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.


       (c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995