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       PUDLALIK SHAA
       Born:  December 29, 1965       Male       E7-1906
       Resides:  Cape Dorset
       Sculpture
       Pudlalik's parents, Aqjangajuk and Kilabuk Shaa, are Cape Dorset artists.
       Aqjangajuk is a renowned sculptor.  Pudlalik's brother Qiatsuq is also a     
       carver, as was his brother Qavavau, who died in 1991.                         
                                                                                     
       He was influenced by his father's work. " I watched him as he carved, he      
       taught me. I did my first carving when I was twelve years old. It was a small 
       seal, since then I've been carving, not all the time, but whenever I felt up  
       to it."                                                                       
                                      from an interview with the                     
                                      Inuit Art Section Nov. 1994                    

       EXHIBITIONS:
       Nov - Dec 1992                Sculpture Inuit
                                                  Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec                   
                                                   Montreal, Quebec
       February 1993                  Kunstwerke der Inuit
                                                   Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein                  
                                                   in conjunction with the annual meeting            
                                                   of the Association of Canadian Studies            
                                                   at the Hotel am Badersee                          
                                                   Grainau, Germany
       April - July 1993                Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of
                                                   Shamanic Transformation                           
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated brochure)
       June - July 1993                The Next Generation--Inuit Sculpture
                                                   Gallery Indigena                                  
                                                   Stratford, Ontario
       March - April 1994            Wildlife and Nature in Art
                                                   Arctic Experience                                 
                                                   Hamilton, Ontario

       April - June 1994               The Shaa Family: Axangayu Shaa,
                                                   Qiatsuq Shaa, Pudlalik Shaa                       
                                                   Albers Gallery of Inuit Art                       
                                                   San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
       August - October 1994     Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic
                                                   Bayly Art Museum                                  
                                                   University of Virginia                            
                                                   Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
       May - September 1995    Keeping Our Stories Alive:
                                                   An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts               
                                                   from Dene and Inuit of Canada                     
                                                   Institute of American Indian Arts Museum          
                                                   Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       COLLECTIONS:
       Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba           
       SELECTED REFERENCES:
       Institute of American Indian Arts Museum          
           KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE:  An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from
           Dene and Inuit of Canada.  Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American
           Native Arts Museum, 1995.