Sorosiluto Ashoona Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1941 -

SOROSILUTO ASHOONA
(WAKTA; SOROSEELUTU; SOROSILUTU; SHOROSHILUTO; SOROSILUTOO)

Born: March 16, 1941 Female E7-1172
Resides: Cape Dorset
Drawings, Prints

Sorosiluto is married to the sculptor Kiawak Ashoona. She is the
granddaughter of artists Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk. Sorosiluto is also the
half-sister of Joanasie Solomonie.


"If it weren't for Pitseolak, my mother-in-law, I don't think I would
have ever learned to draw. For a long time, she kept asking me to try, but
because I was afraid to try, it wasn't until a year later that I started.
Sometimes I try to do some pictures of stories I have heard about the old
days. Sometimes it seems when I begin to draw that, not on purpose, I am
drawing the same thing I have done before. Sometimes when I see the finished
print, I can't really remember when I did the drawing, but I like the prints
better than the drawings because of the colours."
Cape Dorset print catalogue 1978

EXHIBITIONS:

1965, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, Cape Dorset Graphics
1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, (annual collection)
1993 (illustrated catalogue)

August - September 1968Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and
Paintings of Norval Morrisseau
Art Association of Newport
Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)

1973 Canadian Eskimo Lithographs: Third Collection
Presented under the auspices of the
Cultural Affairs Division of the
Department of External Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

1975 - 1976 Inuit Women in Transition
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)

1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions
des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

May 1975 Original Drawings by Nine Cape Dorset Women
Gallery of Fine Canadian Crafts
Kingston, Ontario

October 1975 - December 1977

Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)

1976 Sanasitit/Good Makers
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario

1976 - 1982 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Canadian Arctic Producers and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

January 1977 - June 1982The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

August 1978 Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.
Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)

November - December 1978
Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)

July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

November 1979 - October 1984

Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Arts and Learning Services Foundation
(this is a duplicate of the C.A.P. and
National Museum of Man exhibition of
1976-1981)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(tour)

August - October 1980 The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)

September - October 1980
La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea
Goddess
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
Rome, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)

September - October 1981
The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)

June - October 1982 Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario

December 1982 The Beat of the Drum
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)

February - March 1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

June 1983 Return to Origins III
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

October - November '83 The Cape Dorset Print
Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

June 1984 Demons and Spirits and those who
wrestled with them
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

September - October '84 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

October 1984 Images of the Far North
Studio Art Gallery,
State University of New York
Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.

May - June 1987 Inuit Graphics from the Past
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.

November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

June - September 1988 The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta

June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

November 1993 - January 1994

Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)

June '95 - February '96 Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba

COLLECTIONS:

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:

1974 Commissioned by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Ottawa to make a series of drawings to be included in
the exhibition"Inuit Women in Transition."

1975 Commissioned by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Ottawa to make a series of twelve drawings describing
Inuit games in honour of the 1976 summer Olympics.

SELECTED REFERENCES:

Canada. Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs
ABOUT ARTS AND CRAFTS. Ottawa : Department of Indian and
Northern Affairs, 1977.

Collinson, Helen
INUIT GAMES AND CONTESTS: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of
Prints. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Collections, 1978.

Houston, James A.
ESKIMO ARTISTS. The Geographical Magazine, vol. 34, no. 11,
March, 1962. pp.638-650.

Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg)
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick
and Lucy S. Herman. Williamsburg, Va.: The College of William
and Mary in Virginia, 1993.

National Museum of Man
THE INUIT PRINT = L'ESTAMPE INUIT: A Travelling Exhibition... =
Une exposition itinerante... Ottawa: National Museum of Man,
National Museums of Canada, 1977.

Swinton, Nelda
LA DEESSE INUITE DE LA MER. = THE INUIT SEA GODDESS. Montreal:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1980.

Winnipeg Art Gallery
INUIT AMAUTIK/ESKIMOKUNST: de Amautik in de Inuitmaatschappij
en-Kunst. Brussels: Commissariaat-Generaal voor de
Internationale Culturele Samenwerking, 1985.