TIM PITSIULAK
Date of Birth: 1967 Male/Female: Male
Place of Birth: Kimmirut (Lake Harbour); Reside, Cape Dorset
Mother: Napatchie Pitsiulak
Father: Timila Pitsiulak
Tim Pitsiulak has been drawn to the arts and various forms of artistic expression for many years. He started to draw as a young boy and later took up carving as well. He has also participated in jewellery-making workshops offered in Iqaluit.
Born in Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) in 1967 to Napachie (deceased) and Timila Pitsiulak, Tim has been living in Cape Dorset for several years now and has enjoyed working in the lithography studio with visiting arts advisor, Bill Ritchie. The land and its wildlife were initially the primary influences on Tim’s realist drawing style. More recently he has become a chronicler of the everyday, drawing large format, meticulously detailed depictions of boats, heavy equipment and airplanes – the machinery of modern life in Cape Dorset.
Tim is a hunter and his respect for the natural world and its wildlife is fundamental to his artistic sensibility. Tim is particularly inspired by the whales that frequent the cold, Arctic waters - the beluga and the bowhead - because, as he says, nobody really knows much about them. The bowhead in particular is a majestic and mysterious creature and frequently he will embellish his drawings of these animals with ‘tattoos’ of ancient artifacts.
His artistic career was recently featured in the 2012 summer issue of The Walrus magazine and in 2013 he attended a very productive printmaking workshop at New Leaf Studios in Vancouver.
Tim continues to attract an avid following for his large naturalist drawings of Arctic wildlife.
EXHIBITIONS:
2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Cape Dorset Graphics 2012, 2013,2014 (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)
September – October, 2009 Women of the North: Seen in Sculptures and Prints Arctic Artistry Chappagua, New York
October, 2009 – April, 2010 Arctic Spirit: 50th Anniversary of Cape Dorset’s Kinngait Studios Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Ontario
December, 2009 Small Sculptures by Great Artists 2
Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)
June – July, 2010 North Meets South Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
Oct 2009 – Jan 2010 Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)
October, 2009 – January, 2010 Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth McMichael Canadian Art Collection Kleinburg, Ontario
January, 2010 – March, 2010 Big, Bold and Beautiful: Large Scale Drawings from Cape Dorset Museum of Inuit Art Toronto, Ontario
July – December, 2010 Nipirasait: Many Voices Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset The Canadian Embassy Art Gallery Washington, DC
October – April, 2011 New Art from Cape Dorset Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba
June 2011 Dorset Large: Large Scale drawings from the Kinngait Studios Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)
April, 2011 Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Ontario (Illustrated catalogue) May, 2011 – November, 2011 Don’t Stop Me Now National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)
November, 2011 Contemporary North: Drawings from Cape Dorset Madrona Gallery Victoria, British Columbia
October 2011– April, 2012 New Art from Cape Dorset Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba 3
February 2012 Dorset Now Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
December 2012 - May 2013 Telling Stories: Inuit Art from Cape Dorset Toronto Pearson International Airport (Terminal 1) Toronto, Ontario
May – June, 2012 The Unexpected Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
February - June 2013 Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? Identity in Contemporary Cape Dorset Art McMichael Canadian Art Collection Kleinburg, Ontario
October - November 2013 The Hand of the Artist Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
October - December 2013 Sanaunguabik: Traditions and Transformations in Inuit Art Enterprise Square Gallery Edmonton, Alberta
October - December 2013 Cape Dorset Prints Gallery 210 St. Louis, Missouri
April - June 2013 Dorset Seen Carleton University Art Gallery Ottawa Ontario
April - June 2013 Animal Power: Images in Contemporary Inuit Art Marion Scott Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia
May - June 2013 The Unexpected Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
May - September 2013 SAKAHAN National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario
December 2013 - January 2014 Winter Show: Gallery Artists Marion Scott Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia
January 2014 Cape Dorset: New Generation Willock and Sax Gallery Banff Art Gallery Banff, Alberta 4
January - March 2014 Views from the North: Original Drawings from Cape Dorset Alaska on Madison New York, New York
February - March 2014 North South Encounter Pierre - Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain Montreal Quebec
March 2014 Arctic Voices Science North Sudbury, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
November, 2010 Tim Pitseolak Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
November, 2011 Drawing Attention: Recent Works by Tim Pitseolak Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)
April, 2012 Tim Pitsiulak - Drawings of Myth and Machine Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia
November 2013 Tim Pitsiulak: Looking Back, Looking Forward Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario
COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of Ontario National Gallery of Canada Canadian Museum of Civilization
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