EKIDLUAK KOMOARTUK   (QUMUAQTUQ; EKIDLUAQ; EKILLUAQ; AKEYLUAH; KOMOAKTOK; 
                             KUMUATU; KOMOARTOK)
       Born:  June 30, 1923       Male       E6-487
       Place of Birth:  Southampton Island
       Died:  August 24, 1993
       Resided:  Pangnirtung; also lived in Cape Dorset, Cambridge Bay and Spence Bay
       Sculpture, Prints, Drawings, Tapestries
             "Once I get an idea of the design, I make a drawing, and bring it to    
       the Co-op.  I'm not trying to be the best artist; I bring what I'm able to    
       draw.  I had no ambition to draw in childhood.  I was never good at making    
       anything for us to survive on.  Before we moved to Pangnirtung, I prayed to be
       able to make some money on my own, and not just rely on other people.  I      
       requested, not from a person, from the one you can't see, to be able to make  
       something, anything.  Years passed, and then I started to draw.  My petition  
       would seem to have been answered.  I don't use it to be famous.  The income   
       goes to my family, not for useless things.  Well, I'm not wise about handling 
       money, but whether I have a job or not, we go through a lot of money in a     
       year.  I've learned that people everywhere try to come up with a way to       
       survive, and overcome hardships."                                             
                                              - Pangnirtung Print Catalogue 1987     
                                                                                     
       Ekidluak's late wife Leah was a carver. Two of their children; daughter       
       Olassie Akulukjuk and son Stevie, are also artists.                           

       EXHIBITIONS:
       Aug - Sep 1968                Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and
                                                   Paintings of Norval Morrisseau                    
                                                   Art Association of Newport                        
                                                   Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       April 1976                          Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
                                                   Baffin Regional School                            
                                                   Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
       1985, 1986, 1987,
       1988, 1992,  1993           Pangnirtung Print Collection
                                                  (annual collection)                               
                                                  (illustrated catalogue)
       July - November 1987      Useful Bits of Bone
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba

       Dec 1987 - Feb 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)
       November 1988                [L'art inuit]
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Les Martres-de-Veyre                           
                                                   France
       Dec 1988 - Jan 1989       [L'art inuit]
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris                    
                                                   France
       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 - July 1989                Art Inuit
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle                  
                                                   France
       December 1989               Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
                                                   Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                   at Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de la Wallonie,   
                                                   Liege                                             
                                                   Belgium
       February - March 1990    Beeldhouwkunst van de Inuit (Canada)
                                                   by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, France            
                                                   at Amphora Finippon pvba, Sint Andries,           
                                                   Brugge, Belgium                                   

      Nov - Dec 1990                 Art Inuit:  Autour de la Collection de Cape
                                                  Dorset 1990                                       
                                                  Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai          
                                                  at Centre Culturel Canadien                       
                                                  Paris, France
       Jan - Feb 1991                 Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
                                                   The Upstairs Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
       January - March 1992      The Arctic Project: A Photographic Exchange
                                                   Surrey Art Gallery                                
                                                   Surrey, British Columbia
       February 1992                   Artists and Weavers III: Fine Tapestries from
                                                   Canadian Arctic                                   
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
       March 1993                       Inuit Art from Pangnirtung
                                                   Marsh Gallery                                     
                                                   University of Richmond                            
                                                   Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
       Nov 1993 - Jan 1994        Contemporary Inuit Drawings
                                                   Muscarelle Museum of Art                          
                                                   College of William and Mary                       
                                                   Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       May 1994                           Artists and Weavers IV
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
       Nov 1995 - Jan 1996        Qiviuq: A Legend in Art
                                                   Carleton University Art Gallery                   
                                                   Ottawa, Ontario
       February 1996                   The Spirit World - 1977 to 1990: Baker Lake
                                                   Clyde River and Pangnirtung Prints.               
                                                   A retrospective collection exhibited at           
                                                   selected commercial galleries, organized by       
                                                   Canadian Arctic Producers                         
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
      SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
       April - May 1988               Drawings: Ikidluaq Kumuartok
                                                   The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art                  
                                                   Toronto, Ontairo
       COLLECTIONS:
       Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
       Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario  
       National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 
       Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories  
       HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
       1990     Ekidluak's drawing "Hope for the Future" was chosen for a set of commissioned
                     prints for Dow Canada's Partnership with Pangnirtung project. He also designed
                     the logo for this project.
       1992     Received grant to do a series of coloured pencils drawings about how older
                     Inuit see the world.
       SELECTED REFERENCES:
       Komoartuk, Ekidluak                               
           DRAWINGS BY EKIDLUAK KOMOARTOK OF PANGNIRTUNG.  Toronto: The
           Inuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1988.
       Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg)           
           CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS:  The gift collection of Frederick
           and Lucy S. Herman.  Williamsburg, Va.:  The College of William
           and Mary in Virginia, 1993.

     Musee des Beaux-Arts (Arras, France)              
           INUK, INUIT:  Art et tradition chez les Esquimaux d'hier et
           d'aujourd'hui.  Arras, France: Musee des Beaux-Arts, 1987.
       Thorne,  Sarah, ed.                               
           DIMENSIONS:  Partnership with Pangnirtung.  Sarnia,  Ont. : Dow
           Chemical Canada,  Department  of Employee Communications, 1990.
       Watt, Virginia                                    
           REFLECTING ON PANGNIRTUNG WEAVING.  Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7,
           no. 3, summer/fall 1992, pp. 59-61.

       (c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995