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Niap
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Niap
Medium:
drawing, painting, photography, sculpture/carving, throat singing
Artistic Community:
Kuujjuaq, QC
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.
1986
Work
Niap
(Kuujjuaq)
ᑲᑕᔾᔭᐅᓯᕙᓪᓛᑦ Katajjausivallaat le rythme bercé (2018)
Credit: Courtesy Oboro Photo Romain Guilbault
Artist Spotlight - Niap
Biography
Based in Montreal, QC, Niap (Nancy Saunders) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who divides her time between the city and her home community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik—a place that continues to deeply influence her work. Working across media, Niap thoughtfully investigates her cultural heritage and identity as an Inuk woman through her practice. Working across painting, performance, sculpture and photography, Niap has produced a wide ranging body of work from murals to immersive installations to portraiture. In 2018, Niap was the recipient of the IAF's Watt Scholarship and in 2019 she was featured on the cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly's "Earth" issue. Her work has been collected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Avataq Cultural Institute among others and has been exhibited across Canada.
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Publications
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Title
Year
Author
INUA Catalogue
2021
Nancy Saunders a d’abord refusé de jouer dans «Épidémie»
January 31, 2020
Camille Laurin-Desjardins
Drawing Breath
December 9, 2019
Ossie Michelin
Exhibitions
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Name
Year
Gallery
Niap: Reclamation and De-Categorization
November 2 – December 21, 2019
Marion Scott Gallery
Ivalu
May 16 - June 8, 2019
Feheley Fine Arts
ᑲᑕᔾᔭᐅᓯᕙᓪᓛᑦ Katajjausivallaat, le rythme bercé
March 2018
OBORO
Achievements
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Achievement
Year
Organization
Zapette d'Or Nomination
March 2020
URBANIA
Virginia J. Watt Scholarship
2017-2018
Inuit Art Foundation
Performances
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Title
Year
Role
Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting, October 27-29 2017
October 27-29, 2017
Presenter
Designation of katajjaniq, the Inuit throat singing, as an element of Québec’s intangible heritage
January 28, 2014
Singer
Public Collections
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Collection
Location
Avataq Cultural Institute
Montreal, QC
Canada Goose Arctic Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Montreal, QC, Canada
Edit History
December 10, 2018
Edited by: Inuit Art Foundation
March 30, 2018
Updated by: Rebecca Gray
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