Seepee Ipeelie was born on February 3, 1940 in Pangnirtung. He is the son of notable artist Nuveeya Ipeelie. 

Seepee began his career as a carver after a hospitalization in the South. After this hospitalization, he attended school in Edmonton before returning North to Iqaluit where he permanently settled. Ipeelie’s career began to surge in the mid 1970s when his work was widely circulated in Canada. By the 1980s, he was extensively exhibiting across Canada and internationally. 

His work has been collected by many major institutions, including the Canadian Museum of History, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Dennos Museum Center in Michigan, the Red Deer and District Museum in Alberta, the Inuit ACultural Institute in Rankin Inlet, and the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. 

Ipeelie passed away in 2000 and is remembered for his role in shaping the reputation and recognition of Inuit art.

Exhibitions

• Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture, Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
• Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists, at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited presented by Orca Aart, Chicago
• Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
• Art Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Art Inuit, Galerie Saint Merri
• Baffin Images, Orca Aart
• Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition, Baffin Regional School
• Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Contemporary Canadian Eskimo Art, Gimpel Fils
• Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen & Bears, Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd.
• Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen and Bears, Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd.
• Fine Carvers of Frobisher Bay, Inuk 1
• Four Sculptors from Baffin Island, The Upstairs Gallery
• Images of the Far North, Arctic Artistry (held at the Erie County Fairgrounds)
• In Celebration, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Inuit Art, Waddington Galleries
• Inuit Art, Whitby Arts Incorporated, The Station Gallery
• Iqaluit, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Not Just a Dancing Step..., Galerie D'Art Vincent
• Omingmak - The Muskox, National Museum of Natural Sciences
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Recent Acquisitions: Watercolors of the Arctic Landscape and Original Eskimo Sculpture, Arctic Artistry
• Sculpture from Frobisher Bay, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Sculpture Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Seepee Ipeelee/Nooveya Ipeelee, Mazelow Gallery
• Seepee Ipellie-Recent Sculpture, Gallery of the Arts
• Seepee Ipellie/Nooveya Ipellie, Waddington Galleries
• Selected Canadian Sculpture, Webster Galleries
• The Art of Frobisher Bay, Arctic Artistry
• The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980, Westdale Gallery
• The Year of the Walrus, The Arctic Circle
• This Is My World, Presented by Jordan Fine Arts at the Windmill Gallery
• Three Inuit Artists: Grandfather, Father and Son, Arctic Artistry
• Traditions and Innovations in Inuit Art Sculpture in Stone, Images of the North
• Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man, presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club
• [Inuit Art Exhibition], Whitby Arts Incorporated, The Station Gallery
• [Inuit Art Exhibition], Orca Aart, presented at Neiman Marcus

Collections

• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet
• Mark Osterlin Library, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• Red Deer and District Museum and Archives, Red Deer
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg