Eegyvudluk Pootoogook was born in 1931 at Ikarasak camp, near Cape Dorset (Kinngait). He is the son of the late graphic artist and carver Pootoogook (1887-1958), and graphic artist Ningeookaluk (1889-1962), but was raised by Iqaluq Petaulassie (Echalook Goo). His wife Napatchie is also a well-known graphic artist. Eegyvudluk's brothers Kananginak, Paulassie, and Pudlat (1919-1985) are all Cape Dorset (Kinngait) artists as well.

"Eegyvudluk is one of the small but faithful group of printers at Cape Dorset who has worked in the printshop for more than 25 years. He is known as a stone block cutter and printer, but has tried his hand at almost every technique - stonecut, stonecut and stencil, sealskin stencil, stencil, silkscreen and stencil, linocut, lithography, and etching, especially during the early, experimental years." from "Canadian Inuit Print Artist/Printer Biographies", 1990, compiled and edited by Sandra Barz.

Exhibitions

• Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum
• ART ESKIMO, Galerie de France
• Baffin Images, Orca Aart
• Baffin Island Sculpture, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Cape Dorset Graphics *60, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *67, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *60, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *61, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *62, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *63, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *66, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *67, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *68, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *69, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *70, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *71, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *72, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *73, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *76, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *77, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *78, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *79, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *80, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *81, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *82, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *83, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *84, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *85, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989, McMichael Canadian Collection
• Cape Dorset Stone Sculpture: Masters & the Next Generation, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Cape Dorset: Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Contemporary Canadian Eskimo Art, Gimpel Fils
• Early Masterpieces of Inuit Sculpture, Feheley Fine Arts
• Eskimo Narrative, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and Paintings of Norval Morrisseau, Art Association of Newport
• From Drawing to Print: Perceptions and Process in Cape Dorset Art, Glenbow Museum
• Images of the Inuit: from the Simon Fraser Collection, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University
• In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
• Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, McMichael Canadian Collection
• Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and Playing, Feheley Fine Arts
• Inuitkonst fran Kanada - skulptor och grafik, Millesgarden
• Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks, Presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly
• Masterwork Sculpture 1986, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Northern Exhibit, Stratford Festival
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts
• Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of Inuit Art, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
• The Art of the Eskimo, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University
• The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery

Collections

• Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
• Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Fitzgerald Collection, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
• Glenbow Museum, Calgary
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick
• Tate Gallery, London
• Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg