Novoalia Alariaq Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1956 -

NOVOALIA ALARIAQ (NUVULIA; NOOWULEELA; NOWELEEIA; NUULIA)
Born: January 17, 1956 Male E7-1419
Resides: Cape Dorset; also lived in Lake Harbour
Sculpture
Novoalia's parents Adamie and Nakasuk were also carvers in Cape Dorset.

EXHIBITIONS:
Sep - Oct 1980 Cape Dorset
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
October 1981 Cape Dorset Sculpture
Atlantic Galleries
Fredricton, New Brunswick
October - Nov 1981 The Inuit Sea Goddess
Surrey Art Gallery,
(organized to complement the Musee
des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit
of the same name)
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1984 Sculpture from Cape Dorset - The New Generation
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
March 1988 Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture
Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
June - July 1990 Small Sculptures from across the
Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
August 1990 Traditions and Innovations in Inuit Art
Sculpture in Stone
Images of the North
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
December 1990 New Miniature Sculpture
Gallery Phillip
Don Mills, Ontario
Dec 1990 - Feb 1991 Drummers
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
November - Dec 1992 Inuit Sculpture--New Acquisitions
Pucker Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1993 - March 1994 The Inuit Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
November - Dec 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1995 Inuit Mythology
Arctic Experience
Hamilton, Ontario
November - Dec 1995 Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
(brochure)

COLLECTIONS:
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

SELECTED REFERENCES:
Noel, Michel
NUNAVIMIUT: ART INUIT = INUIT ART. Pointe-Claire, Quebec:
Roussan en collaboration avec l'Institut cultural AVATAQ, 1992
(Collection LE TAMBOUR).
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Surrey Art Gallery
THE INUIT SEA GODDESS. Surrey: The Surrey Art Gallery, 1981.
Verona. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
IMMAGINARIO INUIT: ARTE E CULTURA DEGLI ESQUIMESICANADESI.
Commune di Verona: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Palazzo Forti, 1995.