Born: 1925 Male
Died: October, 1993
Resided: Sanikiluaq
Sculpture

Samwillie's wife Mina and his son Jimmy are both carvers.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1972: Belcher Island Sculpture, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1973 February - April: The Bessie Bulman Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1973 June: Eskimo Sculpture, Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1976 March - July: The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1978: August - November: The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1979 December: Sculpture from the Belcher Islands, Theo Waddington, Montreal, Quebec

1981 June - August: Belcher Islands/Sanikiluaq, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1984 February - March: Canadian Inuit Art, City Hall, Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland

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

1986 June: New Beginnings: a celebration of Native expression at the first Native Business Summit, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario

1987 May - June: [Inuit Art Exhibition] Whitby Arts Incorporated, The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario

1988 March: Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture, Arctic Inuit Art Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1989 October - December: Baffin Images, Orca Aart, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

1990 September - October: Recent Sculpture from Sanikiluaq, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

1990 November: This Is My World, Presented by Jordan Fine Arts, at the Windmill Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

1993 February 1993 Kunstwerke der Inuit, Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Studies at the Hotel am Badersee, Grainau, Germany

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

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, U.S.A.
Musee de la civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Red Deer and District Museum and Archives, Red Deer, Alberta
The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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.

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

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

Winnipeg Art Gallery: BELCHER ISLANDS/SANIKILUAQ. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery,
1981.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: THE MULDERS' COLLECTION OF ESKIMO SCULPTURE. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1976.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: THE ZAZELENCHUK COLLECTION OF ESKIMO ART. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978.