Cee Pootoogook

Cee began carving when he was in his early twenties around 1990. His favourite subjects to carve are animal spirits and spirit transformations. *

He is the son of Cape Dorset artists Egeevudluk and Napachie Pootoogook. His maternal grandmother, the late Pitseolak Ashoona, was a renowned graphic artist at Cape Dorset.

* Courtesy – Feheley Fine Arts

Cee has been working as a stonecut printer trainee for three years, demonstrating an aptitude for the precise and methodical qualities required for the time consuming work of editioning prints. He has also been drawing for the past several years, depicting the day to day activities of community life as well as traditional subjects and wildlife.

Cee is the eldest son of the late Napachie Pootoogook and Eegyvadluk Pootoogook, and older brother to the well known Cape Dorset contemporary artist, Annie Pootoogook.

Born on August 1, 1967 in Cape Dorset, NU. Nationality is Inuit

Exhibitions

2018 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2017 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2015 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, INUIT NOW, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2015 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2014 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2012 Cape Dorset Graphics Collection, Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2001 Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts, Houston North Gallery, Lunenberg, NS
2001 Small Sculptures by Great Artists, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
1995 Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany (brochure)
1994 Burdick Gallery, Washington, DC