{"id":11453,"date":"2021-08-02T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=11453"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:42:32","slug":"remembering-floyd-kuptana-1964-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/remembering-floyd-kuptana-1964-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Floyd Kuptana (1964-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Scream<\/em> by Floyd Kuptana
collage; 2019. Courtesy of Richard D. Mohr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj Magazine<\/em> was saddened to learn that Inuit carver, painter and collagist Floyd Kuptana died on the streets of Toronto during the early hours of May 27, 2021. Richard D. Mohr, who wrote about Kuptana in Kolaj<\/em> 27<\/a>, writes, “His social worker with Toronto\u2019s Street Survivors Program reports that the police say they found no evidence of violence or suspicious activity. He was often in and out of hospitals, police vans, and rehab centers. He was known to have heart problems. His life and art were as unusual and untidy as they were intense.” Of Yupik and Inupiat descent, Kuptana was born in Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, moving to Toronto in 1996. Born into a family of carvers, Kuptana was carving on his own by 1993. He added acrylic painting and collage to his repertoire in 2010 and 2012 respectively. In Kolaj<\/em> 27, Mohr wrote, \u201cHe tweakingly appropriates white folks\u2019 popular culture, their distinctive ideas (like universal surveillance–an inukshuk comes to life as a panoptic guard tower), their social forms (like gender bending\u2013the head and legs of the Creature from the Black Lagoon bracket a one-piece bathing suit to form a gender sandwich), and their art movements.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kolaj Magazine was saddened to learn that Inuit carver, painter and collagist Floyd Kuptana died on the streets of Toronto during the early hours of May 27, 2021. Richard D. Mohr, who wrote about Kuptana in Kolaj 27, writes, “His…<\/p>\n

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