Ottokie Ashoona was born at an outpost camp twenty miles from Cape Dorset. Ottokie is the son of very well known artists Kaka and Mayureak Ashoona. His brother is Ohito Ashoona. Ottokie and his family moved to Cape Dorset in the early 1970's.Ottokie is a self-taught carver who began carving when he was 10 years old. His favourite subject matter is the polar bear.-------------Ottokie AshoonaSedna Ottokie Ashoona was born on December 17th, 1970 at an outpost camp located twenty miles from Cape Dorset on Baffin Island in Canada's high arctic.Ottokie is the son of very well known artists Kaka (now deceased) and Mayureak Ashoona. His step-brother is Ohito Ashoona. His grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona was famous for her drawings and prints.Ottokie and his family moved to Cape Dorset in the early 1970's where he now lives.Ottokie taught himself to carve when he was 10 years old. He prefers to carve polar bears which he carves in every pose imaginable: swimming, crouching, sitting, sleeping, on the prowl.He also carves other animals as well as spirits and sednas.

Exhibitions

• Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
• Arctic Wildlife: The Art of the Inuit, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal
• Bears of the North, Snow Goose Associates
• Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Cape Dorset - Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Cape Dorset Engravings and Etchings from the Sixties, Arctic Artistry
• Echoes of the Drum, Gallery of the Arctic
• Hunters of Old, Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
• Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Small Sculptures by Great Artists III, Feheley Fine Arts
• Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings, McMichael Canadian Collection
• The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Collections

• Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
• Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• Mark Osterlin Library, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

Publications

• GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS — Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art, Author: Blodgett, Jean, Publication: Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (1983)
• HOLMAN 1990 ANNUAL GRAPHICS COLLECTION, Author: Holman Eskimo Co-operative Ltd., Publication: Holman Island: Holman Eskimo Co-operative Ltd. (1990)
• INTERPRETATIONS OF NORTHERN LANDSCAPES: — Works by seven emerging local artists., Author: Lamar, Anne, Publication: St John's : Sunday Express, 13 November (1988)