Johnny Lee was born on December 7, 1971, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, and currently lives in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. He hails from a family of carvers; his father was the late Saila Pudlat, and his mother is Padloo Saila Pudlat. Johnny Lee is a self-taught carver who has been practicing since 1986. His work has been featured in exhibitions such as ‘Young Carvers from Cape Dorset’ at the Albers Gallery of Inuit Art in San Francisco, CA, and ‘Stone and Bone – The Inuit Master Carvers of the Canadian Arctic’ at the North West Company in the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts and Humanities, Ketchum, Idaho.
