Contemporary Inuit art usually is dated to 1948, when Toronto artist James Houston visited the eastern Arctic and returned to Montreal with a few samples of small carvings in stone and ivory.

While there are small galleries, work spaces, cultural centers and art co-ops scattered through the territories of the Inuit showing their work, Winnipeg’s center is the first large institution ...

While traditional work and themes are still popular around the world, Inuit artists are increasingly interested in creating art that reflects today's reality in the Arctic.

By 2006, she had a solo exhibition at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and won a prestigious Canadian Sobey Art Award. The inclusion of her work in the international quinquennial ...

“Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” features work by Pitseolak Ashoona, Napachie Pootoogook and Annie Pootoogook, three generations of artists from one Inuit family in the Canadian north.

A new video series includes a complete short documentary and five in-depth interviews with prominent Inuit artists in a new art movement in the North, depicting climate and social change.

Inuit artists like Teevee, Jutai Toonoo and Kavavaow Mannomee, among others, are increasingly taking on these political, environmental and identity questions in their work.

The 1950s and ‘60s were a time of major change for the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. “People were more and more moving from their nomadic camp lifestyles into communities,” explains Maija ...

And yet, Ashoona, a third-generation artist, is also one of a dwindling rank whose prints and carvings first fixed the image of Inuit art in the South as traditional work stuffed with pleasing ...

Those in the Inuit art scene have questions about how system will work in the north. For Augatnaaq Eccles sewing parkas is a way of feeling closer to her home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut while living ...

Following its great popularity, Inuit art has since become a national symbol for Canada, as evidenced by the work of famed Kinngait artist Kenojuak Ashevak recently being added to the $10 bill.