Ningiukulu Teevee
Settlement: Cape Dorset / Kinngait
(1963)
First Name: Ningiukulu (Ningeokuluk)
Last Name: Teevee
Full Name: Ningiukulu (Ningeokuluk) Teevee
Name in syllabics: N/A
Alternative Names:
Date of birth: May 27, 1963
Place of birth: Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut
Date of death: N/A
Place of death: N/A
Community / Heritage: Inuit
Sex: Female
Disc Number: N/A
Website: N/A
Art Media: Drawing, printmaking, serigraphs, lithography, aquatint, stonecut, ink, coloured pencils, black fibre-tip pen, oil sticks, watercolour, crayons.
Bio:
Ningiukulu (Ningeokuluk) Teevee is a Canadian Inuit artist and writer born on May 27, 1963 in Kinngait, Nunavut. Teevee is the daughter of Joanasie and Kanajuk Salomonie. Her father, Joanasie, was a beloved community leader in Cape Dorset. Her father-in-law is Jamasie Teevee, a graphic artist.
Teevee is self-taught and began her career in the 1990s. She uses ink and coloured pencils as her primary mediums but has experimented with many other mediums over time. Teevee’s work explores contemporary themes as well as Inuit legends and traditions.
Since 2004, over 80 of Teevee’s drawings have been translated into prints for the Cape Dorset annual print collection, making her one of the leading graphic art talents working in Canada today.
In 2006, Feheley Fine Arts hosted Teevee’s inaugural solo exhibition “Ningiukulu Teevee: Drawings.” Her work had been featured in numerous shows and exhibitions in major public galleries and museums, and is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg.
Teevee is also an accomplished children's author. Her first children's book, “Alego,” is an introduction to Inuit tradition and lifestyle and was a nominee for the 2009 Governor General’s Award for children’s literature illustration.
Teevee works full-time for the Department of Housing in Cape Dorset and devotes her spare time to her family and drawing. Her husband, Simeonie Teevee, is a musician who plays with his band at community events in Cape Dorset and at music festivals around Nunavut.
Articles:
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningiukulu_Teevee
· https://alexanderadamsart.wordpress.com/2019/03/27/ningiukulu-teevee-inuit-artist/
Exhibitions:
· 2004: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2005: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2006: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2006: "Landscape: Contemporary Inuit Drawings", Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2006: “Ningeokuluk Teevee: Drawings”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2007: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2008: “Arctic Wind – An Expression of Naturalism”, Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2008: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2009: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2009: “Summer Celebration”, Images of the North, San Francisco, California, USA
· 2009-2010: “Arctic Spirit: 50th Anniversary of Cape Dorset’s Kinngait Studios”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2009-2010: “Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth”, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
· 2009-2010: ”Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
· 2010: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2010: “Facing Forward – New Works from Kinngait Studios”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2010: “Inuit Sculptures and Drawings”, The Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
· 2010: “Ningeokuluk Teevee Drawings”, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
· 2010: “Ningeokuluk Teevee Drawings”, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2010: “Ningeokuluk Teeve”e, Nunavut Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
· 2010: “Nipirasait: Many Voices, Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset”, The Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
· 2010: “Patterns from Nature – Drawings by Ningeokuluk Teevee”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2010-2011: “Ningeokuluk Teevee – Recent Drawings”, Elca London Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
· 2011: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2011: “Contemporary North: Drawings from Cape Dorset”, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
· 2011: “Contemporary Reflections”, The Canadian Guild of Craft, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
· 2011: “Dorset Large: Large Scale drawings from the Kinngait Studios”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2011: “Fall Migration: A Selection of Birds in Sculpture, Prints and Drawings”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2011-2012: “New Art from Cape Dorset”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
· 2011-2012: “Women in Charge”, Inuit Contemporary Women Artists, Museo Nazionale Preistorica Etnografica, “Luigi Pigorini”, Rome, Italy
· 2012: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2012: “Colour”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2012: “Ice and Sand”, Coombe Farm Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon, UK
· 2012: “New Art from Cape Dorset”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
· 2012: “Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists”, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
· 2012: “Sky Ecchymosis: Part of the Series - Women of the Arctic”, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
· 2012: “Summer Show”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2012: “The Unexpected, Feheley Fine Arts”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2012-2013: “Telling Stories: Inuit Art from Cape Dorset”, Toronto Pearson International Airport (Terminal 1), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: “Animal Power: Images in Contemporary Inuit Art”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2013: Cape Dorset Graphics, Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: “Cape Dorset Prints”, Gallery 210, St. Louis, Missouri , USA
· 2013: “Dorset Seen”, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: “Of Stories Past: An exhibition of Original Drawings by Ningeokuluk Teevee”, The Guild Shop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: “Sanaunguabik: Traditions and Transformations in Inuit Art”, Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
· 2013: “The Hand of the Artist”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: Toronto International Art Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2013: “Venture North: Drawings from Cape Dorset”, Willocks and Sax Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
· 2013: “Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? Identity in Contemporary Cape Dorset Art”, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
· 2014: Cape Dorset and Points South, Theo Gantz Studio, Beacon, NY, USA
· 2014: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2014: Cape Dorset: New Generation, Willocks and Sax Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
· 2014: “New Voices from the New North”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
· 2014: “Recent Drawings by Ningeokukluk Teevee”, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2014: “Skin Deep, Carleton University Art Gallery”, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
· 2014: “Views from the North: Original Drawings from Cape Dorset”, Alaska on Madison, New York, NY, USA
· 2015: “15 Years: Kinngait 2000 – 2015”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2015: “Beyond the Surface”, Drawings by Ningeokuluk Teevee, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2015: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2015: “Contemporary North II”, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
· 2015: “Over the Top”, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2015: “Stonecut to Sugar-lift”, Inuit Prints From the 1960’s to the Present, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
· 2017: “CANADA 150”, Canada House Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
· 2017:Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2018: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
· 2019: Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards: N/A
Collections:
· National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario Canada
· Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Ontario Canada
· Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada