Mark Bennett is an Inuk designer and imagemaker based in Toronto, Canada, originally from western Ktaqmkuk /Newfoundland. He is currently attending University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture and completing an undergraduate degree in Architectural Studies (2028).


Collaborators + Clients
National Gallery of Canada
Fogo Island Arts
University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design 
Inuit Art Quarterly
Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq
Lateral Office
Joar Nango
Gallery 44
The Goldfarb Gallery
Images Festival
Bonavista Biennale
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery
Grenfell Art Gallery
Fogo Island Inn
Varley Art Gallery of Markham
The Rooms


Recognition
National Magazine Awards (Toronto) 2026
Galleries Ontario, Identity Renewal Design (Toronto) 2025
Galleries Ontario, Exhibition Publication Design (Toronto) 2024
Kajungiqsaut Grant (Inuit Art Foundation / Canada Council for the Arts) 2024–
Graham Foundation (Chicago, IL) w/ Geronimo Inutiq + Rafico Ruiz, Ikiaqqijjut [Travelling through Layers]: A Field Guide to Infrastructural Literacy and Northern Connection, 2024–
Ezhishin Scholarship (Type Directors Club, NYC) 2023
Indigenous Visual Artists Materials (Ontario Arts Council) 2023
Communication Arts, Shortlist, Editorial Design (Menlo Park, CA) 2019
Registered Graphic Designers of Canada (Domtar Print Design Award) 2019


Residencies/Talks + Onsite Projects
Architecture and Design in the Circumpolar North Panel Talk
Suialaa Arts Festival
Nuuk Kunstmuseum
Nuuk, Greenland
2025.02+.10

Installation Graphic Design/Typography for The Girjegumpi crew with Joar Nango (and Tobias Aputsiaq Prytz, Arne-Terje Sæther, Katarina Spik Skum); A Laboratory for Traditional Hybridity
36th Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
2025.08

ᕿᓐᓂᕋᔮᑦᑐᖅ Qinnirajaattuq / Ripples: Making Waves in Inuit Art symposium
Montreal, QC
2024.11

Artist-in-residence – Troms og Finnmark County Council
Tromsø, Sápmi (Norway)
2024.06

Self-directed Typography Residency
Copenhagen, Denmark
2023.01

Aabijijiwan Indigenous Media Lab Residency
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Canada
2022.06


Find me by email — studio (at) markjbennett.com

National Gallery of Canada    2026 — Publication design for exhibition Qillaniq. Featuring 24 contributors/essays from circumpolar world  Alaska, Inuit Nunangat, Kalaaliit Nunaat, and Sápmi, with 70+ artists. Curated by Jocelyn Piirainen, Laakkuluk Williamson, Liisa-Rávná Finbog (Rámavuol Liisa-Rávdná), Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, Ooleepeeka Eegeesiak, Taqralik Partridge. Available here. Graphic design, layout, and contributing photography throughout the publication I’ve taken in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Sápmi. Dimensions: 210mm x 250mm. 272 pages.

Fogo Island Arts    2026 — Visual identity refresh for the international artist residency organization on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Working closely with director Kitty Scott, the new wordmark system (typeface selection, implementation, and direction) retains the contemporary approach while incorprating the playfulness and personality of the program and island.

Kakiniit Pavilion    2026 — An evolving architectural project around kakiniit — traditional Inuit tattooing — and identity.

36ª Bienal de São Paulo   2025–2026 — Working onsite as the Girjegumpi crew (Tobias Aputsiaq Prytz, Arne-Terje Sæther, Katarina Spik Skum) for artist/architect Joar Nango, I created a typeface and graphic installation as part of A Laboratory for Traditional Hybridity. “From the ashes of the old world we will sprout like a savage (wild) grove” translated from Brazilian Portuguese into Sámi, Labrador Inuktitut, and the local Indigenous language of Tekoa Pindó Mirim (Itapuã). Image 1: Natt Fejfar / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

National Gallery of Canada   2023 — Monographic publication design of late Inuk artist Nick Sikkuark accompanying the exhibition. Trilingual (Inuktitut, English, French). Available here. Dimensions: 240mm x 305mm. 304 pages.

WAG-Qaumajuq    2022 — A redesign of the visual identity wordmark for the Winnipeg Art Gallery with a custom drawn typeface. As they introduced the new architectural addition of the largest collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world, the reference point became architect Michael Maltzan’s expressions found in the new building. It was important to keep the full name Qaumajuq in the representation, guiding the use of language as part of the core identity.

Inua    2022 — Publication design for the inaugural exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. 100 works of art, 91 artists. Neon spot green throughout and silver foil stamped hardcover. Curators representing all four corners of Inuit Nunangat: Dr. Heather Igloliorte, asinnajaq, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, and Kablusiak. Available here. Dimensions: 235mm x 286mm. 189 pages, hardcover.

Sikumit Aisimajugut   2025–2026 — A custom typeface developed for Lateral Office’s exhibition at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto. The ask was for a typographic identity for the exhibition. I decided to reference vernacular architecture from Nain, (Labrador, Canada) Nunatsiavut’s northernmost permanent settlement. The typeface was handpainted onto the wall of the gallery space, just as the original design that was in the National Film Board of Canada/Roger Hart’s film Labrador North (1973). The free font can be downloaded here. The project website designed by Lateral Office is found athomeonice.ca  

Typography Experiments   2021–2023 — A mix of custom typefaces I’ve designed for different projects, artists, or experiments, often times starting with pen and paper. An article I wrote for Inuit Art Quarterly encouraging other Inuit to get into typography design can be found here.

Bonavista Biennale   2025 — Visual identity and publication design/layout for the art biennale in Bonavista, Newfoundland. Original concept designs and alternate poster iterations are shown as well as the final printed publication for String Games. The cover includes a raised spot varnish special mapped to the image. Visual ID assets created in Touchdesigner as moving design elements to be used in moving and non-moving outputs throughout the campaign.

Gallery 44  2025 — Exhibition publication for thinking alongside itself, a collection of essays by 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence, Weiyi Chang, published on the occasion of Cold Data, an exhibition by 2023-2024 Artists-in-Residence, Soft Turns. Features an evolving use of metallic silver and dynamic typographic column framework as each section progresses. Available for purchase here. Dimensions: 152mm x 229mm. 64 pages.

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