Gigaemi Kukwits (b.1945) lives and works in Vancouver, BC and is of Coast Salish (Squamish Nations) and Kwakwaka’wakw heritage. His chiefly name was appointed in a Cedar Bark ceremony by his uncle Simon Baker and derives from his grandparents of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. At a young age, Kukwits’ trained under artists Douglas Cranmer, Mungo Martin and Mathias Joe. He briefly attended and studied at the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University of Art & Design) in 1967
Born in 1945. Lives and works in Vancouver, B.C
Education
1967 Vancouver School of Art (Now Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Exhibition History
2019
Material Art Fair, Booth B16, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
Neil Campell, Beau Dick, Gigaemi Kukwits, Walter Scott, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art
LA Art Show, Venice, California, US
2017
Physics, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
Kukwits’ Men (Father’s son), Gigaemi Kukwits & Zee Kwakwee Baker, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2016
Gigaemi Gigaemi Kukwits, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver, BC GIGAEMI KUKWITS, The Bakery on Franklin, Vancouver, BC