Paulassie Pootoogook was born in 1927. His renowned father was Pootoogook, a powerful Inuit leader whose influence extended the length of Baffin Island. Pootoogook's tacit approval of the fledgling print program in Cape Dorset encouraged the participation of the Inuit in what has become such an internationally renowned art form. Paulassie contributed as a printmaker in 1959 and released two prints with the 1960 and 1966 collections. He has shown extensively as a carver and is featured in many museums. Pootoogook is most well known for his sculptures of polar bears from his early career, but later transitioned to working in non-traditional styles depicting Christian imagery. He died in 2006. 

Exhibitions

• An Enduring Tradition: Inuit Carving from Arctic Quebec, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Arctic Forms - Inuit Sculpture, Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
• Arctic Ice: Sculptures in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories, Marion Scott Gallery
• ART ESKIMO, Galerie de France
• Art Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Art/Inuit/Art: The Rothmans Permanent Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
• Arts from the Arctic, Anchorage Museum of History and Art
• Baffin Images, Orca Aart
• Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition, Baffin Regional School
• Birds: Sculpture from Cape Dorset & Rock Ptarmigan Limited Edition Print by Kananginak, The Guild Shop
• Cape Dorset Graphics *60, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *66, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *59, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Sculptors and Their Sculpture, The Inuit Art Collection Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bacon
• Cape Dorset Sculpture, Eskimo Art Inc.
• Cape Dorset Stone Sculpture: Masters & the Next Generation, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Collectors' Choice - An Exhibition of Important Inuit Sculpture, Waddington Galleries
• Contemporary Art: Cape Dorset, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Eskimo Sculpture, Man & His World, Arctic Pavilion
• Heritage of the Inuit: Masterpieces of the Eskimo, Colorado Galleries of the Arts, Arapahoe Community College
• Images of our past, Art of Man Gallery
• Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
• In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Inoonoot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran Cape Dorset och Povungnituk, Konstframjandet
• Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada, National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
• Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
• Miniaturen, Inuit Galerie
• Mythology in Stone, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Paulassie Pootoogook, Inuit Galerie
• Paulassie Pootoogook, Inuit Galerie
• Paulassie Pootoogook, Inuit Galerie
• Pauloosie Pootoogook, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Paulossie Pootoogook, Cape Dorset, The Guild Shop
• Sculpture, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council a competition/exhibition organized as a contribution to the Centennial of the N.W.T.
• Sculpture in Miniature, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Sedna: Spirit of the Sea, Feheley Fine Arts
• Small Sculptures by Great Artists I, Feheley Fine Arts
• Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts
• Songs in Stone, The Arctic Circle
• Takamit - Canadian Eskimo Art: Selections from Private Collections and the Government of Canada, Organized by La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
• The Ancestors/Links Between Worlds, Minnesota Museum of Art
• The Early Years: Sculpture from the 50's and 60's, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• The Hand: Images in Inuit Sculpture, The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
• The Inuit Sea Goddess, Surrey Art Gallery, (organized to complement the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit of the same name)
• The Oral Tradition, National Museum of Man
• The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
• Ulu/Inua: Form and Fantasy in Eskimo Art, Casino Gallery, Ravinia Park
• We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs

Collections

• Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
• Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
• Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Glenbow Museum, Calgary
• Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet
• Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Rothmans Permanent Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Toronto
• Shell Canada Collection, Calgary
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg