Annie Pootoogook

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Annie Pootoogook (born 1969 in Cape Dorset, then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut, Canada) is a Canadian contemporary Inuit artist. Her influences include her mother, Napatchie Pootoogook (died 2002), and her grandmother, Pitseolak Ashoona (died 1983), both of whom were accomplished artists.

In November 2006, she won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, which is given to an artist 39 years old or younger who has shown their work in a public or commercial art gallery in Canada in the past 18 months. "Annie Pootoogook's work reflects both the current moment of a specific tradition and of a contemporary drawing practice," the curators and jury for the award said in a press release.

She exhibited at the 2007 Biennale de Montréal and, in the same year, had works at both the Basel Art Fair and documenta 12. This combination was a first for an Inuit artist.

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• Annie Pootoogook Winner of 2006 Sobey Art Award, Presented by Scotiabank
• Nunatsiaq News, June 24, 2005 - Mother, daughter art team capture contemporary Cape Dorset - Toronto exhibit shows some of the darker realities of Inuit life
• Feheley Fine Arts - Moving Forward: Works on Paper by Annie Pootoogook
• Drawing Society of Canada - Annie Pootoogook
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, June 27, 2006 - Culture Clash: Annie Pootoogook captures Canada’s north-south divide, by David Balzer