Pootoogook Jaw
POOTOOGOOK JAW
Date of Birth: February 9, 1959
Gender: Male
Disc Number: E7-1667
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Pootoogook’s parents, Melia and Joe are also artists in Cape Dorset.
Pootoogook Jaw
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions
November 1990
Inuit Masterworks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1992
Our Hoods Are Full
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
October – November 1992
Arctic Ice: Sculptures in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, NWT
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1995
Inuit Mythology
Arctic Expressions
Hamilton, Ontario
May – September 1995
Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1995
Inspiration Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December 1996
New Visions
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
May – June 2001
Baffin Island Sculpture
The Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
September – October 2002
Ohito Ashoona and Pootoogook Jaw
The Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
2004
Masterworks III
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
Spring 2005
Cape Dorset Sculpture
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April, 2010
Vancouver Olympic Exhibition
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
May – June, 2010
Polar Bears
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
October, 2010
Arctic Wind III: An Expression of Survival
Coastal Peoples Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
December, 2010
Small Sculptures by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
January – February, 2011
Small Treasures 2011
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
COLLECTIONS
Collections
Musee d’art Inuit Brousseau, Quebec City, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
SELECTED REFERENCES
Selected references
Dewar, Patricia
YOU HAD TO BE THERE. Nepean, Ontario: Inuit Art Quarterly, 9(1), Spring 1994, pp. 20-28.
Goo-Doyle, Ovilu
“TIME WILL MAKE YOU A CARVER”: An interview with Pootoogook Jaw of Cape Dorset. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol.8, No.2, Summer 1993.
Inuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
MONUMENTS IN STONE: Recent Sculptures from Cape Dorset. Toronto: The Inuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1988.
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Institute of American Native Arts Museum, 1995.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
INUIT MASTERWORKS: November 3 – November 24, 1990. Vancouver, B.C.: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1990.
Marion Scott Gallery
ARCTIC ICE: SCULPTURE IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET, NWT: Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992.