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Maudie Ohitook

MAUDIE RACHEL OKITTUQ (OHKITOOK; OKHETOOK; MOOAHTEE; OHIKTOOK;

OKITTAQ)

Born: January 1, 1944 Female E4-393

Place of Birth: Thom Bay

Resides: Taloyoak

Sculpture, Crafts

Maudie was born at Thom Bay, on the eastern Boothia Peninsula. She moved to

Spence Bay in 1965 and began carving in 1968. The themes of many of Maudie's

sculptures are supernatural spirits, deities and creatures. She enjoys

working in whalebone and stone. Maudie's husband, James Okittuq, is also a

carver in Spence Bay.

EXHIBITIONS:

1974 Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de

l'arctique canadien

Canadian Eskimo Arts Council

Ottawa, Ontario

(tour)

(illustrated catalogue)

March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine

Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/

Dr. Harry Winrob Collection

Surrey Art Gallery

Surrey, British Columbia

(illustrated catalogue)

July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s

Department of Indian Affairs

and Northern Development, and the

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Kingston, Ontario

(tour)

(illustrated catalogue)

Sept - Oct 1980 Spence Bay Sculpture: An Expressive Force

The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art

Toronto, Ontario

(illustrated catalogue)

December 1982 Spence Bay Sculpture

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver

Vancouver, British Columbia

February - March 1984 Canadian Inuit Art

City Hall

Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland

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)

Aug - Nov 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis

presented by Inuit Galerie

Mannheim, Germany

(tour)

(illustrated catalogue)

December 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis

Inuit Galerie, Mannheim

held at the Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum

Hannover, Germany

Dec 1988 - 1989 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)

Oct - Nov 1990 A Woman's Vision

Art Space Gallery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

April - May 1991 Nagdjuk: Gift of the Caribou

Art Space Gallery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Aug - Sept 1991 Art Inuit

Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai

at Galerie Akenaton

Troyes, France

Nov - Dec 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape