George Arluk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 5, 1949. The fourth child of a family of seven he was the only one of his siblings to become full-time artist. His brother, Charlie Panigoniak, would also carve but would choose music as his artistic expression. 

Arluk taught himself to carve at age nine. His early works are influenced by the abstract style of Tiktak, Kavik and John Pangnark who encountered while he lived in Rankin Inlet from 1956 to 1975. 

By the mid-1970s Arluk's had developed a distinct style; his abstract sculptures varying greatly from the typically realistic representations of Inuit life.  His subjects sometimes include spirits and arctic animals, but his main theme is the human figure, depicting single figures such as hunters and mothers with babies in their amautiks. He sometimes groups figures together to form abstracted compositions of gently curving forms, drawing comparison to the sculpture of Henry Moore. 

Arluk is considered to be one of the most prominent artists of the Keewatin region.

Exhibitions

• Abstract in Stone, Northern Reflections Eskimo Art Gallery
• Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum
• Art Inuit, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Maite Aubert
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Ombre et Lumiere
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie La Tour des Cardinaux
• Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de la Wallonie, Liege
• Art Inuit, Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie La Poutre, Marseille
• Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Centre Culturel Canadien
• Arviat: Eskimo Point, Marion Scott Gallery
• Bears of the North, Snow Goose Associates
• Beeldhouwkunst van de Inuit (Canada), by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, France at Amphora Finippon pvba, Sint Andries, Brugge, Belgium
• Collector's Choice: 1965-1980, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Drawings and Sculpture from Baker Lake, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Eskimo Art, Embankment Gallery
• Eskimo Fantastic Art, Gallery 111, School of Art, University of Manitoba
• Espaces Inuit, Maison Hamel-Bruneau
• George Arlook - The Song in the Stone, Images of the North
• George Arlook Sculpture, University of Alberta
• George Arluk, Inuit Galerie
• George Arluk, Inuit Galerie
• George Arluk - Sculpture, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Images from the Arctic, Galerie D'Art Vincent
• In Celebration, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
• Inuit Art: from the collection of Maurice Yacowar, Collector's Gallery
• Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Inuit Sculpture 1974/Sculpture Inuit 1974, Lippel Gallery
• Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musee des Beaux-arts d'Arras
• Kanuitpit? Kunst und Kulturen der Eskimo: Eine Auswahl aus den Museumssammlungen, Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen
• Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's, Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum Huis Hellemans
• Legacy in Stone: Carvings from the Canadian Arctic, Four Winds Gallery
• Major/Minor, Marion Scott Gallery
• Mother and Child: Selections from the Inuit Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario
• Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Not Just a Dancing Step..., Galerie D'Art Vincent
• Primitive Art from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry
• Rankin Inlet/Kangirlliniq, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Sculpture by Arlook of Rankin Inlet, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• Sculpture by George Arlook, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Sculpture Inuit: Stone/Bone circa 1960-1979, Canadiana Galleries
• Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/ Dr. Harry Winrob Collection, Surrey Art Gallery
• Sixty Diminutive Eskimo Carvings, Images of the North
• Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts
• The Bear: Sculpture, Albers Gallery
• The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit Imagination, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit: Managers of the Land, Chrysalis Gallery
• The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
• The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Sculpture of George Arlook, Richard Rapfogel Fine Arts
• The Spirit of the Land, The Koffler Gallery
• The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Williamson Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
• The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Three Sculptors; George Arlook, Charlie Kittosuk and Enook Manomie, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
• Traditions and Innovations in Inuit Art Sculpture in Stone, Images of the North
• Tundra & Ice IV, Orca Aart Gallery
• Tundra & Ice: Exceptional Sculpture from Canada, Orca Aart Gallery
• Two Artists - Sculpture/Arlook, Drawings/Qarlisaq, Image of the Inuit Contempo Westwood Centre
• Useful Bits of Bone, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• [Inuit Art Exhibition], Whitby Arts Incorporated, The Station Gallery
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Les Martres-de-Veyre
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chambre de Commerce de Chateauroux
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at St. Marcellin
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet

Collections

• Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Eskimo Museum, Churchill
• Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet
• Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
• Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Red Deer and District Museum and Archives, Red Deer
• Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• Williamson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg