Born: 1906 Female
Place of Birth: Back River area
Died: 1985
Resided: Baker Lake
Drawings, Prints, Wallhangings

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1960, 1961 Cape Dorset Graphics (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue

1967 January - February: Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo Prints & Recent Sculpture, National Gallery of Canada, in cooperation with the Canadia, Eskimo Art Committee, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985 Baker Lake Print Collection (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1970 May - June: Oonark/Pangnark, National Arts Centre, curated by the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue

1970 May - 1972 January: Two Artists of the Northwest Territories, National Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1970 September - October: Canadian Eskimo Arts Festival, Alaska Methodist University Galleries, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1971 March: Eskimo Art in Poetry and Pictures, Junior Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, circulated by the Government of Canada and the National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, New York, U.S.A.

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)

1972 May - September 1972 Baker Lake Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1973: Three Artists from Baker Lake, Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Ontario(illustrated catalogue)

1973 - 1974 Baker Lake Prints and Drawings: 1970-1973, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Extension Services, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (catalogue

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

1974 March - April: Eskimo Wallhangings, McIntosh Gallery,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (brochure)

1974 October: Kathleen Fenwick Memorial Exhibition, Gallery Pascal, Stratford, Ontario

1974 October - November: Eskimo Art, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue

1975 - 1979: We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1975 October - 1977 December: Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated brochure)

1975 December: The Art of Eskimo Women: in Sculpture, Prints, Wall-hangings, The Arctic Circle Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1976: Baker Lake Drawings, Lippel Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

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

1976 May - August: Art Collection D'Art, Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1976 June - August: The People Within - Art from Baker Lake, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue

1976 July: Baker Lake Festival: Sculpture, Drawings, and Wallhangings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated catalogue

1976 July - August: Bicentennial Tribute, an Exhibition of North American Native Art, Gallery Pascal, Toronto, Ontario

1976 July - August: A Tribute to Baker Lake, Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario

1977: Kayaks and Umiaks, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 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 May: Kenojuak/Oonark: Prints - Wallhangings - Sculpture, Inukshuk Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario

1977 September - October: The Eskimo Woman: her life and dreams in prints and sculpture, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1978: Looking South, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

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

1978 August: Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (illustrated catalogue)

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

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

1978 December - 1979 January: Baker Lake Drawings, Gallimaufrey, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

1979 January - June: Spirits and Dreams - Arts of the Inuit of Baker Lake, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated brochure)

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 May - August: 21 X 12 (Eskimo Drawing Exhibition), Inuk 1 Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

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 - 81 July: Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981, Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (tour

1979 August - 1981 September: Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (catalogue)

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

1980 March - April: A Culture on Paper: Baker Lake Drawings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1980 April - May: The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit, Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (illustrated catalogue

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, Musée 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

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

1981 April - May Festival of Birds, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1981 April - 1982 March: Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

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

1981 July - August: Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture / Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy (illustrated catalogue

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 Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit of the same name), Vancouver, British Columbia(illustrated catalogue)

1981 October - 1983 February: The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit, Print Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1982 March: Canada Mikrokosma - An Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Tapestries by Twenty-two Canadian Artists, Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences, London, organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre Kingston, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1982 September: Break-up and Freeze-up, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (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 Château 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 February - April: Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings: 1970-1976, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (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 September - October: Inuit Survival, Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario, Presented at the University of Waterloo, Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario

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

1983 November - 1985 March: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations, New York, New York, U.S.A. (tour) (illustrated brochure

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

1984 April: Games of the Inuit, Northern Images, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

1984 June: A Retrospective View, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1984 June: Demons and Spirits and those who wrestled with them, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1984 June - August: Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

1984 September: Drawings from Baker Lake, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure

1984 September - October: On the Land, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1984 November - December: Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, held at Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute, University of Siegen at Villa Waldrich, Siegen, Germany (illustrated catalogue

1984 November - December: 50 Inuit Prints, Canadian Arctic Producers in coordination with the Hudson's Bay Company Inuit Art Marketing Service, held at Simpson's, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

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

1985: Inuit Art, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Extension Services; Public Schools, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario (tour)

1985 June: Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints, Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta (tour)

1985 June: Baker Lake Prints 1985, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1985 June: - 1987 September: Chisel and Brush/Le ciseau et la brosse, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario (tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

1985 July - September: Multiple Perspectives from Baker Lake, University of Michigan, Alumni Centre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

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

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

1986 July - September: Contemporary Inuit Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated brochure

1986 November: Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic Arctic Artistry, Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1987 January - February: The Matriarchs: Jessie Oonark, Helen Kalvak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Snow Goose Associates, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1987 February - June: The Lindsay and Swartz Collections,:New Acquisitions, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1987 May - June: Inuit Graphics from the Past, Arctic Artistry, Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1987 August - September: I Am Always Thinking About the Animals, Houston North Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (illustrated brochure)

1987 November: Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry, Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

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

1988 March - 1988 April: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1988 June - September: The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta

1988 November - December: Inuit Women and their Art: Graphics and Wallhangings, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. (illustrated brochure)

1988 - 89 December: 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: Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art from the Northwest Territories, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

1989 August - September: Baker Lake Prints: 1970 - 1982, Retrospective, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1989 August - October: Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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

1990: Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

199o 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 - September: Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

1990 October - November: A Woman's Vision, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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 May - June: Shamans and Spirits: Origins of the Healing, Hearts
Orca Aart, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

1991 June - November: Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

1991 November - 1992 March: Moving Around the Form: Inuit Sculpture and Prints, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

1992 March - April: Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery Collection, McMaster Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

1992 June - 1993 December: Oonark, Pudlo, Kananginak, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated brochure)

1992 August: Each Depends on the Other, Houston North Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (illustrated brochure)

1993 - 1993: Arts from the Arctic, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1993 November - December: Women Who Draw: 30 Years of Graphic, Art from the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario

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

1994 March: Patiently I Sing, Selections from the Tyler/Brooks Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1994 March - August: Kunst aus der Arktis, Völkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (illustrated catalogue)

1994 May - June: Share the Vision, Philadelphians Collect Inuit Art, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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

1970 June: Oonark Drawings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1971: Oonark Drawings, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1971: Oonark Wallhangings, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

1971 April: Oonark Wallhangings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1973: Oonark Drawings, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec

1974 March: Drawings by Oonark, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Montreal, Quebec

1977: Jessie Oonark, R.C.A. - Prints and Drawings, 1970 through 1976, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (brochure)

1978: Jessie Oonark - Wallhangings, Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario

1981 November - December: Jessie Oonark, R.C.A. - Drawings, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1983 September: Drawings by Oonark of Baker Lake c. 1965-1978, The Innuit Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (illustrated brochure)

1983 October - November: Jessie Oonark R.C.A. - Wallhangings and Selected Prints, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1984 January - March 1984 Jessie Oonark - A Retrospective, Raven Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1986 November: Jessie Oonark - R.C.A., O.C. Retrospective, 1970-1985 Prints Drawings and Wallhangings, The Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated brochure)

1986 November - 1988 March: Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1991 March: Jessie Oonark Retrospective, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, Ontario

1993 February - October: Jessie Oonark: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Catholic Conference Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Churchill Community Centre, Churchill, Manitoba
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Collection of His Holiness John Paul II, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Collection of the Supreme Patriarch of All Armenia, His Holiness, Catholicos Vazken I
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Shell Canada Collection, Calgary, Alberta
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1956 Participated in an experimental graphics workshop in Baker Lake (uncatalogued and unpublished)

1969 Large applique wallhanging originally presented to the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly, now a permanent feature of the Assembly's Chamber in Yellowknife.

1971 Received a travel grant from the Canadian Council

1972 Illustrated "I Breathed A New Song", an anthology of Inuit Poetry edited by Richard Lewis.

1973 Commissioned to make a wallhanging for the lobby of the National Art Centre. Ottawa; Oonark present for the unveiling.

1973 A wallhanging made by Oonark was presented to H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth on behalf of the Inuit of the Northwest Territories.

1974 Received the award for the best in the show for her embroidery and appliqued wallhanging in the exhibition " Crafts from Arctic Canada".

1975 Elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

1976 In Ottawa to attend the presentation of the Sunday Missal of the Roman Catholic Church which contains an illustration by Oonark. Missal published by the Canadian Catholic Council of Bishops.

1976 Created an orginal design for first day cover and cachet print (edition of 1,000) for a United Nations stamp honouring the Habitat conferance in Vancouver; travelled to New York and Autographed covers. Original drawing purchased by National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa

1977 Travelled to Charlottetown, P.E.I. to attend a conferance of the Canadian Crafts Council during which Oonark was made an Honorary member.

1978 Travelled to Toronto to attend the opening of a wallhanging exhibition at the Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art.

1984 Recipient of a Women's Caucus for Art Award in Toronto

1984 Named an Officer of the Order of Canada

1984 Oonark's 1983 print "Giver of Life" was presented to his Holiness John Paul II at an Outdoor Papal Mass in Ottawa.

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.

EIGHT ARTISTS FROM BAKER LAKE EXHIBIT AT ART GALLERY. City
Dweller, Ward-7 Edition (Toronto), July 1976.

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

Arngna'naaq, Ruby
PRINTMAKER FOLLOWS MOTHER'S STEPS TO FAME. Ottawa Citizen,
March 1985.

Barz, Sandra B.
JESSIE OONARK AT U.N. New York, N.Y. : Arts and Culture of the
North 1(1) : 1, November, 1976.

Berlo, Janet Catherine: THE POWER OF THE PENCIL: Inuit Women in the Graphic Arts. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, Winter, 1990. pp.16-26.

Blodgett, Jean: CHRISTIANITY AND INUIT ART. The Beaver, Autumn, 1984. pp.16-25.

Blodgett, Jean and Marie Bouchard: JESSIE OONARK: A Retrospective. / [By] Jean Blodgett and Marie Bouchard. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986.

Bryers, Joanne Elizabeth (Lochhead): OBSERVATIONS ON BAKER LAKE GRAPHIC ART AND ARTISTS. Arts & Culture of the North, vol. 3, no. 2, February, 1979. pp.151-154.

Bryers, Joanne Elizabeth (Lochhead): THE GRAPHIC ART OF THE BAKER LAKE ESKIMOS FROM JULY 1969 TO JULY 1973. Thesis: Master of Museology, Universty of Toronto. Department of Museology, 1974.

Butler, K.J.: MY UNCLE WENT TO THE MOON: [Transcribed and edited by Kay Bridge.]. artscanada, vol. 30, nos. 5,6, December/January, 1973. pp.154-158.

Butler, Sheila: WALL HANGINGS FROM BAKER LAKE. The Beaver, Autumn, 1972. pp.26-31.

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 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.

Cochran, Bente Roed: ESKIMO DOLLS AND INUIT PRINTS. The Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter, no. 27, June, 1985. p.[1].

Driscoll, Bernadette: TATTOOS, HAIRSTICKS AND ULUS: The Graphic Art of Jessie Oonark. Arts Manitoba, vol.3, no.4, Fall 1984, pp. 12-19.

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

Ferguson, Jeremy: ARCTIC ART AT AGO. Key to Toronto (entertainment guide), July1976.

Gillmore, Alison: UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art. Arts Manitoba, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer, 1985. pp.20-23.

Hassler, Gitta: KUNST AUS DER ARKTIS: GRAPHIKEN DER INUIT IN KANADA. Zurich: Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich, 1994.

Jackson, Marion E.: INUIT PRINTS: Impressions of a Culture in Transition. LSA 9 (1):6-12, Fall (The University of Michigan), 1985.

Larmour, W.T.: SHE SITS AND SINGS. North, vol. 15, no. 6, November-December, 1968. pp.1-7.

Lewis, Richard, ed.: I BREATHE A NEW SONG: Poems of the Eskimo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

Lipton, Barbara: ARCTIC VISION: ART OF THE CANADIAN INUIT. Archaeology, January/February, 1985. pp.54-57.

Mellen, Peter: JESSIE OONARK: Untitled Wall Hanging. In: LANDMARKS OF CANADIAN ART. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1978. pp.76-77.

Muehlen, Maria: BAKER LAKE WALL-HANGINGS: Starting from Scraps. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring, 1989. pp.6-11.

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.

Parkin, Jeanne: THE PEOPLE WITHIN: ART FROM BAKER LAKE = LES GENS DE L'INTERIEUR: L'ART DE BAKER LAKE. Artmagazine, vol. 7, no. 28, Summer/ete, 1976. pp.66-75.

Souchotte, Sandra: JESSIE OONARK: Giver of Life. Up Here: Life in Canada's North, June/July:20-24, 1985.

Van Raalte, Sharon: INUIT WOMEN AND THEIR ART. Communique, May 1975. p.21-23.

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