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 Sylvester Tungi
Iatmul
Kaminibit Village, Middle Sepik,
Sylvester Tungi was born in 1952 in Kaminibit Village where he started to learn to carve when he was six years old. He is married and has seven children. The boys are learning to carve and the girls to weave in the traditional styles of the Iatmul people. Renowned for his refined and intricate carving, Tungi is one of the leading master carvers in Papua New Guinea and his work can be found in Germany, France, Holland, Australia, the United States and Canada.
Special Projects and Public Collections:
Daetz-Centrum Museum: Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture, Lichtenstein Germany
South Seas Gallery, New York, USA, 1975
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Exhibitions:
Ancestral Spirits, The Sculptural Art of Papua New Guinea: 1989, Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver,B.C. Canada.
Big Man Magic : Art of the Sepik:1990, Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver,B.C.
Saltwater Crocodile, Memory and Myth: 1989, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria,B.C.
Pieces From Paradise : 1992, cohosted by Fran Willis Gallery /Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Sepik Spirits I : 1992, Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver, B.C.
Ceremony and Passage : 1996, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Sepik Spirits II: 1997, Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver, B.C.
Tribal Miniatures: 1997, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Ancestral Flights: 2000, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
New Voices of the Tambaran: 2004, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Tribal Adornments: 2004, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Rhythms of the Garamut: 2006, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
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