married to Kiawak Ashoona, granddaughter of Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk, half sister of Joanassie Salamonie-----------------Female - Drawing, Prints.Soroseelutu is married to the well-known Inuit sculptor Kiawak Ashoona, whose mother Pitseolak Ashoona helped develop Soroseelutu's talent. She is the grand-daughter of the artists Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk."If it weren't for Pitseolak, my mother-in-law, I don't think I would have ever learned to draw." - Soroseelutu Ashoona as quoted in the 1978 Cape Dorset print catalog. Her work has been exhibited around the world.----------BiographyBorn: March 16, 1941Community: Cape DorsetFemale - Drawing, Prints.Soroseelutu is married to the well-known Inuit sculptor Kiawak Ashoona, whose mother Pitseolak Ashoona helped develop Soroseelutu's talent. She is the grand-daughter of the artists Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk."If it weren't for Pitseolak, my mother-in-law, I don't think I would have ever learned to draw." - Soroseelutu Ashoona as quoted in the 1978 Cape Dorset print catalog. Her work has been exhibited around the world.Artist StatementIf it weren't for Pitseolak, my moher-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 latern 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 purpoe, I am drawing the same thing I have done before. I always have to add something to make it a little different. 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.When my husband, Kiawak, and I first came to Cape dorset, we lived in a very small house. At that time, it seemed such a big house, but today when I see it, it seems very small. I started drawing after we had moved here. The first time I took a drawing to James Houston I got so scared before I got to his house that I just ripped it up. But afterwards, when Ishuhungitok got ten dollars from him, I regretted that I had ripped it up. That was before I had a child. I have six children now and I have also adopted shuvini's baby, my granddaughter. Now that most of my children have grown up, I find it easier to draw because they can help me with the things that I have to do in the house.Yes, once I did keep one of my own prints to put up onmy wall, but it didn't have any frame so one of my children ripped it off. Today I have one with a frame which Wally framed, a print of a woman and a man jigging for fish with a lot of stars in the sky. After my drawing had been made into a print, I really liked the colours so I asked if i could have one of the prints. I also have a framed portrait that Joyce Weiland did of me this past Fall up on my wall.I like Peter Ragee's drawings; they are the only ones I really like because they are very realistic and very good. But my husband, Kiawak, likes his mother's drawings because thye are always so happy, never sad. Pitseolak is always making happy drawings. --------------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-------- 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.-------------BiographyBorn: March 16, 1941Community: Cape DorsetFemale - Drawing, Prints.Soroseelutu is married to the well-known Inuit sculptor Kiawak Ashoona, whose mother Pitseolak Ashoona helped develop Soroseelutu's talent. She is the grand-daughter of the artists Pootoogook and Ningeookaluk."If it weren't for Pitseolak, my mother-in-law, I don't think I would have ever learned to draw." - Soroseelutu Ashoona as quoted in the 1978 Cape Dorset print catalog. Her work has been exhibited around the world.Artist StatementIf it weren't for Pitseolak, my moher-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 latern 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 purpoe, I am drawing the same thing I have done before. I always have to add something to make it a little different. 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.When my husband, Kiawak, and I first came to Cape dorset, we lived in a very small house. At that time, it seemed such a big house, but today when I see it, it seems very small. I started drawing after we had moved here. The first time I took a drawing to James Houston I got so scared before I got to his house that I just ripped it up. But afterwards, when Ishuhungitok got ten dollars from him, I regretted that I had ripped it up. That was before I had a child. I have six children now and I have also adopted shuvini's baby, my granddaughter. Now that most of my children have grown up, I find it easier to draw because they can help me with the things that I have to do in the house.Yes, once I did keep one of my own prints to put up onmy wall, but it didn't have any frame so one of my children ripped it off. Today I have one with a frame which Wally framed, a print of a woman and a man jigging for fish with a lot of stars in the sky. After my drawing had been made into a print, I really liked the colours so I asked if i could have one of the prints. I also have a framed portrait that Joyce Weiland did of me this past Fall up on my wall.I like Peter Ragee's drawings; they are the only ones I really like because they are very realistic and very good. But my husband, Kiawak, likes his mother's drawings because thye are always so happy, never sad. Pitseolak is always making happy drawings----------------

Exhibitions

• Canadian Eskimo Lithographs: Third Collection, Presented under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of External Affairs Canada
• Cape Dorset Graphics *64/65, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *70, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *72, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *73, (annual collection)
• Cape Dorset Graphics *75, (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 *93, (annual collection)
• Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
• Demons and Spirits and those who wrestled with them, The Arctic Circle
• Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture, National Gallery of Modern Art
• Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and Paintings of Norval Morrisseau, Art Association of Newport
• Imaak Takujavut: The way we see it Paintings from Cape Dorset, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Images of the Far North, Studio Art Gallery, State University of New York
• Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
• Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
• Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints, University of Alberta
• Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
• Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Graphics from the Past, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry
• Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Inuit Women in Transition, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
• La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
• On the Land, The Arctic Circle
• Original Drawings by Nine Cape Dorset Women, Gallery of Fine Canadian Crafts
• Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
• Return of the Birds, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Return to Origins III, The Arctic Circle
• Sanasitit/Good Makers, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
• Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art, Canadian Arctic Producers and the National Museum of Man
• 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)
• The Beat of the Drum, The Arctic Circle
• The Cape Dorset Print, Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
• The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
• The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
• We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs

Collections

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