Born: July 2, 1910 Male
Place of Birth: Lake Harbour
Died: 1985
Resided: Cape Dorset
Drawings, Prints, Sculpture

Father of Anirnik Ragee, Parnee Peter, Nicotai Simigak, and Simeonie Teevee, all Cape Dorset sculptors. Jamasie's wife Angotigolu (Drawings, Prints, Sculpture) died in 1967.

Bayat Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 Cape Dorset Graphics (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue)

1967: Eskimo Sculpture, Winnipeg Art Gallery, presented at the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1967: The Eskimo Art Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1967: Inoonoot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran Cape Dorset och Povungnituk, Konstframjandet, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)

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

1977 January - 1982 June: The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1978 March - June: The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1978 August: Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E., Lee Collection of Prints, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (illustrated catalogue)

1978 November - December: Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (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)

1979 March - April: Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative exhibition from the collection of Professor and Mrs. Philip Gray, Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State, University, Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A. (catalogue)

1979 March - May: Eskimo Narrative, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1979 May: Inuit Prints, University of New Brunswick, Long Gallery, St. John Campus, St John, New Brunswick (tour)

1979 July - 1980 May: Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1980 January - February: Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia

1980 January - March: Cape Dorset, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1980 April - May: The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit, Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1980 September - October: La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1981 April - 1982 March: Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1981 July - August: Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy (illustrated catalogue)

1981 October - 1983 January: Cape Dorset Engravings, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (tour)
(illustrated brochure)

1981 October - 1983 February: The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit, Print Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1982 June - October: Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario

1982 December - 1983 January: Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, presented at Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, Quebec

1983: Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional Life on the Land, Organized by the Arts and Learning Services Foundation Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (tour)

1983 February - March: Return of the Birds, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1983 May - 1985 April: Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1983 September - October: Inuit Survival, Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario, Presented at the University of Waterloo, Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario

1983 October - November: The Cape Dorset Print, Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

1983 October - December: Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario

1983 November - 1984 January: Inuit Art at Rideau Hall, Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, Ontario

1984 September - October: On the Land, The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1985 March - May: Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (illustrated catalogue)

1986 May: Premiere Exhibit of 1986, Page's Exclusive Eskimo Art, Agoura Hills, California, U.S.A.

1986 May - June: Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1986 November: Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry, Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1986 November - December: Cape Dorset Prints and Sculpture, McMaster Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

1987 May - June: Inuit Graphics from the Past, Arctic Artistry, Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1987 November: Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry, Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

1987 December - 1989 March: Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue)

1988 June - September: Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1989 January - April: Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989, McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario

1989 June - July: A New Day Dawning: Early Cape Dorset Prints, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1990: Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

1990 February - March: Inuit Drawings, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue)

1990 June - September: Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.

1990 November - 1991 February: Espaces Inuit, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, Quebec (illustrated catalogue)

1991 December - 1992 March: In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario (illustrated catalogue)

1992 February: The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980, Westdale Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

1992 March - April: Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery, Collection, McMaster Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

1993 November - 1994 January: Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue)

1994 March - August: Kunst aus der Arktis, Völkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (illustrated catalogue)

1994 July: Arctic Spirit - 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1973 November: [Jamasie Teevee] Fleet Galleries, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1974 August: Prints and Drawings by Jamasie, Inukshuk Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario

1981 June: Jamasie Retrospective, Canadiana Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
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
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

1973 Received a Canada Council grant to travel to Winnipeg to attend the opening of an exhibition of his works at Fleet Galleries.

1976 His image Animals and Man was part of a portfolio that was commissioned for presentation to the participants in the United Nations Habitat Conference held in Vancouver in 1976.

1979 Commissioned by Theo Waddington to produce a limited edition portfolio of six prints.

ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.

Baele, Nancy: INUIT ART: A new show comes to the National Gallery. Ottawa Citizen, January 13, 1989.

Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Dev. INUNNIT: The Art of the Canadian Eskimo = L'art des Eskimaux du Canada. / by W. T. Larmour. French translation by Jacques Brunet. Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1967.

Hassler, Gitta: KUNST AUS DER ARKTIS: GRAPHIKEN DER INUIT IN KANADA. Zurich: Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich, 1994.

Jackson, Marion E.: CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1987.

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.

Speak, Dorothy: IN CAPE DORSET WE DO IT THIS WAY. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 38-42.