Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth.
Shuvinai Ashoona, Imaginary Creatures, 2016
Shuvinai Ashoona
(Kinngait, Nunavut)
Shuvinai Ashoona was born in 1961. She began to draw in 1993 and joined Kinngait’s Annual Print Collection in 1997. Since then, her work has been selected for the Santa Fe SITElines Biennial, the 18th Biennale of Sydney and the Canadian Biennial in Ottawa. Ashoona was included in the prestigious publication Phaidon Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013). Her works are part of the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada. She is represented by the Feheley Fine Arts Gallery in Toronto.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
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