Uriash Puqiqnak CM (born 1946) (1). A prominent Inuit* Canadian, Uriash Puqiqnak (disc number* E4-556) was born in the Utkuhiksalik, Back River, area on Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut (April 15, 1946) and... Read full biography
Uriash Puqiqnak CM (born 1946) (1). A prominent Inuit* Canadian, Uriash Puqiqnak (disc number* E4-556) was born in the Utkuhiksalik, Back River, area on Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut (April 15, 1946) and lives in Gjoa Haven (aka: Uqsuqtuuq), Nunavut. He is a carver, sculptor, educator, historian, and an... Read full biography
Uriash Puqiqnak CM (born 1946) (1). A prominent Inuit* Canadian, Uriash Puqiqnak (disc number* E4-556) was born in the Utkuhiksalik, Back River, area on Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut (April 15, 1946) and lives in Gjoa Haven (aka: Uqsuqtuuq), Nunavut. He is a carver, sculptor, educator, historian, and an important leader in the Nunavut community. He has served in their legislature as an MLA (2000 – 2004) and as Acting Speaker (2000); and, as Mayor of Gjoa Haven (2005 – 2009). He has also served on the... Read full biography
Uriash Puqiqnak CM (born 1946) (1). A prominent Inuit* Canadian, Uriash Puqiqnak (disc number* E4-556) was born in the Utkuhiksalik, Back River, area on Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut (April 15, 1946) and lives in Gjoa Haven (aka: Uqsuqtuuq), Nunavut. He is a carver, sculptor, educator, historian, and an important leader in the Nunavut community. He has served in their legislature as an MLA (2000 – 2004) and as Acting Speaker (2000); and, as Mayor of Gjoa Haven (2005 – 2009). He has also served on the town council, and on various influential local, territorial, and national committees. He was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada* (CM) in 2005 and his biography is in the Canadian Who’s Who book. His art works have been exhibited widely and... Read full biography
Uriash Puqiqnak CM (born 1946) (1). A prominent Inuit* Canadian, Uriash Puqiqnak (disc number* E4-556) was born in the Utkuhiksalik, Back River, area on Chantrey Inlet, Nunavut (April 15, 1946) and lives in Gjoa Haven (aka: Uqsuqtuuq), Nunavut. He is a carver, sculptor, educator, historian, and an important leader in the Nunavut community. He has served in their legislature as an MLA (2000 – 2004) and as Acting Speaker (2000); and, as Mayor of Gjoa Haven (2005 – 2009). He has also served on the town council, and on various influential local, territorial, and national committees. He was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada* (CM) in 2005 and his biography is in the Canadian Who’s Who book. His art works have been exhibited widely and are in several museum collections. (2). His mediums included whalebone*, stone, bone, marine ivory, and antler. His primary subjects are gr... Read full biography
Uriash Puqiqnak - Artist Info
About Uriash Puqiqnak: Books
Books & Publications (17)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Atiqput: Inuit Odral History and Project Naming (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal)
2022
Payne, Carol (Editor) et al
264 pages
Canadian Who;s Who 2022
2021
Paterson, Stuart (Managing Editor)
1,400 pages
Sculpture in Canada: A History
2017
Tippett, Maria
272 pages (color)
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite The Birth of Class and Nationalsim Among Canadian Inuit
2014
Mitchell, Marbella
568 pages
The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
2008
Wight, Darlene and Zebedee Nungak
136 pages (color)
Netsilik Vision (Inuti Gallery of Vancouver)
2008
Zavediuk, Melanie
20 pages (color)
An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
2007
Crandall, Richard C. and Susan M. Crandall
458 pages
Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut
2004
Bennett, John R. and Susan Rowley
473 pages (color)
The Faye and Bert Settler Collection (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
2004
Blodgett, Jean, Darlene Wight and Robert Enright
160 pages
Vision and Form: The Norman Zepp-Judith Varga Collection of Inuit Art (Marion Scott Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Kardosh, Robert
172 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A History
2000
Crandall, Richard C.
420 pages
Uriash, Wayne and Kenneth Puqiqnak: Father and Sons (The Upstairs Gallery, Winnepeg
2000
Kroeker, Richard
15 pages
Northern Rock: Contemporary Inuit Stone Sculpture (McMichael Canadian Art Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Giustavision, Susan Joan, et al
192 pages (color)
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: Horizons (Inuit Gallery of Vancouver) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Zavediuk, Melanie
44 pages
Inuit Art: An Introduction
1998
Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel
198 pages (color)
The Treasured Monument: An Exhibition of Small-Scale Canadian Inuit Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Marion Scott Gallery
47 pages
Kitikmeot: Land of the Spirits (Inuit Gallery of Vancouver)