Born: December, 1929 Male E9-24
Resides: Sanikiluaq
Sculpture

Johnassie's wife Mina is also a sculptor.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1971 - 1973: Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1973 February - April: The Bessie Bulman Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1979 March - April: Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/ Dr. Harry Winrob Collection, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

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

1981 April - May: Sculpture from Belcher Islands, Images of the North, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

1981 June - August: Belcher Islands/Sanikiluaq, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1987 September - November: The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1987 December - 1988 February: Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, presented by L'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musée des Beaux-arts d'Arras, Arras, France (illustrated catalogue)

1988 October: Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man, presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club, Chicago, Illinois

1988 November - December: [Inuit Art Exhibition] Orca Aart, presented at Neiman Marcus, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

1989 February: Arctic Images: Major Sculptures by Canada's Leading Contemporary Eskimo (Inuit) Artists at D/Erlien Fine Art Limited, presented by Orca Aart, Chicago, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

1990 September - October: Recent Sculpture from Sanikiluaq, Albers Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

1991 June - September: Granville Island Canadian Inuit Sculpture Exhibition (second exhibition), Vancouver Inuit Art Society, Vancouver, British Columbia

1993 February: Kunstwerke der Inuit, Presented by CreARTion, Eppstein, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Studies at the Hotel am Badersee, Grainau, Germany

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canadian Eskimo Arts Council: SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.

Driscoll, Bernadette: THE INUIT AMAUTIK: I Like My Hood to be Full. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1981.

Swinton, George: SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: BELCHER ISLANDS/SANIKILUAQ. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery,
1981.

Winnipeg Art Gallery: SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.