Abraham Anghik Ruben

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abraham Anghik Ruben
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Nov 26, 1951(1951-11-26)
Age	73
Birthplace	Paulatuk
Country	Canada
Birth City	Northwest Territories
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Abraham Anghik Ruben Biography

Abraham Anghik Ruben is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on November 26, 1951 in Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Abraham Anghik Ruben (born 1951) OC is a sculptor of Inuvialuit ancestry. Ruben was born south of the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Inuvik Region east of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories, Canada in 1951.

Ruben met Toronto-based artist and art dealer and owner of the Pollock Gallery, Jack Pollock and Eva Quan in the 1970s. They introduced his work to the Toronto art scene over the next five years. Ruben’s first solo exhibitions were held in The Pollock Gallery in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980. Pollock described Ruben as a contemporary sculptor with Inuit ancestry”.

Abraham Anghik Ruben Net Worth

Abraham Anghik Ruben is one of the richest Sculptor from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abraham Anghik Ruben 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ruben was born on November 26, 1951 at their winter camp which was located at the old Catholic coal mine, about 35 miles southeast of Paulatuk. The rich vein of coal in the Paulatuk region was used as fuel by the Inuit, then the American whalers and for the missionaries, who set up their mission in 1938. Until 1959, Ruben lived the traditional semi-nomadic Inuvialuit lifestyle with their “small band of 10-15 families” moving between seasonal fishing and hunting camps surviving on caribou, moose, muskox, game birds, waterfowl and sea mammals. In 1955, when Ruben was four-years-old, his brother, David Ruben Piqtoukun, who was one year older and their older sister Martha, were the first of the 14 siblings sent to the residential school in Aklavik. David and Martha did not see their family again until 1958. Ruben represented the traumatic 1955 experience through his mother’s eyes in his 2001 sculpture entitled The Last Goodbye. In 1959, Ruben, his siblings and cousins were sent to the residential school, Grollier Hall, in Inuvik where he remained until 1970.

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After surviving cancer in late 2004, Ruben’s sculpture reflected his interest in the Inuit/Norse Viking “contact period from the early 900s to the 1400s” long before Europeans arrived in North America. In his biography, Ruben described how he was partly inspired by the story of his maternal aunt, Paniabuluk, who became the Inuit wife of Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and who assisted him on many of his expeditions. In the early 20th century other Nordic visitors overwintered in Ruben’s ancestral lands. Since then, Ruben has researched the “cultures of the circumpolar world, including those of Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland and Iceland” and found resonance between Inuit narratives and myths which is expressed through his art.

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Maria Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Abraham Anghik Ruben celebrates birthday on November 26 of every year.

Ruben works with a wide variety of materials including whalebone, narwal tusk, “soapstone from British Columbia, Oregon, Brazil and South Africa; alabaster from Utah, Portugual and Italy, Italian Carrara marble” and bronze. Some of his largest pieces weigh tons. He incorporates “images and themes from diverse northern cultures, including Viking and Norse.” Since 2007, Ruben has been represented by the Kipling Gallery in Woodbridge, Ontario run by two Italian Canadian owners, Rocco Pannese and Lou Ruffolo, who opened their gallery in

2004. In 2008, they hosted the 2008 exhibition “Abraham Anghik Ruben: Myths, Stories, Legends” with an illustrated catalogue, and another solo exhibition in 2009.