Born: April, 1937 Male
Resides: Arviat
Sculpture

Jacob Irkok began carving in 1962; he recalls that his first sculpture,
carved in antler, depicted a caribou and wolf fighting. He still carves in
antler, but also in stone. Irkok's wife Eulalie Utuuyak Irkok is also a
carver.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1968: [Inuit Art Exhibition] Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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

1980 April - June: The Abbott Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (catalogue)

1980 May: The Year of the Walrus, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1981 September: The Year of the Bear, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

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

1982 July - September: Eskimo Point/Arviat, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1982 September: Eskimo Point, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

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

1987 September: The Williamson Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1991 April - May: Nagdjuk: Gift of the Caribou, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

1993 November - December: The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Williamson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1993: Jacob Irkok was invited to attend the Keewatin Arts Festival, held in Rankin Inlet in September, 1993.

Canadian Eskimo Arts Council: SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.

Lowndes, Joan: LET'S BEAT A DRUM FOR OUR EXHIBIT: Vancouver Art Gallery Mounts a Superb Show of Eskimo Art-SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT-for display from Moscow to Philadelphia with Canadian cities left out. Vancouver Sun, November 10, 1971.

Marion Scott Gallery: THE TREASURED MONUMENT: An Exhibition of Small-scale Inuit Sculpture. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1993.

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

Winnipeg Art Gallery: ESKIMO POINT/ARVIAT. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982.