Ovilu (Oviloo) Tunnillie RCA (December 20, 1949 – June 12, 2014) was born at Kangia, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)[1][2] and was an Inuk sculptor.

[3] At a young age, Oviloo's family was disrupted by the government's forced removal of tuberculosis (TB) patients to sanitariums in southern Canada.

[1][4][5] However as an eldest daughter, Ovilu's interest in sculpture was unaligned with typical social roles, and she often faced pressure from family to abandon her practice at a young age.

[4] Themes in her work range from alcohol abuse and sexual assault to memories of her time in a southern TB clinic freely depicting the inter-cultural reality of the contemporary Inuit women.

[1] Tunnillie had her first solo exhibition in June of 1981 at the Canadian Guild of Crafts in Montreal, after which she was represented by Dorset Fine Arts (DFA) in Toronto.