Mervyn Child Kwaguł Carver

Mervyn Child - CV

EXHIBITIONS

1986- 91 BC Indian Arts and Crafts Society
1989 The Hunt Family Tree, Legacy Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Tsonoqua, Siwidi Exhibit, Campbell River Museum, Campbell River, BC.
Todance, Legacy Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1989 Chiefly Feast Exhibit, New York, NY. A contemporary art show Children of the Kwakakwaka'wakw 1990-92 Nexus, Vancouver, BC.
1993 Echoes of Chiefly Feasts: masterworks by eleven members of the Hunt Family, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC.
Tribal Miniatures '93, first annual exhibition Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC.
1998 Voices From Ft. Rupert: The Hunt Family Carves, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC
1999 Brussels, Belgium - Copper Maker Art Show at the Royal Museum of Art and History
2003 Capturing Chaos - Artist in Residence, Courtney, B.C.
2007 Portland, Oregon - Copper Maker Art Show with Quintana Gallery - Rituals of Initiation
2008 Heart of the City Festival - 5th. Annual - Vancouver, B.C.
2009 First Nations Exhibit: Roundhouse - Vancouver, B.C.
2012 Quintana Galleries - Portland Oregon. 40th Anniversary

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS

1986 60 ft. Hunt Pole in memory of Chief Thomas Hunt, assisted Calvin Hunt.
1990 Port Hardy, BC, Restoration of 18 ft. Charlie James pole, 22 ft. Willie Seaweed pole, and 17 ft. Charlie G. Walkus pole - assisted by Calvin Hunt.
1992 Port Hardy, BC, U gwa ma lis memorial pole.
1993 Fort Rupert, BC, Carved 32 ft. family canoe in memory of Grandmother, Makwalogwa.
1994 Comox, B.C. 2 Totem Poles assisted Calvin Hunt
Replica of 1926 Willie Seaweed Pole, Port Hardy, B.C.
1995 Quennesh Gallery Housefront, Comox, B.C. Assisted Calvin Hunt
1996 - 15ft. War Veteran Memorial Pole, Port Hardy, B.C.
1997 Fisheries and Ocean Logo - Integrated Management - Port Hardy, B.C.
40ft. Canoe, Kwakiutl Band, Port Hardy, B.C.
Canoe Project, Assisted with 2 canoes
1999 Fort Rupert, BC Kwakiutl Band, Wagalus Daycare - Building house front, carved main doors, Eagle figure, and Eagle Crest Pole.
2003 Victoria, BC, 18' Pole honouring Canadian Aboriginal War Veterans assisted Calvin Hunt and John Livingston.
2004 Bill Holm Centre - Auction, Canoe Model, Seattle.
Restoration of Wawadila (Mungo Martin House) Royal BC Museum, Victoria, B.C.
2008 Vancouver Friendship Center, carved traditional dugout canoe with inner-city youth.
2009 Assisted Calvin Hunt carving a 37’ Tlingit Longtail Canoe, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC 2010 Fort Rupert, BC Kwakiutl Band, Olympic
2010 - Raven and Eagle Crest Poles assisted Calvin Hunt and Stanley Hunt in carving to commemorative crest pole.Collections
* Campbell River Museum, Campbell River, B.C.
* Bill Gates Foundation, Seattle Washington.
* Microsoft Corporation
* Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, B.C.
* Lowe Art Museum, Florida.
* Muse’e Du Cinquiantenaire, Bruxeilles.

Published

1987 - “The Tradition of Inspired Inovation”, Gallery 10 Inc.
1992 - “Native People Volume 5 Number 3, Frontispiece”.
1995 - “The Great Canoes”, David Neel
1998 - “Down From the Shimmering Sky”, Vancouver Art Gallery
2003 - Wave Length, “The Path of the Great Canoes”
2004 - “Blue and Gold”, University of British Columbia
2007 - “Celebrating 35 Years”, Quintana Galleries
2012 - “Autumn”, American Indian Art Magazine