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Sobey Winner Invited to Documenta
This is a banner year for Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook, whose stylized naïve depictions of the co-existence of modern convenience and tradition in northern Canada have attracted unprecedented attention. Winner of the $50,000 Sobey Art Award in 2006, Pootoogook had a solo show last summer at Toronto’s Power Plant, and shared billing with other Sobey finalists at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in late 2006. While on the shortlist for the Sobey, she learned she had been invited to the Documenta show in Kassel, Germany. One of the most prestigious showcases for contemporary art in the world, Documenta is only produced once every five years. The first Inuit artist to be invited to the exhibition, Pootoogook has been working through the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She is descended from a fine line of graphic artists,
including her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona, and her mother Napachie Pootoogook.
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