Artist
Bio: Kananginak Pootoogook: Male artist
(drawings, prints, printmaking, sculpture,
& jewellery). Born: January 1,1935, lives
in Cape Dorset.
Has been involved in C.D Printmaking since
its inception in 1959, worked with James Houston.
He represents realistic Arctic wildlife and
narrative drawings of camp and hunting scenes.
Kananginak's work has been featured in galleries
around the world. He was commissioned by
Governor General Romeo Leblanc in 1997 to
construct, on the grounds of Rideau Hall,
an inuksuk as a tribute to Native Peoples
of Canada.
