Josiah Nuilaalik RCA (1928 - 2005) (1). "I was told to make these things as people down south like to buy them." - Josiah Nuilaalik (2). A prominent Canadian Inuit* (Eskimo) sculptor, carver and... Read full biography
Josiah Nuilaalik RCA (1928 - 2005) (1). "I was told to make these things as people down south like to buy them." - Josiah Nuilaalik (2). A prominent Canadian Inuit* (Eskimo) sculptor, carver and printmaker, Josiah Nuilaalik was born in the Back River area (near the northern mainland shore) of the... Read full biography
Josiah Nuilaalik RCA (1928 - 2005) (1). "I was told to make these things as people down south like to buy them." - Josiah Nuilaalik (2). A prominent Canadian Inuit* (Eskimo) sculptor, carver and printmaker, Josiah Nuilaalik was born in the Back River area (near the northern mainland shore) of the District of Keewatin (now Nunavut) and lived in Baker Lake, Nunavut where he died. His works have been included in numerous landmark exhibitions and they are in several important museum collections.... Read full biography
Josiah Nuilaalik RCA (1928 - 2005) (1). "I was told to make these things as people down south like to buy them." - Josiah Nuilaalik (2). A prominent Canadian Inuit* (Eskimo) sculptor, carver and printmaker, Josiah Nuilaalik was born in the Back River area (near the northern mainland shore) of the District of Keewatin (now Nunavut) and lived in Baker Lake, Nunavut where he died. His works have been included in numerous landmark exhibitions and they are in several important museum collections. His mediums included stone, antler, bone, ivory, sinew, stonecut* print, jewellery and mixed mediums. His subjects were figures, Inuit genre, shamans, the spirit world, mythology, legends, fantasy, and Arctic wildlife. His styles could be described as... Read full biography
Josiah Nuilaalik RCA (1928 - 2005) (1). "I was told to make these things as people down south like to buy them." - Josiah Nuilaalik (2). A prominent Canadian Inuit* (Eskimo) sculptor, carver and printmaker, Josiah Nuilaalik was born in the Back River area (near the northern mainland shore) of the District of Keewatin (now Nunavut) and lived in Baker Lake, Nunavut where he died. His works have been included in numerous landmark exhibitions and they are in several important museum collections. His mediums included stone, antler, bone, ivory, sinew, stonecut* print, jewellery and mixed mediums. His subjects were figures, Inuit genre, shamans, the spirit world, mythology, legends, fantasy, and Arctic wildlife. His styles could be described as Realism*, Surrealism*, Primitive Art* and Inuit Art*. The AskART images are excellent illustrations of his most recognizable type of wor... Read full biography
Josiah Nuilaalik - Artist Info
About Josiah Nuilaalik: Books
Books & Publications (8)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Hessel, Ingo
240 pages (color)
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
Inuit: When Words Take Shape (Exhibition of Natural HIstory Museum of Lyon, 2003-2008) (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Brousseau, Raymond, et al
144 pages (color)
Biographies of Inuit Artists: Four Volumes
1993
Editor, Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs
0 pages
The Inuit Imagination: Arctic Myth and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Seidelman, Harold; James Turner
224 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit-
1992
Swinton, George
288 pages
Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art (National Museum of Man)