{"id":3433,"date":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artist-3"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:54:02","slug":"maureen-pits","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/artists\/maureen-gruben\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Gruben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maureen Gruben (born 1963)<\/strong> is a Canadian Inuvialuk artist who works in sculpture, installation and public art. In her practice, polar bear fur, beluga intestines and seal skins encounter resins, vinyl, bubble wrap and metallic tape, forging critical links between life in the Western Canadian Arctic and global environmental and cultural concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gruben was born and raised in Tuktoyaktuk where her parents were traditional knowledge keepers and founders of E. Gruben\u2019s Transport. She holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and has exhibited regularly across Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was longlisted for the 2019 Aesthetica Art Prize and the 2021 Sobey Art Prize, and her work is held in national and private collections.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-3433","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}