SEEPEE IPELLIE (SEEPEETEESEE; IPEELIE; IPEELEE; AIPEELEE; SIPITTISHEE) Born: February 3, 1940 Male E7-511 Place of Birth: Pangnirtung Resides: Iqaluit Sculpture Seepee is the son of the sculptor Nooveya Ipeelie. He began carving during a  stay in hospital in the south when he was only fifteen. He also attended  school in Edmonton, but returned home to Iqaluit where he married and raised a family.   EXHIBITIONS: 1975 Sculpture from Frobisher Bay Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  Montreal, Quebec April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition Baffin Regional School  Iqaluit, Northwest Territories April - May 1979 Seepee Ipellie/Nooveya Ipellie Waddington Galleries  Toronto, Ontario September 1979 Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen and Bears  Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd.  Calgary, Alberta Nov - Dec 1979 In Celebration Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  Montreal, Quebec Nov - Dec 1979 Fine Carvers of Frobisher Bay Inuk 1  San Francisco, California, U.S.A. March 1980 Inuit Art Waddington Galleries  Toronto, Ontario  May 1980 The Year of the Walrus The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. May 1980 Omingmak - The Muskox National Museum of Natural Sciences  Ottawa, Ontario Nov - Dec 1980 Four Sculptors from Baffin Island The Upstairs Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba Jan - Feb 1981 Seepee Ipeelee/Nooveya Ipeelee Mazelow Gallery  Toronto, Ontario September 1981 Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen & Bears  Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd.  Calgary, Alberta Feb 1984 - Jun 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit Department of Indian Affairs and  Northern Development and Canadian  Arctic Producers  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) Sep - Oct 1984 On the Land The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 1985 - 1986 Selected Canadian Sculpture Webster Galleries  Calgary, Alberta (illustrated brochure) June - August 1985 The Art of Frobisher Bay Arctic Artistry  Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A. April - May 1986 Inuit Art Whitby Arts Incorporated,  The Station Gallery  Whitby, Ontario May - June 1987 [Inuit Art Exhibition] Whitby Arts Incorporated,  The Station Gallery  Whitby, Ontario Nov - Dec 1987 Art Inuit Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  Montreal, Quebec March 1988 Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture Arctic Inuit Art Gallery  Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. March 1988 Iqaluit Inuit Gallery of Vancouver  Vancouver, British Columbia (catalogue) June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection  Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba October 1988 Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man  presented by Orca Aart at the  Adventurers' Club  Chicago, Illinois Nov - Dec 1988 [Inuit

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