Pudlalik is one of the sons of noted sculptor Aqjangajuk Shaa. Pudlalik made his first carving when he was 12 and has been carving ever since. He learned by watching the generation of carvers who, like his father, used axes to work on their pieces. Pudlalik still uses an axe on occasion, though he also uses more modern tools. Familiar themes are walrus and drumdancers.

Pudlalik was influenced by his father's work. "I watched [my father] as he carved, he taught me. ...my first carving ...was a small seal, since then I've been carving, not all the time, but whenever I felt up to it." Interview with the artist, Inuit Art Section, Nov. 1994.

Exhibitions

• Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic, Bayly Art Museum University of Virginia
• Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
• Kunstwerke der Inuit, Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Studies at the Hotel am Badersee
• Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Sculpture Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• The Next Generation--Inuit Sculpture, Gallery Indigena
• The Shaa Family: Axangayu Shaa, Qiatsuq Shaa, Pudlalik Shaa, Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
• Wildlife and Nature in Art, Arctic Experience

Collections

• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg