Gyta Eeseemailee Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1955 -

GYTA EESEEMAILEE (EESEEMAILIE; GEETA; ISHMAEL)

Born: April 22, 1955 Male E6-755
Resides: Pangnirtung
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking, Tapestries

Gyta's father Atunganyak creates drawings, images for prints and tapestry
designs. His brother Beetanie is a carver.

EXHIBITIONS:

1976, 1980, 1983, 1992, 1993, Pangnirtung Print Collection
1994 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)

1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1992, Pangnirtung Print Collection (printmaker)
1994, 1995 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)

March - April 1981 Pangnirtung Tapestries/Tapisseries de
Pangnirtung
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec

May 1981 Pangnirtung Tapestries
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba

May - June 1981 Pangnirtung - Recent Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

October - Nov 1983 The Arctic/L'Artique
UNESCO
Paris, France
(illustrated catalogue)

May 1984 Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
Northern Images
Inuvik, Northwest Territories

June - August 1986 Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

February - June 1987 The Lindsay and Swartz Collections:
New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba

July - November 1987 Useful Bits of Bone
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba

October - Dec 1989 Baffin Images
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

May 1994 Artists and Weavers IV
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

COLLECTIONS:

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

SELECTED REFERENCES:

Goldfarb, Barbara
ARTISTS, WEAVERS, MOVERS AND SHAKERS. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol.
4, no. 2, Spring, 1989. pp.14-18.

Houston, John
ART & SOUL: A roaring fire destroyed their home, but not their
dreams. A story of the steel spirit and true heart of arctic
art. EQUINOX: No. 81; June 1995, pp. 70-85.