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Oviloo Tunnillie
OVILOO TUNNILLIE (TOONOO; OVILU; OOVEELOOK; OVELOOK; TUNILLIE)
Date of Birth: December 20, 1949 Male/Female: Female E7-779
Place of Birth: Cape Dorset
Mother: Sheojuke Tunnillie
Father: Toonoo Tunnillie
Oviloo comes from a very artistic family in the community of Cape Dorset. Her parents, Toonoo and Sheojuke were artists, as are her brother, Koperqualuk and her sister, Napatchie.
“I started carving seriously in1973 but my first carving was actually done in 1965, after the birth of my first child. I like to carve using different types of stone and I allow myself to be flexible, exploring different subject matter in my carvings. I like to carve things that are different from what many would perceive as typical Inuit art, and for that reason I find that my work is well received. (Oviloo Tunnillie,1996).
EXHIBITIONS:
Our Land Transforming: Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of the Inuit
Arctic Raven Gallery
One Front Street, Second Floor
POB 2139
Friday Harbor, Washington, U.S.A.
(brochure)
1976 Debut – Cape Dorset Jewellery
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
(brochure)
April 1976 Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
Baffin Regional School
Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
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)
August – September 1979 Cape Dorset; Recent Sculpture
Gallery of the Arctic
Victoria, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1983 Fantasy and Stylization – Cape Dorset Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
February 1984 – June 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
September – October 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle Gallery
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
November – December 1987 Art Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
November 1987 – January 1988 Inuitkonst fran Kanada – sculptor och grafik
Millesgarden
Lidingo, Sweden
(illustrated catalogue)
June – September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 1988 Opening Exhibition
Nunavut Fine Arts Limited
Toronto, Ontario
May 1989 Birds: Sculpture from Cape Dorset
& Rock Ptarmigan Limited Edition
Print by Kananginak
The Guild Shop
Toronto, Ontario
June – July 1990 Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
February – March 1991 Cape Dorset Sculpture
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
July 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Chapelle de la Visitation
Thonon, France
July – August 1991 Glaciopolis: Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Maison de Pesey
Les Arcs, France
August – September 1991 Cape Dorset Stone Sculpture: Masters and the Next Generation
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December 1991 The Hand: Images in Inuit Sculpture
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November – December 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
At Le Colombier
Ville D’Avray, France
January – March 1992 Images of Influence: Contemporary Inuit Art
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
June – July 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October – November 1992 Arctic Ice: Sculpture in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, N.W.T.
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December 1992 Inuit Sculpture – New Acquisitions
Pucker Gallery
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
December 1992 Small Sculptures by Great Artists I
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – November 1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
November – December 1993 Sculpture Inuit et Retrospective Pudlo Pudlat
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
November – December 1993 Inuit Sculpture
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
November 1993 – March 1994 The Inuit Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1993 Small Sculptures by Great Artists II
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September – October 1994 The Tunnillie Family of Cape Dorset
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
September – October 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo’s
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated catalogue)
October – November 1994 Sculpture by Women
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
October 1994 – September 1995 Insumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
May – September 1995 Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut: Things from the Past
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September 1995 Sedna: Spirit of the Sea
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – December 1995 The Next Generation
Orca Aart Gallery
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1995 – January 1996 Inuit Art: from the collection of Maurice Yacowar
Collector’s Gallery
Calgary, Alberta
March – April 1996 Major/Minor
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
September – November 1996 Oviloo Tunnillie, Jutai Toonoo and Tytoosie Tunnillie
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
November 1996 Small Sculptures by Great Artists V
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
November – December 1996 Emerging Spirits
Banff Centre
Organized by Northern Art Impressions, Inc.
Banff, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
November – December 1996 New Visions
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
January 1997 Transitions: Contemporary Canadian Indian and Inuit Art
Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Paris, France
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April 1997 Major/Minor
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
March – April 1997 itinraire inuit
Rencontrer un peuple travers son art
Held at Unesco Headquarters
Sponsored by association Inukshuk L’homme debo
Paris, France
(catalogue)
June 1997 Vancouver International Art 97 Exhibition
Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia
November A.P.E.C.
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 1998 Sculpture from the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October – November 1999 Oviloo Tunnillie: Facing Dorset
Exhibition by John Reeves (Photographer)
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
June – July 2000 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Exhibition title: Art in Stone
Canadian Arctic Gallery (Grunder)
Hammerstrasse 50, Basel, Switzerland
(illustrated catalogue)
June – September 2000 Arctic Spirit – Canadian Inuit Sculpture
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
November – December 2000 Small Sculptures by Great Artists 2000
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
February 2001 Living Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
April Art by Women:
An Investigation of Inuit Sculpture and Graphics
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
September 2002 – May 2003 Terra Cognita: The Land We Know
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
November 2002 Core Inuit
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 2003 Stone Carvings from Oviloo Tunnillie and Her Family
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Spring 2005 Cape Dorset Sculpture
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
September – November 2005 Selections from the Lowell Schoenfeld
And Josephine Mitchell Collection of Inuit Sculpture
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
July – September 2006 Out of the Ordinary: Cape Dorset Sculpture
Gallery Indigena
Stratford, Ontario
December 2006 – January 2007 Small Sculpture by Great Artists
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
Oct – Nov, 2008 Shaman, Sedna and Spirits
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
January – February, 2009 Small Treasures
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
September – October, 2009 Women of the North:
Seen in Sculptures and Prints
Arctic Artistry
Chappagua, New York
September – October, 2009 Power and Passion
Canadian Arctic Gallery
Basel, Switzerland
September – November, 2009 Sanattiaqsimajut
Inuit Art from the Carleton U. Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
October – November, 2009 Mini Masterworks 3
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October, 2009 – January, 2010 Nunannguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
June – July, 2010 North Meets South
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
October, 2010 Arctic Wind III: An Expression of Survival
Coastal Peoples Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated brochure)
April, 2011 Tunnillie Family
Kulik Inuit Art
Quebec City, Quebec
April, 2011 Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(Illustrated catalogue)
October, 2011 Stone and Paper
Cape Dorset 2011
Native Art Gallery
Oakville, ON
(illustrated catalogue)
March – April, 2012 Mini Masterworks IV
Spirit Wrestler Gallery
Vancouver, BC
(illustrated Catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
June 1981 Oviloo Tunnillie
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
September – October 1992 Oviloo Tunnillie
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
May – June 1993 An Inuit Woman Challenges Tradition: Sculpture by Oviloo Tunnillie
Burdick Gallery
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
June – July 1994 Oviloo Tunnillie
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
June – July 1995 Oviloo Tunnillie
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
August 1996 Oviloo
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November OVILOO TUNNILLIE
Inuit Galerie
Mannheim, Germany
April 1999 Ovilloo Tunnillie Poster commemorating Nunavut, April 1, 1999
Marion Scott Gallery
481 Howe Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October – November, 2008 Oviloo Tunnillie
Meditations on Womanhood
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
COLLECTIONS:
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Soviet Union
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS:
1992 Ovilu was invited to attend the opening of the “Women in the North” Exhibition at the Marion Scott Gallery on June 6th.
1992 Attended a three-week carving workshop organized by the Inuit Artists’ College at the Ottawa School of Art in August.
1993 Oviloo was featured in the video, “Keeping Our Stories Alive: The Sculpture of Canada’s Inuit”, produced by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
1994 Ovilu’s sculpture, “Spirited Sedna” was on the cover of the Winter issue of the Inuit Art Quarterly.
1994 Attended the October opening of “Isumavut” at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
Berlo, Janet Catherine
AN EXHIBITION, A BOOK AND AN EXAGGERATED REACTION: A review essay by Janet Catherine Berlo. Inuit Art Quarterly: 10(1), Spring 1995, Pp. 26 – 36.
Blodgett, Jean
CHRISTIANITY AND INUIT ART. The Beaver, Autumn 1984. Pp. 16 – 25.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: THE SCULPTURE OF CANADA’S INUIT.
Produced by the Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1993.
Canadian Arctic Producers
CAPE DORSET: Recent Sculpture. Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Arctic Producers Cooperative Limited, 1979.
Kardosh, Robert
Transcending the Particular: Feminist Vision in the Sculpture of Oviloo Tunnillie,
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol 24, no 3/ Fall 2009
Hessel, Ingo
ARCTIC SPIRIT: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, Heard Museum/Douglas & McIntyre, 2006.
Innuit Galley of Eskimo Art
MONUMENTS IN STONE: Recent Sculpture from Cape Dorset. Toronto, Ont.: The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1988.
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, N.M., U.S.A.: Institute of American Native Arts Museum, 1995.
Inuit Galerie
DIE KUNST DER ARKTIS. Mannheim, Germany: Inuit Galerie, 1988.
Inuit Galerie
OVILOO TUNNILLIE [SIC]. Mannheim, Germany: Inuit Galerie, 1988.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
CAPE DORSET SCULPTURE: Fantasy & Stylization. Vancouver, B.C.: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1983.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
CAPE DORSET STONE SCULPTURE: MASTERS AND THE NEXT GENERATION: August 17 – September 6, 1991. Vancouver, B.C.: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1991.
Leroux, Odette et alia
INUIT WOMEN ARTISTS: VOICES FROM CAPE DORSET: Edited by Odette Leroux, Marion E. Jackson and Minnie Aoudla Freeman. Hull, Que.: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994.
Lipton, Barbara
ARCTIC VISION: Art of the Canadian Inuit. Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984.
Marion Scott Gallery
ARCTIC ICE: SCULPURES IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. Vancouver, B.C.: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992.
Marion Scott Gallery
SCULPTURE BY CELEBRATED INUIT ARTIST, OVILOO TUNNILLIE: June 11 – July 9, 1994. Vancouver, B.C.: Marion Scott Gallery, 1994.
Marion Scott Gallery
WOMEN OF THE NORTH: AN EXHIBITION OF ART BY INUIT WOMEN OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC: June 6 – July 11, 1992. Vancouver, B.C.: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992.
Millard, Peter
MEDITATIONS ON WOMANHOOD: OVILU TUNNILLIE: A review essay by Peter Millard. Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol.9, No. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 20 – 25.
Millard, Peter
THE ARTISTS SPEAK. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 16 – 21.
Millard, Peter
WOMEN OF THE NORTH: An exhibition of art by Inuit women of the Canadian Arctic. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 36 – 39.
Mitchell, Marybelle
THE ARTISTS SPEAK: ABOUT LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER; ABOUT PLEASING BUYERS; ABOUT PERSONAL POWER. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall/Winter 1992, pp. 39 – 44.
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Rev. and updated edition of Sculpture of the Eskimo. Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
Wight, Darlene
BUILDING ON STRENGTHS: New Inuit Art from the Collection. Tableau, Vol. 1, No. 5, 1988, p. 4.
Wight, Darlene
WINNIPEG COLLECTS: Inuit Art from Private Collections. Winnipeg, Man.: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
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