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Ruben
Komangapik
Photo: Ruben Anton Komangapik
Credit: Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association
Ruben
Komangapik
Medium:
installation, jewellry, new media, performance, sculpture/carving
Artistic Community:
Caplan, 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.
Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), NU
1976
Work
Ruben Komangapik
(Caplan)
Light is Life (2002)
Credit: Courtesy Canada Council Art Bank
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Biography
Ruben Anton Komangapik is a jeweller, sculptor, carver, metalworker, performing artist and musician. He was born in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), NU and also grew up in Clyde River and Arctic Bay, NU. Komangapik absorbed traditional Inuit culture, language and art from his grandparents and parents. Komangapik's sculptures and carvings are held in permanent collections across Europe and Canada, including that of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON.
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Title
Year
Author
Here and Now: Indigenous Canadian Perspectives and New Media in Works by Ruben Komangapik, Kent Monkman and Adrian Duke
August 2018
Brittany Myburgh
Worlds Inside Worlds
November 1, 2017
Rupert Nuttle
2017 Canadian Biennal
2017
National Gallery of Canada
Exhibitions
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Name
Year
Gallery
Contemporary Reflections
Nov - Dec 2011
La Guilde | The Guild
Spirit Wrestler: Shaman, Sedna and Spirits
Oct - Nov 2008
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Achievements
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Achievement
Year
Organization
Cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly
Summer 2011
Inuit Art Foundation
Public Collections
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Collection
Location
Canada Council Art Bank
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Indigenous Art Collection at Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Gatineau, QC, Canada
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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March 7, 2019
Profile edited by Kathleen Fulton
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