Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, ᐃᕆᓐ ᐊᕙᓚᑭᐊ
Settlement: Baker Lake / Qamani’tuaq
(1941) — E2-423
Alternative Names: Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Tiktaalaaq Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Ahvalakiak Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Avalakiak Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Ahvalaquaq Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Avaalakiak , Ahvalaqlaq , Avaalaqiaq , Avalekiak , I Tiktaalaaq , Tiktaalaq
Exhibitions
50 Inuit Prints
Canadian Arctic Producers in coordination with the Hudson's Bay Company Inuit Art Marketing Service, held at Simpson's
A Woman's Vision
Art Space Gallery
Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Arctic Mystery, Harmony and Transformation Baker Lake Textile Art
Art Gallery of the Canadian Embassy organized by Arctic Inuit Art
Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Maite Aubert
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Montador
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Ombre et Lumiere
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie La Tour des Cardinaux
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Humbert
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at La Halle aux Bles
Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Theatre
Art Inuit, l'Art des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Maison Falleur, Cambrai
Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de la Wallonie, Liege
Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Centre d'Action Culturelle du Bassin Houllier, Lorrain, Saint Avold
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Centre Culturel Canadien
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
Baker Lake - Drawings, Sculpture, Tapestries
Theo Waddington
Baker Lake - Uncatalogued Prints 1979-1985 A retrospective collection exhibited at selected galleries, organized by
Canadian Arctic Producers
Baker Lake Arts - Prints, Sculpture, Wallhangings
Playhouse Gallery
Baker Lake Print Collection *75
(annual collection)
Baker Lake Print Collection *76
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Baker Lake Print Collection *78
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Baker Lake Print Collection *79
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Baker Lake Print Collection *80
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Baker Lake Print Collection *81
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Baker Lake Print Collection *82
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Baker Lake Print Collection *83/84
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Baker Lake Print Collection *85
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Baker Lake Print Collection *86
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Baker Lake Print Collection *88
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Baker Lake Print Collection *90
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *75
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *79
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *81
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *82
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *83/4
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *85
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *86
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Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker) *87
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Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary
The Upstairs Gallery
Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings: 1970-1976
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective
The Upstairs Gallery
Baker Lake Prints: 1970 - 1982 Retrospective
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Baker Lake Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Baker Lake Wallhangings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Baker Lake Wallhangings
Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Baker Lake Wallhangings 1976
The Guild Shop
Baker Lake Wallhangings 1978
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Baker Lake Wallhangings 1978
Gallery One
Baker Lake Wallhangings 1979
The Arctic Circle
Beeldhouwkunst van de Inuit (Canada)
by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, France at Amphora Finippon pvba, Sint Andries, Brugge, Belgium
Borealis: Inuit Images of Man and Animals
Freeport Art Museum and Cultural Centre
Collecting Inuit Art - Shifting Perceptions
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l'arctique canadien
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Eskimo Wallhangings
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario
Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
Art Gallery of Ontario
Heritage of the Inuit: Masterpieces of the Eskimo
Colorado Galleries of the Arts, Arapahoe Community College
Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional Life on the Land
Organized by the Arts and Learning Services Foundation
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
Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
In Celebration
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic
Bayly Art Museum University of Virginia
Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Inuit Drawings
Albers Gallery
Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inuit Masks
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musee des Beaux-arts d'Arras
Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981
Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd.
Keewatin Wallhangings 1982
Windsong Galleries
Kunst aus der Arktis
Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich
Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum Huis Hellemans
Moving Around the Form: Inuit Sculpture and Prints
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University
Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic
Baltimore Museum of Art
Nouveau Territoires... 350/500 Ans Apres, Presented at les maisons de la culture Cote-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame- de-Grace, and Rosemont-Petite Patrie
Montreal Recreation and Community Development Service and les Ateliers Visions Planetaire
Patiently I Sing Selections from the Tyler/Brooks Collection
Carleton University Art Gallery
Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Qiviuq: A Legend in Art
Carleton University Art Gallery
Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
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
Spirits and Dreams - Arts of the Inuit of Baker Lake
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Stones and Bones of Baffin Island
The Arctic Circle
The Arctic/L'Artique
UNESCO
The Great Northern Arts Festival
held in Inuvik
The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
The Lindsay and Swartz Collections: New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Spirit World - 1977 to 1990: Baker Lake Clyde River and Pangnirtung Prints. A retrospective collection exhibited at selected commercial galleries, organized by
Canadian Arctic Producers
The Theme of Transformation in Inuit Sculpture
The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Transformation
The Arctic Circle
Wallhangings
Theo Waddington
Wallhangings by Irene Avaalaaqiaq
Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
Wallhangings: Embroidered and Appliqued: by Ahvalakiak of Baker Lake
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic
Marion Scott Gallery
Women Who Draw: 30 Years of Graphic Art from the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Les Martres-de-Veyre
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Palais de l'Europe, le Touquet
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at St. Marcellin
[L'art inuit]
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet
Public Collections
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Kingston
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection
Ada
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull
CIBC Collection
Toronto
Confederation Centre of the Arts
Charlottetown
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City
John and Mary Robertson Collection, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Kitchener
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph
McMaster University Art Gallery
Hamilton
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg
Mendel Art Gallery
Saskatoon
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Vancouver
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife
University of Alberta
Edmonton
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg
Publications
MOVING TOWARDS AN INUIT MUSEUM.
Author: Brummel, Janett
Publication: (1986)
SCULPTURES FROM GJOA HAVEN.
Author: Pope, Anne
Publication: Edmonton, Alta. : INUIT ART ENTHUSIASTS NEWSLETTER(28)14, September. (1985)
TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH LUCASSIE TOOKALAK.
Interviewed by Marybelle Myers, translation by Ali Tulugak on May 1, 1985 in Povungnituk, Arctic Quebec.
Author: CEAC [Canadian Eskimo Arts Council]
Publication: Ottawa : Canadian Eskimo Arts Council in collaboration with the Inuit Art Section, INAC, and the National Film Board of Canada. (1985)
TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA WATT.
Interviewed by Peter Millard on May 21, 1985 in Montreal.
Author: CEAC [Canadian Eskimo Arts Council]
Publication: Ottawa : Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (1985)
MY STORY.
Author: Ipellie, Alootook
Publication: NORTH/NORD 30(1):54-58, SPRING (1983)
ESKIMO POINT TAPESTRIES.
Author: Barron, Eunice
Publication: Edmonton, Alta. : INUIT ART ENTHUSIASTS NEWSLETTER (1983)
GEORGE ARLUK.
Author: Inuit Galerie
Publication: Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany : Inuit Galerie. (1981)
THE ESKIMO MUSEUM.
Author: Condell, Yvonne C.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : ARTS AND CULTURE OF THE NORTH 1(3) : 32, May. (1977)
A COLLECTOR'S POINT OF VIEW.
Author: Harris, James
Publication: New York, N.Y. : ARTS AND CULTURE OF THE NORTH 1(1):2, November. (1976)
HANDBOOK OF ESKIMO ARTIFACTS.
Author: Crassweller, Ken
Publication: Ottawa : Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (1972)
CAPE DORSET PRINTS = ESTAMPES.
Author: West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Publication: Cape Dorset: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (1972)
Artwork
| Title | Last Sold At Auction | |
|---|---|---|
| ALL DIFFERENT THOUGHTS | 2021-03 (March 2021) | |
| BECOMING HUMAN | 2021-05 (May 2021) | |
| BIRD FACING SHADOWS | 2011-11 (November 2011) | |
| BIRD SHAMAN TRANSFORMATIONS | 2015-11 (November 2015) | |
| BIRD/WOMAN | 2009-10 (October 2009) | |
| BIRDS WERE FRIGHTENED BY THE EYES IN THE POTATOES | 2016-09 (September 2016) | |
| CRAWLING SHAMAN | 2009-04 (April 2009) | |
| DANCERS WITH SHADOWS | 2008-04 (April 2008) | |
| HALF FISH HALF HUMAN | 2012-05 (May 2012) | |
| HALF FISH, HALF HUMAN | 2019-11 (November 2019) | |
| HAPPY SPIRIT FACES | 2016-04 (April 2016) | |
| HAPPY THAT THE BIRDS ARE BACK | 2019-11 (November 2019) | |
| HE WISHES HE HAD WINGS | 2019-09 (September 2019) | |
| MANY SHAMANS | 2015-11 (November 2015) | |
| SEA BIRTH | 2019-11 (November 2019) | |
| SEASPIRITS | 2011-11 (November 2011) | |
| SEDNAS AND ANIMALS | 2016-04 (April 2016) | |
| SHADOWS OF THE WOLF | 2010-09 (September 2010) | |
| SHAMANS | 2007-11 (November 2007) | |
| SHAMANS AND ANIMALS | 2007-04 (April 2007) | |
| SPIRIT CLOUD AND DANCERS | 2008-11 (November 2008) | |
| SPIRITS | 2020-11 (November 2020) | |
| THE BIG HEAD WITH HORNS | 2012-09 (September 2012) | |
| THE SHAMAN CALLS HIS FRIENDS | 2019-11 (November 2019) | |
| THINKING OF BEING A BIRD | 2018-03 (March 2018) | |
| THREE HAPPY MEN | 2021-10 (October 2021) | |
| TRANSFORMATION | 2009-11 (November 2009) | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS | 2018-01 (January 2018) | |
| UNTITLED | 2009-04 (April 2009) | |
| UNTITLED | 2010-02 (February 2010) | |
| UNTITLED | 2008-11 (November 2008) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2012-11 (November 2012) | |
| UNTITLED | 2008-11 (November 2008) | |
| UNTITLED | 2018-05 (May 2018) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2009-04 (April 2009) | |
| UNTITLED | 2012-11 (November 2012) | |
| UNTITLED | 2021-02 (February 2021) | |
| UNTITLED | 2019-11 (November 2019) | |
| UNTITLED | 2010-04 (April 2010) | |
| UNTITLED | 2010-02 (February 2010) | |
| UNTITLED (BIRD SHAMAN WITH SURROUNDING SPIRITS) | 2015-06 (June 2015) | |
| UNTITLED (COMPOSITION WITH HANDS AND HEADS) | 2021-10 (October 2021) | |
| UNTITLED (SEA CREATURES) | 2011-03 (March 2011) | |
| UNTITLED (SHAMAN TRANSFORMATION WITH SURROUNDING SPIRITS) | 2015-07 (July 2015) | |
| UNTITLED (SPIRITS) | 2019-04 (April 2019) |
