Annie Pootoogook

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Annie Pootoogook (born 1969 in Cape Dorset, then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut, Canada) is a Canadian contemporary artist. One of her influences was her mother, Napatchie Pootoogook (died 2002), who was also an artist.

In November 2006, she won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, which is given to an artist 39 years old or younger who has shown their work in a public or commercial art gallery in Canada in the past 18 months. "Annie Pootoogook's work reflects both the current moment of a specific tradition and of a contemporary drawing practice," the curators and jury for the award said in a press release.