Maria Panínguakʼ Kjærulff

Maria Panínguakʼ Kjærulff
Born1980
Copenhagen
Alma materNSCAD University
Cooper Union
Known forPainting
Notable workSkovkalkuner (painting)

Maria Panínguakʼ Kjærulff (born 1980) is a Greenlandic Inuit artist and actor.

Her art has been exhibited in the National Museum of Greenland and is on permanent display at the Nuuk Art Museum. Kjærulff has been commissioned to produce art for four Greenlandic postage stamps.

As an actor, she played a nurse in the 2009 film Nuummioq.

Early life and education

Kjærulff was born 1980 in Copenhagen to a Greenlandic Inuit mother and a Danish father.[1] She moved to Greenland at the age of six.[2]

Kjærulff received her high school education in Minnesota, USA.[2] She has a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, Canada, which included work at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, USA.[1][3][4]

Career

Kjærulff is primarily known for her painting and her style of using broad and expressive brush strokes.[1][2] She has also worked as an actor, playing a nurse in the 2009 Greenlandic film Nuummioq.[2][5]

Her first solo exhibition was held in 2006 at the National Museum of Greenland entitled Tingerlaaq (English: First Flight).[1] The exhibition included her 2004 painting Skovkalkuner (English: Turkeys), which is currently displayed in the Nuuk Art Museum’s permanent collection.[1] Also in the collection is her 2008 painting of the concrete residential buildings in Nuuk.[1]

In 2019, Kjærulff created the art used in a Greenlandic postage stamp, the fourth stamp she was commissioned to paint.[6] Proceeds of the sale of the stamp benefited the Salvation Army.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Hansen, Stine Lundberg (2016). "Maria Panínguak' Kjærulff (b. 1980)". Nuuk Art Museum. Archived from the original on 19 July 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Meredith, America (16 January 2013). "Maria Panínguakʼ Kjærulff". First American Art Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Maria Panínguak` Kjærulff: About". mariagreenland.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  4. ^ Frandsen, Pertti (18 January 2019). "The Salvation Army in Greenland - beneficiary of the 2019 additional-value stamp - About the Artist". Greenland Collector. POST Greenland. p. 4. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2022 – via Issuu.
  5. ^ "Maria P. Kjærulff - Actress". IMDb. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b Sommer, Karsten (7 January 2019). "2019 byder på 24 nye frimærker" [TELE-POST 2019 offers 24 new stamps]. Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (in Danish). Archived from the original on 1 June 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  7. ^ "TELE-POST udgiver 24 nye frimærker i løbet af året" [TELE-POST issues 24 new stamps during the year]. TELE-POST (in Danish). 4 January 2019. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2022.