Kakulu was born in 1940 on the Hudson's Bay Company's supply ship Nascopie, en route from Clyde River to Pangnirtung. At that time, her parents and older brother were members of a small group of Inuit who had traveled from south Baffin to trap and hunt furs in the northern regions of the island. Kakulu was just a small child when she moved back to the Cape Dorset area.

Kakulu began to draw in the early 1960s when the newly established co-op introduced its graphic arts program. 

Kakulu's mother Ikayukta was also one of the early contributors to the annual print collections from Cape Dorset. Her older brother was Qavaroak Tunnillie, a prolific and talented sculptor.  Kakulu's husband Saggiaktok, was a printmaker in the Cape Dorset stonecut studio. He would frequently proof and edition those images by Kakulu which had been chosen for stonecut prints. 

ARTIST STATEMENT:
"Because I am not very old, I don't usually draw in the old ways, but in my mind I would like to. Because I am not very old, I don't really remember. I was born on a ship, the Nascopie, when my parents were travelling around Baffin Island. I don't remember much about those early years, but I have one memory of being taken by canoe from the ship to the land by a white man.

Exhibitions

• 4th National Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Society
• Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
• Cape Dorset Graphics *66, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *70, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *71, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *74, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *76, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *77, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *78, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *79, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *80, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *81, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *82, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *83, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *84, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *86, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *87, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *89, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *94, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *95, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Revisited, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection of previously unreleased prints, exhibited at selected commercial galleries, organized by, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
• Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture, National Gallery of Modern Art
• Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada: First Collection, Cultural Affairs Division, Department of External Affairs, Canada
• In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and Playing, Feheley Fine Arts
• Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
• Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
• We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs
• Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic, Marion Scott Gallery

Collections

• Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
• Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
• Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
• University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg