Joel Maniapik

Biography

Joel Maniapik is an artist and printmaker from Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), NU. Maniapik cites his father, local artists and comic books as influences that led him to his own artistic practice.

Maniapik started drawing with pencil before moving onto coloured pencil and watercolours. He has taken woodblock printing, watercolour painting, pastel and oil work workshops offered to grow his practice. Maniapik's work has also been transformed into tapestries [1] His work is featured in the 2018 Pangnirtung Print Collection. Maniapik has also appeared multiple times in the Inuit Art Quarterly.

Artist Work

About Joel Maniapik

Medium:

Graphic Arts, Painting

Artistic Community:

Panniqtuuq, Nunavut, Inuit Nunangat

Date of Birth:

Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.

15 March 1960