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Born in Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) in 1967 to Napachie and Timila Pitsiulak, he is the nephew of artist Kenojuak Ashevak. Tim lived in Cape Dorset for several years and enjoyed working in the lithography studio with visiting arts advisor, Bill Ritchie. The land and its wildlife were initially the primary influences on Tim’s realist drawing style. Tim was a hunter and his respect for the natural world and its wildlife is fundamental to his artistic sensibility. Tim was particularly inspired by the whales that frequent the cold, Arctic waters — the beluga and the bowhead — because, as he said, nobody really knows much about them. In 2013 the Royal Canadian Mint featured a Pitsiulak drawing of two beluga whales and a bowhead whale on the Canada's 25-cent coin. His work combined traditional motifs with contemporary techniques. His work is in the collections of institutions such as Feheley Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Inuit Gallery in Vancouver, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, and the Rockbund Art Museum. Sadly he passed away from pneumonia in December of 2016.