Nujalia Quvianaqtuliaq
Artist Biography - Born 1972
Nujalia began his career as an Inuit Artist in 2009, creating his signature style drawings of the Arctic Landscape. He has shown himself to be an accomplished artist with a unique vision and style. His original drawings, often large scale, have become sought after by Inuit Art collectors around the world, for their wonderfully bold shapes and colors, and masterfully simplified abstractions of the arctic landscape.
In 2014 he joined the Cape Dorset printmaking studio as an apprentice, through the encouragement of his brother, Niviaksie Quvianaqtuliaq, a printmaker with the Kinngait Studios in Cape Dorset. He worked his way up in the lithography studio from humble beginnings as a sponger and is now an accomplished printmaker in his own right.
EXHIBITIONS:
May – June, 2012 The Unexpected, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON
Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 60 Years West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Anniversary Exhibition, Colborne Street Gallery, Fenelon Falls, ON
2020 - 2025 Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection, Various
June 9 – 25, 2022 Twelve by Twelve: 12 Great Works by 12 Great Artists, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto ON
COLLECTIONS:
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Government of Nunavut
REFERENCES:
Cutting Edge: Paper Today, Inuit Art Quarterly, Fall 2018
Being The Hyphen to The Nation, Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mai
