Artist | Peter Sevoga (*1940)

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    • Peter Sevoga

      Thinking Of Whales1997
    • Peter Sevoga

      Successful Hunt1997

Biography

Biography

Born: July 28, 1940 Male
Resides: Baker Lake
Sculpture, Printmaking

In 1965, Sevoga participated in an experimental print workshop in Baker Lake as both artist and printmaker.

Courtesy

Courtesy

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

1968 August - September: Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and Paintings of Norval Morrisseau, Art Association of Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1969 May - June: Eskimo Sculpture '69, Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1970 June - July: Sculpture, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, a competition/exhibition organized as a contribution to the Centennial of the N.W.T., Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (illustrated catalogue)

1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1973: Three Artists from Baker Lake, Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1974: Stone Sculpture of Baker Lake Eskimos, Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1974 March: Baker Lake Sculpture, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1976 March - July: The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1977 June: Sheokju of Cape Dorset & Eleven, Sculptors of Baker Lake, Victor Waddington Gallery, London, England (illustrated catalogue)

1977 September - October: The Eskimo Woman: her life and dreams in prints and sculpture, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1978 August - November: The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1979 July - 1980 May: Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1980 January - February: Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1980 February - March: Collectors' Choice - An Exhibition of Important Inuit Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, Toronto, Ontario

1980 April - May: Baker Lake - Drawings, Sculpture, Tapestries, Theo Waddington, Toronto, Ontario

1980 August - October: The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1981 February: Baker Lake Sculpture: Power and Restraint, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1982: Peter and Thomas Sevoga, Graphics from Baker Lake and Holman Island 1982, Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany (illustrated catalogue)

1983 September: People of the Caribou, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1984 October: Images of the Far North, Studio Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.

1984 November - December: Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, held at Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute, University of Siegen, at Villa Waldrich, Siegen, Germany (illustrated catalogue)


1984 November - 1985 February: Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper: Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

1985 - 1986 Sanaugasi Takujaksat: A Travelling Celebration of Inuit Sculpture, Presented by Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd., with the assistance of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa (tour) (illustrated brochure)

1985 October: Our Hoods are Full, Arctic Artistry, Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1986 May - June: The Spirit of the Land, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1986 July - August: Keewatin Sculpture: Reflections of the Spirit, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 July - 1988 February: Selections from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1988 August - September: Mother & Child, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1988 - 89 December: Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1989 June: Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York, U.S.A. (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1989 June - July: Baker Lake Sculpture, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1990: Baker Lake, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1990 November - December: Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France

1991 April - May: Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Palais de l'Europe, Le Touquet, France

1991 May - June: Mother and Child: Sculpture and Prints, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (illustrated brochure)

1992 May - August: Arctic Wildlife: The Art of the Inuit, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

1994 July: Arctic Spirit - 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1983 September - October: Peter Sevoga, Raven Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

Collections

Collections

Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Honours, Achievements and Events

Honours, Achievements and Events

1992 Peter attended a Baker Lake carving workshop led by David Ruben Piqtoukun.

Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.

Art Association of Newport: AN EXHIBITION OF ESKIMO SCULPTURE, ESKIMO PRINTS AND PAINTINGS OF NORVAL MORRISSEAU: From the Collection Cartier, Montreal, Canada. Newport, R.I.: Art Association of Newport, 1968.

Blodgett, Jean: SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1986.

Driscoll, Bernadette: THE INUIT AMAUTIK: I Like My Hood to be Full. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1981.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: BAKER LAKE. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery of Vancouver [1990].

Macduff, Alistair: LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.

Raven Gallery: PETER SEVOGA. Minneapolis: Raven Gallery, 1983.

Sanavik Cooperative: SCULPTURE 1974. Baker Lake: Sanavik Cooperative, 1974.

Swinton, Nelda: LA FAUNE DE L'ARCTIQUE = ARCTIC WILDLIFE: L'art des Inuit = the Art of the Inuit. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1993.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: THE ZAZELENCHUK COLLECTION OF ESKIMO ART. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978.

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