NUYALIAQ QIMIRPIK (NEWGALEAK; NEWGILLIAK; NUVALIAQ; NEWQUILLIAK;
NOWEELEEAK; QIMIRQPIQ; QAMIRQUIPIK; QUIRMIKPIK)
Born: July 11, 1937 Male E7-99
Resides: Kimmirut
Sculpture
Nuyaliaq has no preference for the types of materials he works with and will
carve using stone, ivory, whalebone or antler. His father is Lake Harbour
sculptor Ooloopie Killiktee. His wife Annie is a craft artist and sculptor.
His daughter Nakashoo, and his son Pitsiula, are both carvers.
EXHIBITIONS: 1971 Sculpture in Miniature
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November 1974
Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1975 Lake Harbour Eskimo Sculpture
Pucker/Safrai Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1977 Sculpture from Lake Harbour
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
March 1977 White Sculpture of the Inuit
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine
Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/
Dr. Harry Winrob Collection
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
April - June 1980 The Abbott Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(catalogue)
September - October 1981
The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November 1982
Inuit Sculpture 1982
The Raven Gallery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July - September 1983 Baffin Island
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1984 The Oral Tradition
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
October 1986 Masterwork Sculpture 1986
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
September - November 1987
The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1987 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux
France
November - December 1987
Art Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
December 1987 - February 1988 Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les
esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai,
at Musee des Beaux-arts d'Arras
Arras, France
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1988 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet
France
July 1988 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
France
October 1988 Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of
Animals and Man
presented by Orca Aart at the
Adventurers' Club
Chicago, Illinois
November 1988 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Les Martres-de-Veyre
France
November - December 1988
Sculpture Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1988
[Inuit Art Exhibition]
Orca Aart, presented at
Neiman Marcus
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
December 1988 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse
France
February 1989 Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's
Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists
at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited
presented by Orca Aart, Chicago
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
February - March 1989 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at St. Marcellin
France
March - April 1989 [L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris
France
June 1989 Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition
of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks
Presented by the Amway Corporation
at the United Nations General Assembly
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - July 1989 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle
France
October - Dec 1989 Baffin Images
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
November - Dec 1989 Sculpture Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
August 1990 Traditions and Innovations in Inuit Art
Sculpture in Stone
Images of the North
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
February - March 1991 Taste Of The Wild
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
May - August 1992 Hudson's Bay Company Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November - Dec 1992 Sculpture Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
July - September 1995 The Inuit: Managers of the Land
Chrysalis Gallery
Southampton, New York, U.S.A.
COLLECTIONS: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
SELECTED REFERENCES:
IN LAKE HARBOUR, CARVING IS A MAJOR ACTIVITY. Inuit Art
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1988. pp.22-29.
MASTERS OF THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit
Masterworks. Ada, Michigan: Amway Corporation, 1989.
Adamson, Arthur
THE SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Inuit Art Quarterly,
vol.3, no.1, Winter, 1988. pp.19-20.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
MASTERWORKS; SCULPTURE. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery of
Vancouver, 1986.
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
THE JACQUI AND MORRIS SHUMIATCHER COLLECTION OF INUIT ART.
Regina: The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1981.
Pucker/Safrai Gallery
LAKE HARBOUR ESKIMO SCULPTURE. Boston: Pucker/Safrai Gallery,
1975.
Raven Gallery
INUIT SCULPTURE 1982. Minneapolis: The Raven Gallery, 1982.
Surrey Art Gallery
SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Lorne Balshine Collection/Lou Osipov
Collection/Dr. Harry Winrob Collection. Surrey: The Surrey Art
Gallery, 1978.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Walrus Imports
CATALOGUE OF INUIT ART. Kennebunkport, Maine: Walrus Imports,
1974.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAFFIN ISLAND. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
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