SIASSIE KENNEALLY Date of Birth: May 29, 1969 Male/Female: Female Place of Birth: Cape Dorset Mother: Mayoreak Ashoona Father: Kaka Ashoona Siassie Kenneally was born on May 29, 1969. She comes from a family of notable Cape Dorset artists. Her mother Mayoreak Ashoona has been a mainstay of the Cape Dorset annual print collection for many years and her father was the renowned sculptor, Kaka Ashoona. Her two cousins, Annie Pootoogook and Shuvinai Ashoona are well known contemporary artists. The three cousins have shown together on occasion. Siassie began drawing at the Kinngait Studios in the early 2000’s. Her striking iridescent print, ‘Fish Tails’ from the 2008 spring collection was a hugely admired etching/aquatint and she has displayed a remarkable faculty with the medium of oil stick on paper. Siassie tends to work on a large scale and her drawings are characterized by an intimate and contemporary approach to the depiction of traditional lifestyles. EXHIBITIONS: December 2006 – March 2007 Ashoona: Third Wave Art Gallery of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta June 2007 Three Cousins Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario Apr. – May, 2008 Leaving Deep Water Saw Gallery Ottawa, Ontario May 2008 9 Works by 7 Artists Dorset Fine Arts Spring release Nov – Dec., 2008 Breaking Ground: New Oil Stick Drawings from Cape Dorset Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario Oct 2009 – Jan 2010 Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue) September 2010 Landscape Drawing 2 Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Vancouver British Columbia Dec. 2011 – Feb. 2012 Women in Charge Inuit Contemporary Women Artists Museo Nazionale Preistorica Etnografica “Luigi Pigorini” Rome Italy (illustrated catalogue) October 2013 Toronto International Art Fair Metro Toronto Convention Centre Toronto, Ontario October - November 2013 The Hand of the Artist Feheley Fine Arts Toronto, Ontario REFERENCES Hernandez, Carlos Inuit Art from the Inside Out: Siassie Kenneally’s Male Fish Gut. FLLAC Off the Wall. Dec 16, 2013.