Born: 1928
Resides: Baker Lake; also lived in Back River
Drawings, Prints, Crafts, Sculpture, Jewellery


Joshua is the eldest son of Baker Lake artist Jessie Oonark. His wife, Ruth Qaulluaryuk, produces graphic work, prints, and wallhangings; their son, Armand Kannayuk, is a sculptor in Baker Lake.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1964 November - December: Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin, N.W.T., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1967: Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, presented at the Manitoba Legislative, Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1971: Baker Lake Print Collection, (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1976 - 1982: Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical, Symbolism in Eskimo Art, Canadian Arctic Producers and the National Museum of Man Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1978 November - December: Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (illustrated catalogue)

1979 August - November: Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery,Winnipeg, Manitoba


1979 November - 1984 October: Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, Arts and Learning Services Foundation (this is a duplicate of the C.A.P. and National Museum of Man exhibition of 1976-1981) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (tour)

1980 November: Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1981 June: Transformation, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (illustrated brochure)

1986 October - 1987 February: Oonark's Family, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

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

1988 June - September: Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1988 November - December: Art of the Eskimo: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawings from the Canadian Arctic, Gallery 100 Hudson, New York, New York, U.S.A.

1989 June - July: Baker Lake Sculpture, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1989 October: Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1992 October - 1993 January: Drawings and Sculpture from Baker Lake, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

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

1993 September - November: The Bear: Sculpture, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

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

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

1994 April - May: Mythic Image, Ancestral Spirits Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.A.

Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1993 Awarded second prize in the Keewatin Arts and Crafts Festival sculpture
competition.

Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs: TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS WITH JESSIE OONARK AND HER CHILDREN: Interviews conducted by Marion E. Jackson with interpretation by William Noah. Unpublished manuscript of background material for a project sponsored by the Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1984.

Canadian Arctic Producers: SHAMANS AND SPIRITS = CHAMANS ET ESPRITS: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art = Les mythes et le symbolisme medical dans l'art esquimau. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers and the National Museum of Man, c1979.

Driscoll, Bernadette: THE INUIT COLLECTION OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY. Canadian Antiques & Art Review, vol. 2, no. 17, April, 1981. pp.36-41.

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

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

Swinton, George: MULTIPLE REALITIES: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation. Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter, 1993, pp. 43-47.

Upstairs Gallery: BAKER LAKE SCULPTURE. Winnipeg: The Upstairs Gallery 1989.

Wight, Darlene:BUILDING ON STRENGTHS: New Inuit Art from the Collection. Tableau, vol. 1, no.5, 1988. p.4.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: ESKIMO CARVERS OF KEEWATIN N.W.T. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery with the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1964.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.