Kingwatsiak first worked as a stone carver, then later became well known for his printmaking. His work is held in a variety of museums, including the
National Gallery of Canada, the
Hood Museum of Art, the University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh, and the
University of Michigan Museum of Art. In 1992, he attended the Conference on Inuit Art held at the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection in
Kleinburg, Ontario. Later, he said of the trip, "I enjoyed being there, but the problem was that we sat there like pieces of art in a showcase display. The non-Inuit at the conference spoke as much as they pleased about their own lives and how they lived like Inuit. But they never gave us a chance to speak or asked us questions about our work. The white people dominated as usual. . . .We work hard to make a living with our art and nobody asked us to talk about how we make our carvings and prints and what kind of tools and other things we use." == References ==