Maureen Gruben

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| name = Gruben, Maureen

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}

| birth_place = Tuktoyaktuk

| nationality = Inuvialuk

| education = Okanagan College, Kelowna (1990) and University of Victoria (2012)

| website = {{URL|https://www.maureengruben.com/}}

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Maureen Gruben is a Canadian Inuvialuk artist who works in sculpture, installation and public art.

Biography

Gruben was born in Tuktoyaktuk.{{Cite web | url=https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/art-seen-maureen-grubens-materiality-ranges-from-polar-bear-bones-to-bubble-wrap |title = Maureen Gruben's materiality: From polar bear bones to bubble wrap | Vancouver Sun| work=vancouversun |date = 2018-03-06}} She received a Diploma in Fine Arts from Okanagan College, Kelowna in 1990. In 2012 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria.

In May 2021 it was announced that Gruben was on the long list for the annual Sobey Art Award, one of five artists from the "Prairies and North".{{cite web |title=2021 Sobey Art Award Announces the 25 Longlist Artists from Across Canada |url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/2021-sobey-art-award-announces-the-25-longlist-artists-from-across-canada-884660167.html |website=National Gallery of Canada |publisher=Newswire Canada |access-date=18 September 2021 |language=en}}

In 2021 the National Gallery of Canada lifted its "40-and-under" age restriction allowing for the inclusion of Gruben and other artists.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Kate |title=We need to rethink our definition of 'emerging' artists |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-age-requirement-on-literary-awards-discriminate-against-late-boomers/ |website=The Globe and Mail |date=5 May 2021 |access-date=18 September 2021}}

Exhibitions

2020 Àbadakone, National Gallery of Canada.{{Cite web | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/take-a-look-at-this-tuktoyaktuk-artist-s-powerful-work-1.5403360?fbclid=IwAR2Cp6xpCU4ciKuP3kiPwnNgpQkqFXwN67PJcErI05718_9xvR6zojsEEEY |title = Take a look at this Tuktoyaktuk artist's powerful work | CBC News}}{{Cite web | url=https://canadianart.ca/features/abadakone-creates-community/ | title="Àbadakone" Creates Community}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201912/29/01-5255272-abadakone-feu-continuel-embrasser-le-postcolonialisme.php|title=Àbadakone | Feu continual: embrasser le postcolonialisme|date=December 30, 2019|website=La Presse |last1=Clément |first1=Éric }}
2019 Transit and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/essays/indigenous-world-building-at-the-vancouver-art-gallery/|title = Indigenous World-Building at the Vancouver Art Gallery}}
2019 Breathing Hole, Winnipeg Art Gallery{{Cite web | url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/breathing-hole/ |title = Breathing Hole|date = 2019-11-30}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/metro/WAG-unveils-two-new-galleries-565988561.html |title = WAG unveils two new galleries|newspaper = Winnipeg Free Press|date = 2019-12-09|last1 = Luschinski|first1 = Justin}}
2019 AIVIQ &NANUQ: Sea Horse and Sea Bear of the Arctic, Anchorage Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.anchoragepress.com/arts_and_entertainment/an-arctic-perspective-through-the-walrus-and-the-polar-bea/article_08aed7b0-e316-11e8-9606-67985d610efd.html|title=An Arctic Perspective through the Walrus and the Polar Bea|first=Art Sleuth by Jean|last=Bundy|website=The Anchorage Press|date=7 November 2018 }}
2019 yəhaw̓, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture ARTS Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/519264/y%c9%99haw%cc%93-arts-at-king-street-station-seattle/|title=A Team of Curators Designs a System for Indigenous Artists to Thrive In|date=September 25, 2019|website=Hyperallergic}}
2018 QULLIQ: In Darkness, Light, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver{{cite journal |last1=Burnham |first1=Clint |title=Maureen Gruben. QULLIQ: In Darkness, Light |journal=Espace Sculpture |date= 2018 |issue=120 |pages=86–87}}
2018 The Time of Things, Legacy Art Galleries, University of Victoria.http://uvac.uvic.ca/gallery/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/catalogue-WEB.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
2017 Grunt Gallery, Vancouver{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/canadian-art/20170615/281595240485664|title=|via=PressReader}}
2017 A Sense of Site, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia{{Cite web | url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/visual-arts-review-a-sense-of-site-at-the-agns/Content?oid=20682000 | title=Visual arts review: A Sense of Site at the AGNS}}
2017 Stitching my Landscape, Pingo National Landmark{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/canadian-geographic/20170315/281552290657334|title=|via=PressReader}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/stitching-my-landscape-arctic-installation/ | title=An Arctic Installation Marks the End of an Era| date=2017-08-17}}{{Cite web|url=http://gallatin.nyu.edu/about/gallatin-today/climate-change-initiative/climate-initiative/stitching-my-landscape.html|title=Stitching My Landscape, NYU Gallatin}}
2015 Custom Made, Kamloops Art Galleryhttps://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GG_Cat_Maureen_Unqalaq_2017_Web_01.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}