic environmental changes affecting not only the Arctic, but the world.”
Prints in the exhibit will be changed midway through the exhibit’s run, so that’s an extra incentive to visit more than once!
IAS members Lou Jungheim and Thalia Nicas have helped make this exhibit happen and will have pieces from their wonderful collection included in the exhibit. In addition, Richard Mohr will be giving a lecture later in the year, and there may well be involvement by other members during the course of this exhibit.
Basic information on this exhibit is currently available on the Eiteljorg website. Watch for more information and a feature on this exhibit.
At the McMichael 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.
Ottawa Art Gallery: Normee Ekoomiak (April – August)
An exhibit of textiles, paintings, and children’s book illustrations by Normee Ekoomiak.
Ottawa Art Gallery: Revival: Printmaking in Nunavik – 2014-2019 April-August)
From IAQ: This is a travelling exhibition that showcases the resurgence of linocut printmaking in Nunavik in recent years, following a series of workshops held in the region. The show features the work of 27 artists from across Nunavik, including Passa Mangiuk, Mary Paningajak and Leah Qumaaluk, whose works depict everything from the telling of legends, customs of the past, artistic renditions of Inuit objects, and everyday observations.
At the WAG/Qaumajuq in Winnipeg: A 50-Year Retrospective of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s Visionary Art (Opening Spring 2025)
A massive exhibit of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s work will fill the main gallery in Qaumajuq betginning this spring and continuing at least into fall.
“Abraham Anghik Ruben was born in 1951 and spent his early years on the lands north of Paulatuk and east of the Mackenzie Delta, in the Canadian Western Arctic. His family engaged in the seasonal cycle of hunting, fishing and trapping, and his recollections of early childhood are filled with memories of the land and his extended family. Life on the land ceased at the age of eight when he was sent to residential school in Inuvik. He made the decision to become a full-time artist in 1975. In 1986, he made the decision to move to Salt Spring Island, where he carves in an outside studio year round.”
The WAG featured Ruben’s sculpture in a solo exhibition in 2001. This new exhibition will be a retrospective of Ruben’s art works from 1975–2025. It will include about ninety sculptures of various sizes and about ten large-scale paintings inspired by the colors in medieval manuscripts. The exhibition will highlight important personal milestones in his life, explore his deep interest in Inuit/Viking history.
The exhibit is currated by Heather Campbell.
Check the WAG/Qaumajuq website for more information.
At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: “ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ UUMMAQUTIK ESSENCE OF LIFE” (Ongoing)
Discover MMFA’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.
Upcoming exhibitions
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto: 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.
At the WAG/Qaumajuq in Winnipeg: Ningiukulu Teevee – Stories from Kinngait (Fall 2025)
An exhibit focused on Ning’s work will be on display when IAS visits Winnipeg 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.
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto: “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.
