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Presentation at the Inuit Art Society 2024 Annual Meeting, August 16 & 17 in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. inuitartsociety.org/ Richard Mohr on “The Collages of Janet Kigusiuq: A Case Study in Inuit Aesthetics” Mohr’s talk celebrates and analyzes the late-life collages of the Baker Lake artist Janet Kigusiuq (1926-2005), and does so as a vehicle to profile some historically fundamenta...

The late, Arctic-born, Toronto-based Inuit artist Floyd Kuptana ― best known as a carver ― in his 2-D works, made several hunting and gathering forays deep into distinctively American pop culture. Richard D. Mohr is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois. Over the last few years, he has been writing and lecturing on Inuit art and ethnography. He is an...

Article published online after his death, in smART Magazine online (date unknown) Written by Madeleine Kane, with a contribution by Inessa Tercan. 3 images: - portrait of Floyd Kuptana by Bailey MacIver - photo of Floyd in front of the painting he did of Inessa Tercan - photo of Floyd working on - what later turned out to be his last painting - with a bottle. Floyd Kuptana-Urban Hunter: Celebra...

This February 14th Floyd would have become 60 years old! A good time to look at the latest timeline overview of his works in Museums & Galleries worldwide. Since the launch of the site "Floyd Kuptana : From Another World" floydkuptana.ca , this section has been expanded with all the finds so far, and we would like to discuss them with you. * Ed Drass will talk about the exhibitions and events a...

Good Friday, 2020 “Good Friday with Floyd Kuptana” by Richard Mohr (on April, 10th 2020, Good Friday) Wishing you a good Good Friday with a little help from the Inuit artist Floyd Kuptana, who was born in 1964 one-hundred-and-fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle at the Cape Parry DEW Line station and who at age five was forced to attend one of the most brutal of Canada’s residential schools f...

Talk by Richard D. Mohr about Floyd Kuptana. A five minute show-’n’-tell plus in-memorium for Floyd presented to the Inuit Art Society as a Zoom (June 13th 2021), two weeks after Floyd died. (May 27th 2021) With permission by the author the video, transcrip & images of the artworks, will be added to the Floyd Kuptana project website, floydkuptana.ca

Carved with a brush: the paintings of Floyd Kuptana This book can be previewed on the Blurb site www.blurb.ca/books/11158938-carved-with-a-brush PDF-download

Dear Guus, Somehow it’s August already and the summer is nearly coming to an end! For me it’s been a frantic season full of travel and conferences. It might sound weird, but I think I thrive with a little bit of chaos in my life. Perhaps that’s why I’m so drawn to Floyd Kuptana’s work and why I’ve loved it since the first time I saw his brightly painted creatures with crimson talons and gnashin...

While the project "Floyd Kuptana" is still in development (contact @inuitartportal to know more) the section "For Sale, On Auction, Sold" is almost ready for publication. Here is a screencast of the status August 16th 2023. 48 works of art for sale or on auction, 28 sculptures & 20 paintings.

Short video on the most recent sculptures by Floyd Kuptana for sale, on auction, plus the 2 recently sold ones. “Floyd Kuptana” is a project (in development) by @InuitArtPortal

Once A Myth, Become Real / Gwangju Biennale Canadian Pavilion

Secrets of a West-Greenland Kayak - at Museum In 't Houten Huis.

Iñupiat mask #facesofalaska

Yup'ik MAsk #facesofalaska

Alutiiq Mask. #facesofalaska