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Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (b at Ikerrasak camp, S Baffin I, NWT 3 Oct 1927). She is perhaps the best-known Inuk artist because of her famous print The Enchanted Owl. The first woman to become involved with the newly established PRINTMAKING shop at Cape Dorset, Kenojuak began drawing in the late 1950s; her works have inspired about 200 prints produced since then. Her drawings, primarily of birds, are characterized by a strong sense of composition, colour, design and draughtsmanship. Although best known as a graphic artist she also carves, making sculptures and (with her late husband Johnniebo) a mural for the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan.
The recipient of numerous awards, including the Order of Canada (Companion in 1982) and participant in many exhibitions, Kenojuak has travelled to southern Canada and Europe. She was featured in a NFB film in 1962 and in a limited-edition book published in 1981. Kenojuak became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1974 and was given a 30-year retrospective of her work at the MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Gallery (Kleinburg, Ont) in 1986. In 2002 her work was featured in the exhibition Kenojuak Ashevak: To Make Something Beautiful at the National Gallery of Canada. She was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008. See also INUIT ART; INUIT PRINTMAKING.
 Festival OwlKenojuak is one of Canada's best-known printmakers (courtesy West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative).
 Wolves in SpringWolves in Spring by Kenojuak Ashevak (courtesy DINA/CD 15PR90 4).
Author
JEAN BLODGETT
Suggested Reading
Jean Blodgett, Kenojuak (1985).
Links to Other Sites
Kenojuak Ashevak
This website honours Kenojuak Ashevak and other exemplary Canadian women artists. Part of the "Celebrating Women's Achievements" series from Library and Archives Canada.
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