She started painting as a child, under the guidance of Alexander Bercovitch, achieving a Honourable
Mention at the Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibition at age eleven.

She later graduated from the Parson's School of Design in New York City with a post-graduate scholarship.
She also studied at the American Artists' School, The Art Students' League, and with the painter
Moses Soyer.

Worked with Albert Dumouchel in Graphics at the École des Beaux Arts, Montreal, under a Canada
Council Senior Fellowship in 1961-1962.

First major sale, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth feels, was to A.Y. Jackson, and her first major public gallery sale
was her painting "Backyard" to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1949.

AWARDS

Canada, Governor General Awards for the Arts 2000.
Canadian Centennial Medal.
Canada Council Senior Fellowship.
Canada Council Purchase Awards.
Hadassah Art Auction.
1975 Purchase Prize and Best Graphic Image Awards of the Ontario Society of Artists.
Purchase award From the Art Gallery of Brandt, Brantford, Ontario.
Ninth Annual Award for the Arts, I.J. Segal Fund.
The Monsanto Certificate of Merit, Living Nature 86 prize.
Explorations grant from the Canada Council in 1987.

MEMBERSHIPS

The Royal Canadian Academy.
Conseil Quebecois de l'estampe.
Vice-chairperson of the Canadian government's Commission on the Status of the Artist.
Atelier Circulaire.
Conseil d'Administration des Amis du Museé d'art contemporain de Montreal, Canada.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sir George Williams College, Canada.
Concordia University, Canada.
The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada.
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Nova Scotia College of Art.
Mount St Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Arts Sutton Canada.
Ontario College of Art Canada.
Vermont Studio, Vermont, USA.
John Abbott College, Canada.
Ottawa School of Art, Canada.
Art critic for the CRC.

REPRESENTATION 

La Guilde Graphique in Montréal, Canada.
Galerie Jean-Pierre Borduas, Montréal, Canada.
Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, Canada.
Galerie Linda Verge, Quebec City, Canada.
Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Canada.
Eclectica Gallery, Kingston, Canada.
Galerie 007 in Bochum, Germany.

VARIETY OF MEDIA

Painting, drawing, etching, and lithography.

SUBJECT MATTER

The prolific artist is a very personal view of her life experience. Images 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.

She passed away 2006.