Born: 1910 Male E9-824
Died: August 3, 1976
Resided: Puvirnituq; also lived in Inukjuak
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1982: Povungnituk Print Collection (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1965 November - December: Arctic Values '65, New Brunswick Museum with the cooperation of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, St. John, New Brunswick (illustrated catalogue)

1966: Esquimaux, Peuple du Quebec, Musée du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec (illustrated catalogue)

1967: The Eskimo Art Collection of theToronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1970: Povungnituk Prints 1960-1970, Tenth Anniversary (illustrated catalogue)

1971: Sculpture in Miniature, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1971 - 1973: Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1971 January - February: The Art of the Eskimo, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (catalogue)

1971 September - October: Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the Collection of York University, Art Gallery of York University Downsview, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1972 January - March: Eskimo Fantastic Art, Gallery 111, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1974: Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l'arctique canadien, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1974: Arctic Quebec Print Collection (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1974: Arctic Quebec Print Collection II (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1974 March - June: Oral Tradition, National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario

1974 June - September: Ulu/Inua: Form and Fantasy in Eskimo Art, Casino Gallery, Ravinia Park, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (catalogue)

1976 October - November: Selections from the Toronto-Dominion, Collection of Eskimo Art, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

1976 November: Hunters of Old, Inukshuk Galleries Inc., Waterloo, Ontario

1977 January - 1982 June: The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1977 December - 1978 February: Povungnituk, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1978 March - June: The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1979 - 1981: By the Light of the Qulliq: Eskimo Life in the Canadian Arctic, Smithsonian Institution, A travelling exhibition of Inuit art from the Feheley Collection, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1979 March - April: Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine, Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/ Dr. Harry Winrob Collection, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1979 March - April: Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative exhibition from the collection of Professor and Mrs. Philip Gray, Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A. (catalogue)

1979 March - May: Eskimo Narrative, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1979 July - 1980 May: Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1979 October: Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterwork, Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1980 January - February: Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1980 July - August: Inuit Graphics from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

1980 August - October: The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1980 September - October: La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1980 September - 1981 February: Things Made by Inuit, La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1981 May - September: Spirits and Shamans/Esprits et chamans, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario

1981 September - October: The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher, Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan (illustrated catalogue)

1981 October - November: The Inuit Sea Goddess, Surrey Art Gallery, (organized to complement the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit of the same name) Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1982 February - August: Les Inuit du Nouveau-Quebec, Musee du Quebec, Quebec, Quebec (illustrated brochure)

1982 March - 1983 January: Inuit Myths, Legends and Songs, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1982 December - 1983 January: Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, presented at Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, Quebec

1983: Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional Life on the Land, Organized by the Arts and Learning
Services Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (tour)

1983 February - March: Return of the Birds, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1983 May - 1985 April: Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1983 June: An Enduring Tradition: Inuit Carving from Arctic Quebec, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1983 September - October: Inuit Survival, Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario, Presented at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario

1983 October - November: The Arctic/L'Artique, UNESCO, Paris, France (illustrated catalogue)

1983 October - December: Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario

1984 February - 1986 June: Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian, Arctic Producers, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1984 March: The Early Years - Fifties and Sixties, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1984 March - June: The Oral Tradition, National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario

1984 April - May: Originale Inuit Tegninger: Selections from the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada, Musikhuset, Arhus, Denmark

1984 November - 1985 February: Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper:, Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

1984 December: Takamit - Canadian Eskimo Art: Selections from Private Collections and the Government of Canada, Organized by La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A. (illustrated brochure)

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)

1985 February - 1986 April: Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, presented by Commerzbank Frankfurt, Germany (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1985 March - May: Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1985 December: Masterwork Sculpture 1985, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 February - March: Drawings and Sculpture by Joe Talirunili and Davidialuk Amittu, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1986 May - June: Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 May - June: The Spirit of the Land, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1986 August: Arctic Quebec Sculpture, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 September - October: Davidee Alasuaq: Artiste Inuit du Nouveau-Quebec, Tuttavik, Mississauga, Ontario

1986 November - December: Small Sculpture from Across the Arctic, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1987 March - July: Winnipeg Collects: Inuit Art from Private Collections, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1987 September - November: The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1987 December - 1989 March: Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1988 - 1990: Stories in Stone: Soapstone Sculptures From Northern Quebec and Kenya, La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1988 April: Eskimo Sculpture and Prints, Hartford National Bank, From the Inuit Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bacon, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.

1988 May - November: Mythmakers: Davidialuk and Talirunili, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1988 December - 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)

1989 January - February: The Early Years: Sculpture from the 50's and 60's, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1989 February - April: Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of Inuit Art, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Banff, Alberta (tour) (illustrated brochure)

1990 January - September: Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

1990 February - March: Inuit Drawings, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1990 June - 1992 July: The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1990 November - 1991 February: Espaces Inuit, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, Quebec (illustrated catalogue)

1991 January: Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1991 February - June: Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (first exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, British Columbia

1991 November: Early Masterpieces of Inuit Sculpture, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario

1992 February: Prints from Povungnituk 1962-1988, Albers Gallery of Inuit Art, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

1992 December - 1993 May: Inuit Art: Tradition and Regeneration, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

1993 April - July: Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation, Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1993 November: Le Quebec, 30 ans de presence en milieu nordique, Complex H (a provincial government building) Quebec City, Quebec

1993 November: - January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1993 November - 1994 March: The Inuit Imagination, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1994 July: Arctic Spirit - 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1976 September: Sculpture by Davidialuk, Fleet Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1977 December: Davidialuk Memorial Exhibition, The Guild Shop, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1978 March: A Memorial Show of Prints by Davidialuk, Snow Goose Associates, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1979 November: La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Davidialuk Alasuaq, Musée du Quebec, Quebec, Quebec

1983 - 1984: Daviadialuk Alasuaq: Inuit Artist of Northern Quebec, Ministere des affaires culturelles du
Quebec, Quebec, Quebec (tour) (illustrated brochure)

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Avataq Cultural Institute, Montreal, Quebec
CIBC Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba
Fitzgerald Collection, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
James and Mary Jack Collection, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa., U.S.A.
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Musee de la civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Musee du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Saputik Museum, Povungnituk, Quebec
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
York University, Toronto, Ontario

1965: Travelled to Montreal to demonstrate carving at the Inuit sculpture exhibition held at Henry Birks & Sons, Montreal.

1972: Travelled to Copenhagen to attend the opening of Sculpture/Inuit exhibition at the National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1974: Awarded "Best in Show" for a batik in the exhibit "Crafts from Arctic Canada" organized by the Candian Eskimo Arts Council.

1983: Article written by Stephen Gujon Williams, "In the Middle: The Inuit Today" dedicated in the memory of Davidialuk.

ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.

UNE EXPOSITION D'ART GRAPHIQUE INUIT AU MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS. Le Devoir, July 29, 1980.

Barz, Sandra B.:DAVIDIALUK'S UNIQUE TALENTS ARE VIEWED ON "HOME" GROUND. New York, N.Y. : Arts and Culture of the North 7(1) : 447, 1984.

Bilan, Robert: MYTHMAKERS: Davidialuk and Talirunili. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer, 1988. pp.17-18.

Blakeman, Evelyn: STONES, BONES, CLOTH AND PAPER: INUIT ART IN EDMONTON COLLECTIONS. Edmonton, Alta. : Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter December 1-3, 1984.

Brandson, Lorraine E.: CARVED FROM THE LAND: The Eskimo Museum Collection. Churchill, Man.: Diocese of Churchill Hudson Bay, 1994.

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.

Craig, M.M.: DAVIDIALUK, ALASUA AMITTUQ: IN The Canadian Encyclopedia, James H. Marsh, editor-in-chief. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1:472, 1985.

Eisemon, Thomas Owen: STORIES IN STONE = LA PIERRE RACONTE: Soapstone Sculptures from Northern Quebec and Kenya = Sculptures de steatite du Nouveau-Quebec et du Kenya. Ottawa: La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec and The Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.

Gautsche, Nancy: INUIT ART: TRADITION AND REGENERATION: At the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, December 17 to May 2 1993. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No.2, 1993, pp.28-31.

Graburn, Nelson H.H.: NALUNAIKUTANGA: Signs and Symbols in Canadian Inuit Art and Culture. Polarforschung, vol. 46, no. 1, 1976. pp.1-11.

Gunn, Barry: TWO INUIT ARTISTS IN COPENHAGEN. Inuttituut, Autumn:36-40, 1972.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: ARCTIC QUEBEC SCULPTURE. Vancouver, B.C. : Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1986.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Masterwork Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.

Kritzwiser, Kay: EVERYTHING FROM MERMAID TALES TO 'COPTERS INSPIRES INUIT ARTISTS. Globe and Mail, February 9, 1988. p.A1.

Mitchell, Marybelle, ed.: DAVIDIALUK. Montreal: La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec, 1977.

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.

Nungak, Zebedee: ESKIMO STORIES FROM POVUNGNITUK, QUEBEC = UNIKKATUATUAT SANAUGARNGNIK ATYINGUALIIT PUVIRNGNITURNGMIT: Illustrated in Soapstone Carvings. / By Zebedee Nungak and Eugene Arima. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. Bulletin No. 235, Anthropological Series No. 90, 1969.

Purdie, James: AN OLD MAN REINCARNATED?. Globe and Mail, December 10, 1977.

Purdie, James: THE POWER OF CONCENTRATED ENERGIES. Globe and Mail, June 17,
1978.

Saladin d'Anglure, Bernard, et al.: LA PAROLE CHANGEE EN PIERRE: Vie et oeuvre de Davidialuk Alasuaq, artiste inuit du Quebec arctique. 11, les cahiers du patrimoine. Quebec: Gouvernement du Quebec. Ministere des Affaires culturelles, 1978.

Saucier, Celine: IMAGE INUIT DU NOUVEAU-QUEBEC: By Celine Saucier and Eugene Kedl. Quebec: Musee de la Civilisation, 1988.

Seidelman, Harold: DAVIDIALUK'S WORK: A Living History. Arts & Culture of the North, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall, 1980. pp.279-281.

Seidelman, Harold and James Turner: THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.

Swinton, George: ESKIMO SCULPTURE. = SCULPTURE ESQUIMAUDE. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

Swinton, George: SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.

Webb, Marshall: THE TORONTO DOMINION GALLERY OF INUIT ART. Toronto, Ont. :
Inuit Art Quarterly 1(2):8-9, 1986.

Wight, Darlene: IDENTIFYING INUIT CARVINGS. North/Nord, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 1982. pp.32-35.

Wight, Darlene: MYTHMAKERS: Davidialuk and Talirunili. Tableau, vol. 1, no.5, 1988. p.4.