Ghitta Caiserman-Roth was born in Montreal She now resides in the heart of downtown Montreal. In 2000, she receives the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

She painted as a child, under the guidance of Alexandre Bercovitch, in Montreal, achieving an Honourable Mention at the Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibition at age eleven.

Ghitta was graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City with a post-graduate scholarship, having also studied, in this period, at the American Artist's School, the Arts Students' League and with the painter Moses Soyer.

She worked with Albert Dumouchel in graphics at the École des Beaux Arts, Montréal, under a Canada Council Senior Fellowship in 1961-1962.

She taught for many years at Sir George Williams College and Concordia University; the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal; summer schools of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, as well as at the Nova Scotia College of Art, Mount St. Vincent University, Nova Scotia; Arts Sutton; Ontario College of Art; Vermont Studio; John Abbott College; Ottawa School of Art; and others. She has been an art critic for the CBC and continues to give critiques to individual artists and education groups. She has lectured extensively in Canada and the United States.

Memberships include Royal Canadian Academy, Conseil des artistes peintres du Québec, Conseil québécois de l' estampe. She
is President of Atelier Graphia 3710 Inc., Montreal, and Vice-chairperson of Canadian Government's Commission on the Status of
Artists.

Her numerous awards include the Canadian Centennial Medal; Canada Council Senior Fellowship; Canada Council Purchase Awards; several Hadassah Art Auction awards; the 1975 Purchase Prize and Best Graphic Image Awards of the Ontario Society of Artists; a purchase award from the Art Gallery of Brandt, Brantford, Ontario; the Ninth Annual Award for the Arts, I.J. Segal Fund; and the Monsanto Certificate of Merit, Living Nature 86 prize. Explorations Grant (Canada Council), 1987.

Her works are part of prestigeous public and private collections: Air Canada; Alcan Aluminum Limited; The Art Bank, Ottawa; Bank Leumi, Israel, Montreal; Canada Council of Arts; Concordia University, Montreal; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown; Department of External Affairs, Ottawa; O.J. Firestone Collection, Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ottawa; Jewish Public Library, Montreal; Lethbridge Community College, Alberta; London Public Library and Art Museum; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Musée de Joliette, Québec; National Gallery of Canada; New York Life; NSC Lavalin; Ontario Department of Education; Ottawa City Hall; Pratt & Whitney, Montreal; Gouvernement du Québec, La collection prêt d'oeuvres d'art; Queens University, Kingston; Rare Book Department, McGill University; Toro College, New York, USA; University of British Columbia; University of Western Ontario.

Subject matter of this prolific artist is a very personal view of her life experience. Imagery of people, feelings, social concerns, landscape, interiors that often move from nature into symbol, and always an attempt to integrate medium, art language, and theme.

Artist's Statement

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