About

I’m an Inuit artist and designer from Postville, Nunatsiavut, a small community on the north coast of Labrador, and I’m now based in Ottawa. I work across painting and drawing, murals, sculpture, coin and medal design, 3D and game design, animation and motion design, and websites and online learning.

I started drawing at thirteen and moved into oil painting from there. Most of my paintings are realistic and come from my family and from life in Labrador. Over the past few years my work has widened into sculpture and mixed media designed in software and then fabricated, as well as photography, writing, and games.

I left home at eighteen for art school, but a medical issue cut that short. I spent the next five years working on the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project. That project changed the land and water, and some of my work comes from that experience.

My commissions include The Journey for the Nunatsiavut Government, coin designs for the Royal Canadian Mint, the Nunatsiavut pin for the St. John’s 2025 Canada Games, a commemorative mural for the Aboriginal Women’s Association of Prince Edward Island, and a painting for the Arctic Inspiration Prize. My work has been shown at WAG-Qaumajuq in Winnipeg and at the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone in Montreal. In 2024 I built the sculpture No Part Wasted from my lifelong painting easel and the palettes from every painting I had made.

Alongside the art, I have worked in digital media and education. I have written about video games and Inuit storytelling for the Inuit Art Quarterly, taught game-design and 3D workshops with Indigenous youth from Kahnawà:ke to Utsjoki, and worked as CTO and technical lead at Elumai. I now also take on animation, web design, and consulting. In time, I hope to bring what I have learned back to Nunatsiavut and help start community programs back home.

If you would like to talk about a project, the commissions page is the best place to start, or you can email me at bronson@bronsonjacque.com.

Record

2014Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project — general labourer; foreman of site services from 2018.

2019Personal trainer, GoodLife Fitness, Halifax.

2020Contributing Editor, Inuit Art Quarterly — artist interviews and profile writing, essays and article authoring.

2020Arts Leadership Trainee, Inuit Futures. Began a BFA at NSCAD University, Halifax.

2020Featured in CBC’s Drawn To series — “painting brings this N.L. artist closer to home.”

2020Concept-development artist for a permanent Arctic exhibition — TELUS World of Science Edmonton, with La Boîte Rouge VIF.

2021The Warm Up Shack — INUA, the inaugural exhibition at WAG: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg.

2021MMIWG mural, St. John’s — recognized with a Ministerial Statement in the House of Assembly. Mural exhibited at Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown.

2022Game-dev workshops with Indigenous youth — Kahnawà:ke Survival School, Sami Game Jam (Utsjoki), STEAMPunks at Concordia — with OBX Labs.

2022Closing panel, Arctic Arts Summit — Emerging Perspectives: Paths Forward in the Arctic. Art Battle Atlantic Canada Championship.

2023Artist Support Officer, Inuit Art Foundation. Ulnooweg Summer Solstice Run medals — 2k, 5k, and 10k designs.

2024No Part Wasted — Récits de la création du monde: surnaturel, Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone, Montreal.

2024Project Manager, CTO & Technical Lead, Elumai. Program Coordinator, Small Economy Works.

2025The Journey unveiled at Confederation Building, St. John’s — commissioned through the Nunatsiavut Government.

2025From Their Hands to Ours — presented to Arctic Inspiration Prize laureates. Moon Sky: Raven coin, Royal Canadian Mint.

2025Nunatsiavut pin, St. John’s 2025 Canada Games.

2026Canada’s National Parks: Torngat Mountains coin, Royal Canadian Mint.