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MARK TUNGILIK (TONGELIK; TONGIKIK; TUNGALIK; MARC; TANGALIK) Born: 1913 Male E3-320
Place of Birth: Netjilik Ilani
Died: September 22, 1986
Resided: Repulse Bay; also lived in Pelly Bay, Wager Bay and Igloolik
Sculpture
"He began carving when he was a teenager and his first works were human
figures in stone, usually holding ivory harpoons. Dogteams became a specialty
and Tungilik remembers carving these completely from ivory, including the
harnesses. This was a difficult task, however, and visual records of his work
show that he was using sinew and other natural substances in his complex
scenes of the 1950s."
Darlene Wight
Marc Tungilik--Recent Sculpture
1982
Mark's late wife, Louise Anguatsiark Tungilik (1982), was a carver and
crafts artist. His brother Anthanese Ullikatar was also a Repulse Bay artist.
EXHIBITIONS: 1951 Eskimo Art
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
May 1953 Eskimo Carvings: Coronation Exhibition
Gimpel Fils
London, England
(illustrated catalogue)
1955 Eskimo Sculpture
arranged by the Department of Northern
Affairs and National Resources, and the
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(catalogue)
1967 Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative
Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
June - July 1970 Sculpture
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
a competition/exhibition organized as
a contribution to the Centennial of the
N.W.T.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
(illustrated catalogue)
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1973 The Bessie Bulman Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1973 Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions
des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1975 In Celebration of Canadian Arctic
Producers Tenth Anniversary
Canadian Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
March - July 1976 The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1977 White Sculpture of the Inuit
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1978 - April 1979 Repulse Bay
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Sep - October 1979 Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene B. Power
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1979 In Celebration
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
April - June 1980 The Abbott Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(catalogue)
1981 Ivory Sculpture
Snow Goose
Ottawa, Ontario
April 1982 Sculpture Inuit: Stone/Bone
circa 1960-1979
Canadiana Galleries
Edmonton, Alberta
October - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
November - Dec 1983 Three Exhibitions of Miniature Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
1985 - 1986 Sanaugasi Takujaksat: A Travelling
Celebration of Inuit Sculpture
Presented by Canadian Arctic Producers
Ltd., with the assistance of
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada,
Ottawa
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov 1985 - April 1986 Aboriginal Rights in Canada
National Library of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
December 1985 Masterwork Sculpture 1985
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July - September 1986 Contemporary Inuit Art
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
July 1986 - Feb 1988 Selections from the John and Mary Robertson
Collection of Inuit Art
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Nov 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1990 - July 1992 The First Passionate Collector: The
Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1992 - Mar 1993 Inuit Ivories from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1996 Major/Minor
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1973 Mark Tungilik
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
May 1973 Sculpture by Mark Tungilik of Repulse Bay
Snow Goose
Ottawa, Ontario
May - June 1982 Marc Tungilik - Recent Sculpture
Images Art Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1982 Miniature Ivory Sculptures by Tungilik
from Repulse Bay
Le Centre D'art
Montreal, Quebec
COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1948 One of Marc Tungilik's carvings, a miniature bust of Christ carved from
walrus tooth, was presented to Pope Pius XII.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art
of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
Blodgett, Jean
CHRISTIANITY AND INUIT ART. The Beaver, Autumn, 1984. pp.16-25.
Blodgett, Jean
SELECTIONS FROM THE JOHN AND MARY ROBERTSON COLLECTION OF INUIT
SCULPTURE. Kingston, Ont. : Queens University, The Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1986.
Brandson, Lorraine E.
CARVED FROM THE LAND: The Eskimo Museum Collection. Churchill,
Man.: Diocese of Churchill Hudson Bay, 1994.
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de
l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS QUEBEC. = GUILDE CANADIENNE DES METIERS
D'ART QUEBEC: The Permanent Collection: Inuit Arts and Crafts,
c. 1900-1980. Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980.
Driscoll, Bernadette
UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1985.
Marion Scott Gallery
INSPIRATION: FOUR DECADES OF SCULPTURE BY CANADIAN INUIT:
Curated by Norman Zepp. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery [1996].
Moore, Lisa
ART OF THE INUIT. The Whig Standard Magazine, August 2, 1986.
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Simon Fraser Gallery
WHITE SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT. Burnaby: The Simon Fraser
Gallery, 1977.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Tungilik, Mark
MARC TUNGILIK: Recent Sculpture. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic
Producers Cooperative Limited, 1982.
Van de Velde, Franz
CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTISTS: A Biographical Dictionary: Pelly Bay.
[By] Father Franz Van de Velde, O.M.I. Yellowknife: Government
of the Northwest Territories, 1970.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
REPULSE BAY. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
THE ABBOTT COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1980.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
THE FIRST PASSIONATE COLLECTOR: THE IAN LINDSAY COLECTION OF
INUIT ART: Le premier collectionneur passionne: La Collection
d'art inuit Ian Lindsay. Winnipeg : Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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