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Joachim & Joyce Kakegamic
Native Artists
Goyce was born in Sandy Lake, Ontario in 1948, his brother Joachim in 1952. The Kakegamic brothers began painting as teenagers under the guidance of their Ojibwa brother-in-law, Norval Morrisseau, and Cree artist, Carl Ray, after Morrisseau's successful Toronto shows. Jackson Beardy, Alex Janvier and Daphne Odjig also influenced the brothers.
Josh Kakegamic joined Morrisseau and Ray in the 1960s in demonstrating art in Ontario schools. An early showing of his work occurred in 1969 in North Bay, Ontario.Josh continued to paint in North Bay for two years and then returned to Sandy Lake. In the 1970s and 1980s, he took part in a number of exhibitions throughout Ontario, other sites in Canada, as well as on a group show Woodland Indian Art Exhibition at Canada House in London, England and Lahr, Germany. His painting, Days Work is from that time period.
A major exhibition took place at Toronto's Aggregation Gallery in 1977.
In 1993, while on a rescue mission, Josh was drowned in a lake in northwestern Ontario. His work is in private and public collections in Canada and abroad including Simon Fraser University Art Center, the McMichael Canadian Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum and others.
In the fall of 1973, after learning printmaking techniques at Open Studio in Toronto, Josh, Goyce and their brother Henry Kakegamic opened the Triple K Co-operative, a silk screening operation in Red Lake.
