The definitive source for Inuit Art. Current ExhibitionKinngait Spring New Works from Cape Dorset April 11 – 25, 2024 View ExhibitionGallery ArtistsSee a selection of represented Inuit artists Kenojuak Ashevak, Shuvinai Ashoona, Tim Pitsiulak, and others. View ListCurrent Exhibition Saimaiyu Akesuk Radiant April 13 – May 6, 2023 View Exhibition Gallery Artists See a selection of represented Inuit artists Kenojuak … Read More
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The Gallery Feheley Fine Arts is synonymous with excellence in the field of Inuit art. With over 60 years of experience, the gallery is now situated in the historic St. Lawrence Market area of downtown Toronto. It is one of the last remaining commercial galleries in the world devoted exclusively to traditional and contemporary art from the Canadian Arctic. Its … Read More
The Samayualie Sisters at Feheley Fine Arts
We were delighted to host a bustling preview on Saturday January 9th of drawings by Nicotye and Padloo Samayualie. The sisters were present at the gallery during their brief stop over en route to Banff. Nicotye (accompanied by her sister Padloo and 18 month nephew Norman) has been invited to participate in a residency in Banff as part of the … Read More
Art Toronto 2014
This year marks the fifteenth consecutive year of Feheley Fine Arts’ participation in Art Toronto, since its inauguration in 2000. Last year, David Balzer wrote the following for the Canadian Art website. “The best contemporary drawing in Canada is coming out of Cape Dorset, and at Feheley Fine Arts’ booth you will find a fine cross-section of established and emerging … Read More
Kenojuak Ashevak memorial
The internationally renowned Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak passed away on January 8th, 2013. Pat Feheley, a good friend of the artist, hosted a memorial service to commemorate the anniversary of her passing. Kenojuak Ashevak’s signature style and bold, colourful artwork was well-awarded; she was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1967, elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of … Read More
Champagne brunch for Art Toronto
On Sunday October 27, during Art Toronto, Feheley Fine Arts hosted a champagne brunch as part of the Art Toronto VIP programme. This event was held to celebrate the Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group’s Visiting Artists programme, inaugurated in 2012/2013. This innovative initiative allows artists from Cape Dorset, Nunavut to travel to southern Canada for residencies, while southern artists travel to … Read More
Art Toronto: “Feheley Fine Arts’ salon hang of contemporary Inuit work took the cake.”
It was a successful and busy weekend for Feheley Fine Arts at Art Toronto 2013. We were very fortunate for our booth to be a stopping point for multiple Art Toronto tours. Additionally, we were happy to have artist Tim Pitsiulak present to be able to discuss his large-scale drawings that bordered each end of the Feheley Fine Arts booth. … Read More
The AGO acquires artwork from Feheley Fine Arts at ART TORONTO
The annual Toronto International Art Fair (Art Toronto) is well underway at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. After hours of installation and a successful opening night gala, Feheley Fine Arts is looking forward to a weekend in Booth 700. For the second year in a row, the Art Gallery of Ontario has purchased artwork from Feheley Fine Arts. Last year, … Read More
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection at Feheley: “The Hand of the Artist”
Feheley Fine arts is proud to announce the release of the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection. A tradition since 1959, the collection includes lithographs, etchings and stonecuts from eleven different artists. This annual event receives a large amount of attention from art collectors because no more than fifty editions of each print are created; every year, the release is met with … Read More
Itee Pootoogook: Itee’s Kinngait
Exhibition opened September 21, 2013 In 1972 the National Film Board of Canada established an animation workshop in the unlikeliest of places: Cape Dorset. Just over eight minutes into the workshop’s lauded first release, Animation from Cape Dorset (1973), a hand-written title card announces a segment entitled, “New photos by Itee Pootoogook and directed by same person.”[1] Pootoogook was then … Read More
Sarah Milroy talks about Itee Pootoogook’s “Itee’s Kinngait”
Feheley Fine Arts held the exhibition Itee’s Kinngait from September 21 – October 10, 2013. The show featured new drawings by Kinngait artist Itee Pootoogook (1951–2014), based on photographs taken by his colleagues Bill Ritchie and Tim Pitsiulak. Pootoogook’s coloured pencil and ink drawings were completed in a photorealist style, emulating the medium of his original source material. As part … Read More
Mathew Nuqingaq drum dancing
In 2013, artist Mathew Nuqingaq travelled to Toronto from his hometown of Iqaluit, Nunavut to join us in celebrating the one year anniversary of Feheley Fine Arts in our new location at 65 George Street, Toronto. Nuqingaq is an artist, renowned as a jeweller, sculptor, photographer, and drum dancer. He founded the Aayuraa Studio in Iqaluit, which provides a space … Read More