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 2023–
Ezhishin Scholarship (Type Directors Club, NYC) 2023
Indigenous Visual Artists Materials (Ontario Arts Council) 2023
Communication Arts (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
Nuuk, Greenland
2025.02+.11

The Girjegumpi crew with Joar Nango (and Tobias Aputsiaq Prytz, Arne-Terje Sæther, Katarina Spik Skum); A Laboratory for Traditional Hybridity
Graphic design as part of the 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

Inua    2022 — Publication design for the inaugural exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. 100 works of art, 91 artists, 189 pages hardcover. 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.
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