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Tim
Pitsiulak

Credit: Courtesy Brittany Carmichael
Tim
Pitsiulak

Medium:

drawing, jewellry, photography, printmaking, sculpture/carving

Artistic Community:

Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU

Date of Birth:

Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.

Kimmirut, NU
1967

Date of Death:

Artists may have multiple dates of death listed as a result of when and where they passed away. Similar to date of birth, an artist may have passed away outside of a community centre or in another community resulting in different dates being recorded.

2016

Work

Biography

Tim Pitsiulak was a Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU-based artist who worked primarily in drawing and printmaking. He first gained broader attention in 2005 through the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, followed by solo shows at Feheley Fine Arts in 2009. A prolific hunter, Pitsiulak spent much of his time on the land and is best known for his highly detailed renderings of walruses, whales and other marine life. Through both his photographs of the landscape and its inhabitants as well as his stunningly rich drawings and prints, Pitsiulak translated his experiences of daily Arctic life into a rich, graphic world.View Long Biography and Citations

Publications

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Title Year Author
Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak Winter 2018 Lisa Myers
raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015) November 20, 2018 Ryan Rice
An inside look at the AGO’s largest showcase of Inuit art July 13, 2018 Will Sloan

Exhibitions

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Name Year Gallery
Contemporary Drawings from Cape Dorset September 20 – October 6, 2019 Inuit Fine Art
Shifting Geographies September 19 - October 26, 2019 University of Alberta Museums
Spectacular Beings June - July 2018 Feheley Fine Arts

Achievements

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Achievement Year Organization
Cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly Spring 2019 Inuit Art Foundation
Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection 2005 - 2014 Dorset Fine Arts
Cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly Fall 2008 Inuit Art Foundation

Filmography

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Title Release Date Role
Kinngait: Riding Light Into the World 2009 Artist

Public Collections

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Collection Location
Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, ON, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank Ottawa, ON, Canada
Canadian Museum of History Gatineau, QC, Canada

Edit History

June 12, 2018 Edited by: Inuit Art Foundation
February 5, 2018 Updated By: Lera Kotsyuba