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Maureen
Gruben
Maureen
Gruben
Medium:
installation, performance, seal skin, textile
Artistic Community:
Tuktuyaaqtuuq, NT
Date of Birth:
Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.
1963
Work
Maureen Gruben
(Tuktuyaaqtuuq)
Still from Stitching My Landscape (2017); Video (6:10mins)
Credit: Commissioned by Partners In Art for Landmarks/Reperes2017
Website
http://www.maureengruben.com/
Biography
Maureen Gruben is an installation, performance and textile artist from Tuktoyaktuk, NT. Gruben’s knowledge of the arctic environment is rich and the admiration she feels for what the land offers for both survival and creation, can be felt through her work. Working primarily with fur, hides, skins and manufactured materials, Gruben forges a link between land and community by activating themes around environmentalism, melting ice and Indigenous hunting rights. In recognition of her work, Gruben was awarded the tktktk in tk, the first Inuit artists to win the award, Gruben has been recognized through many awards and has exhibited across Canada at institutions such as the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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Title
Year
Author
INUA Catalogue
2021
Take a look at this Tuktoyaktuk artist's powerful work
December 27, 2019
Katie Toth
Connection Between Cultures
November 29, 2019
Frances Koncan
Exhibitions
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Name
Year
Gallery
Subsist
November 2019 - May 2020
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2019
March - July 2019
York Art Gallery
THE TIME OF THINGS: The Continuum of Indigenous Customary Practices into Contemporary Art
April 11 - July 7, 2018
University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries
Achievements
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Achievement
Year
Organization
Longlisted for the 2019 Aesthetica Art Prize
February 2019
Aesthetica Magazine
Cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly
Summer 2018
Awarded the Elizabeth Valentine Prangnell Scholarship Award
2011
University of Victoria
Public Collections
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Collection
Location
Indigenous Art Collection at Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Gatineau, QC, Canada
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