Tutuyea Ikkidluak
Settlement: Cape Dorset / Kinngait
(1962-1989) — E7-1479
A rising star among Inuit artists in the 1980s, Tutuyea Ikkidluak’s talent for figuration, eye for detail, and his ambitious, complex compositions promised to make the artist an important name in the Kinngait (Cape Dorset) art scene. However, the tragic untimely death of Ikkidluak in 1989 cut short his career at the age of 27, only two years after his first solo show at The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art in Toronto in 1987.
Exhibitions
- Aggression: Tutuyea Ikidluak, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
- Art Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
- Cape Dorset Sculpture by Ipellee Osuitok, Tutuiya Ikkidluak, Quavaroak Tunnillie, Ashevak Tunnillie, Peter Tunnillie, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
- Images of Influence: Contemporary Inuit Art, Surrey Art Gallery
- Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly
- Opening Exhibition, Nunavut Fine Arts Limited
Collections
- Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
- Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Artwork
| Title | Last Sold At Auction | |
|---|---|---|
| MOTHER AND CHILD WITH CATCH, CA. 1980S | 2025-11 (November 2025) | |
| REARING CARIBOU | 2009-04 (April 2009) |
