Tim Pitsiulak

Born in Kimmirut in 1967 to Napachie and Timila Pitsiulak, Tim has been living in Cape Dorset for several years. Tim has been drawn to the arts and various forms of artistic expression for many years. He started to draw as a young boy and would later take up carving and even attended jewellery-making workshops in Iqaluit.

The land and its wildlife were initial influences on Tim’s realist drawing style but more recently he has become a chronicler of the everyday. His current practice includes drawing large format, meticulously detailed depictions of boats, heavy equipment and airplanes – the machinery of modern life in Cape Dorset.

Tim is a hunter and his respect for the natural world and its wildlife is fundamental to his artistic sensibility. He is inspired by the whales that frequent the cold, Arctic waters – particularly the beluga and bowhead – because, as he says, “nobody really knows much about them”. The bowhead in particular is a majestic and mysterious creature and frequently he will embellish his drawings of these animals with tattoo-like graphics referencing ancient artefacts.

Tim was the subject of a feature article in the 2012 summer issue of The Walrus and in 2013 he conducted a printmaking workshop at New Leaf Studios in Vancouver. His work was selected by the Royal Canadian Mint to adorn a quarter coin and in 2016 he was inaugural participant in the annual Dorset Fine Arts Creative Residency at Open Studio. Tim continues to attract an avid following for his large naturalist drawings of Arctic wildlife.

Born on 1967 in Kimmirut, NU. Died on 2016. Nationality is Inuit

Exhibitions

2017 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2016 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2015 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2014 Cape Dorset: New Generation, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, AB
2014 Views from the North: Original Drawings from Cape Dorset, Alaska on Madison, New York, NY
2014 North South Encounter, Pierre - Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, PQ
2014 Arctic Voices, Science North, Sudbury, ON
2014 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2013-2014 Winter Show: Gallery Artists, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013 Tim Pitsiulak: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2013 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2013 Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? Identity in Contemporary Cape Dorset Art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
2013 The Hand of the Artist, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2013 Sanaunguabik: Traditions and Transformations in Inuit Art, Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2013 Cape Dorset Prints, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
2013 Dorset Seen, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2013 Animal Power: Images in Contemporary Inuit Art, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012 Tim Pitsiulak - Drawings of Myth and Machine, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
2013 The Unexpected, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2013 SAKAHAN, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2012-2013 Telling Stories: Inuit Art from Cape Dorset, Toronto Pearson International Airport (Terminal 1), Toronto, ON
2012 Dorset Now, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2012 The Unexpected, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2012 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2011 Drawing Attention: Recent Works by Tim Pitseolak, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON (illustrated catalogue)
2011-2012 New Art from Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2011 New Art from Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2011 Dorset Large: Large Scale drawings from the Kinngait Studios, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON (illustrated catalogue)
2011 Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON (Illustrated catalogue)
2011 Don’t Stop Me Now, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (illustrated catalogue)
2011 Contemporary North: Drawings from Cape Dorset, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC
2011 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2010 Tim Pitseolak, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2010 North Meets South, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2009-2010 Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (illustrated catalogue)
2009-2010 Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
2010 Big, Bold and Beautiful: Large Scale Drawings from Cape Dorset, Museum of Inuit Art, Toronto, ON
2010 Nipirasait: Many Voices, Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset, The Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, DC
2010 Cape Dorset Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2009-2010 Arctic Spirit: 50th Anniversary of Cape Dorset’s Kinngait Studios, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2009 Women of the North: Seen in Sculptures and Prints, Arctic Artistry, Chappagua, NY
2009 Small Sculptures by Great Artists, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON (illustrated brochure)
2009 Cape Dorset Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2008 Cape Dorset Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2005 Cape Dorset Print Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON