Odette Leroux was born in Montreal, Quebec, and obtained a L. ès L. in Art History from L'Institut d'art et d'archéologie, Université de Paris in 1974. She is the former Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization where she was responsible for may major exhibitions such as The Cape Dorset Print: Commenorating Twenty-five Years of Printmaking at Cape Dorset, an exhibition at Rideau Hall by the National Museum of Man (Ottawa, 1983); In the Shadow of the Sun, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1988–10); Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1990); Inuit Art, Tradition and Regeneration, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1992–93); and Isumavut: THe Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, 1994–95), upon which this book is based.