Congratulations to Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory on winning the 2021 Sobey Art Award! The $100,000 prize is among the most prestigious in Canadian art, awarded annually to an exceptional emerging artist. Williamson Bathory is a kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves … Read More
Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior
In an exciting collaborative first, Feheley Fine Arts and TrépanierBaer Gallery are thrilled to present the exhibition Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior opening November 13, 2021 at Centre Space (located inside Feheley Fine Arts) in Toronto. The exhibition features an extraordinary selection of Cahén’s paintings and works on paper, some of which have not been exhibited in a commercial gallery … Read More
Panel Talk: Oscar Cahén
In conjunction with the exhibition Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior, Feheley Fine Arts and TrépanierBaer were pleased to present a panel talk on the life and work of Canadian abstract painter and illustrator, Oscar Cahén. Panelists included Sara Angel, Founder and Executive Director, Art Canada Institute; Jaleen Grove, Author, Oscar Cahén: Life & Work; Robert Enright, Contributing Editor, Border Crossings … Read More
Post-Fair: Art Toronto 2021
It was so good to be back at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the 2021 iteration of Art Toronto. Half the size but double the fun, this year’s Feheley Fine Arts booth featured new drawings by Kinngait artists Shuvinai Ashoona, Saimaiyu Akesuk, Ooloosie Saila, Ningiukulu Teevee, and Qavavau Manumie. Paintings on canvas were also featured. Two were by Tuktoyaktuk-born … Read More
Oscar Cahén: The Illustrator
Prior to his founding of the Painters Eleven in 1953, Oscar Cahén made a name for himself by designing and illustrating covers for magazines and newspapers in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Immersed in the world of news publications and journalism through his father Fritz Max Cahén, an art history professor and later, a correspondent for the German newspaper … Read More
Shuvinai Ashoona: Kinngait Visions
(Digitized catalogue below) After a nationwide touring solo exhibition, a feature in the Berlin Biennial, winning the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, and a subsequent retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of stellar new drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona. Aptly titled Kinngait Visions, the exhibition brings together twenty-two recent works by the artist … Read More
Mark Igloliorte in conversation with Heather Igloliorte.
The new works on view in Mark Igloliorte’s solo exhibition Anittâ! – Above All Negations utilize the nuances of colours and text as a driver for exploring Indigenous knowledge. These particular explorations are rooted in language, as well as personal and cultural imagery including Igloliorte’s signature skateboards. A skater himself, the artist likens the act of practicing on his board … Read More
Niap at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
A piece by Niap is included the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ latest group exhibition. Titled “How long does it take for one voice to reach another?”, the show brings together works from the museum’s permanent collection that touch on love and loss; separation and reconciliation; listening and the desire to be heard. Niap’s watercolour piece Beauty in Our Lines … Read More
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
This year marks the first time Canada will observe September 30th as a new statutory holiday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the thousands of lives taken and affected by the residential school system. The time for reconciliation is long overdue; we are reminded to never forget how children were forcibly separated from their families and … Read More
Traumoeba: Oscar Cahén
Born in 1916 to a Jewish-German family, Oscar Cahén’s life was soon to be riddled with traumatic experiences. In 1933, at the onset of the Second World War, the Cahéns were robbed of their German citizenship and forced to flee. Cahén’s father, Fritz Max Cahén, was targeted as one of the leaders of an anti-Nazi resistance group, causing further anxiety … Read More
The Stonecut Print
If you are familiar with Inuit art, you would be familiar with the stonecut print. This particular type of printmaking is unique to the Canadian north, utilizing stone to create the printing plate. The method itself is akin to that of linocut or woodcut, where a negative relief image is cut into the plate, inked, and printed. In fact, linoleum … Read More
In Memoriam: Pitaloosie Saila (1942–2021)
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of seminal Inuit artist Pitaloosie Saila. Born in 1942, Saila began drawing in the late 1950s and went on to become one of Kinngait’s most notable graphic artists, working well into her 70s. Saila’s life was a remarkable one; she broke her back as a child and spent seven years in … Read More