YUKULTJI NAPANGATI

Born circa 1971, Western Australia Lives and works in Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Shimmer, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia 2019 Yukultji Napangati, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY 2014 Yukultji Napangati, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Celebrating Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2018 Pintupi – Paintings From The Masters Of The Western Desert, Harvey Art Projects USA, Sun Valley, Idaho Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW (Winner) Primavera At 25: MCA Collection, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, New South Wales, NSW, Australia

2017 Community VIII, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Who’s afraid of colour, NGV, , Australia

2016 Landstract Abscape, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Tjukurrmanu Maru & Tjulkura – Dreaming In Black & White, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Marking The Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, Frost Art Museum, Miami; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; and Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada

2015 Papunya Tula Artists – Indigenous Paintings From Australia’s Western Desert, Brumby Ute Gallery, Aspen, CO 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Desert Mob 2015, Araluen Art Centre, , Northern Territory, Australia Annual Pintupi Exhibition’ Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Community VII, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 8th Asia Pacific Triennial Of Contemporary Art, Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2014 Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Summer Show, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, , Australia Salon des refusés, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Kiwirrkura Women, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Community VI, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2013 All-Over Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Crossing Cultures – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Travelling Through Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Painting Now – Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Language Of The Land, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Salon des refusés, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Desert Mob 2013, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Recent Works, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Community V, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Papunya Tula Artists – Masters Of The Western Desert Of Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID

2012 Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Harvey Art Projects USA, Sun Valley, ID The 37th Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Ancestral Modern – Australian Aboriginal Art The Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Musuem, WA 29th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Visual Rhythm, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia Desert Mob 2012, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Crossing Cultures – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH Tjukurrpa Ngaatjanya Maru Kamu Tjulkura - Dreaming In Black And White, ReDot Gallery, Singapore PTA 40th Anniversary Show, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AustraliaUnique Perspectives – Papunya Tula Artists And The Alice Springs Community, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Papunya Tula: Works On Paper, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2011 Art Karlsruhe 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany Revival in Small, Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany Papunya Tula Artists: Paintings from the Western Desert, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong,, Victoria, Australia Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 40 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Pintupi Art 2011, A P Bond Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Desert Mob 2011, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 2011 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia Pintupi Trails 2011, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Australia in Two Colours, Artkelch Collectors Lounge, Schorndorf, Germany Recent Pintupi Works, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2010 Aboriginal Art 2010, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

2010 Wilkinkarralakutu - Journeys To Lake Mackay, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Recent Paintings, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Community, Utopia Art Sydney, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging To One Country, ReDot Gallery, Singapore. Ngurrakutu - Going Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Papunya Tula Women's Art, Maitland Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

2009 Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka - Making Strong Paintings At Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Papunya 2009, Senior Pintupi Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, Kunstwerk, Ebergingen-Nussdorf, Germany Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, The Chan Building, Bennett Park Darwin, Australia 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award', Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Painting the Country, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory,

Australia Pintupi Women 2009, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, ArtBar71, Berlin, Germany Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja - We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NY Pintupi 2009, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Community - The Heart Of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, VDMA, Frankfurt, Germany Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany Nganampatju Kanpatja Winki, Nganampatju Yara Winkii – All Our Paintings, All Our Stories, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya – Same Stories, A New Way, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2008 Licht in der Wuste: Aboriginal Art aus der Central und Western Desert, Artkelch at Lichthaus Kirchner, Weinstadt Endersbach, Germany David Larwill and the Western Desert Artists, Stephan Wiess Studio, NY New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Papunya Tula Artists 2008', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair,' Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Ngurra yurru kulintjaku - Always remembering country', Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Pintupi Women, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 20 years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Pintupi Art 2008, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Kintore to Kiwirrkura - Papunya Tula Artists, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore

2007 Tiwa Ngurrara – Strangers?!, Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany Women’s Business, Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany Papunya Tula 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Survey - Group show of emerging artists’, Raft Artspace, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Parliament House, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Recent Paintings 2007, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Kiwirrkura Women, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Black And White Show, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Pintupi – Mixed Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2006 Across The Board, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australi Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Home Ground, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts - The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Right Here, Right Now: Recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia PTA, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory Australia Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Papunya Tula Artists - Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pintupi Art 2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Pintupi Dreamtime, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore A Particular Collection, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Yawulyurru kapalilu palyara nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

2005 New Ideas, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Primavera 2005, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Pintupi Art 2005, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia New Work For A New Space, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Living Legends of the Western Desert, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert, Anima Mundi Gallery, Lyons, CO Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2004 Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Papunya Tula Artists - 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Ma Yungu/Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2002 Next Generation - Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Aboriginal Art 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Art Born Of The Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Family, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2001 Musee des Beaux Arts et d’Archeologie de Vienne, France Papunya Tula 2001, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Pintupi Women From Kintore, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1999 Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015 “Papunya Tula Artists - Indigenous Paintings From Australia’s Western Desert’, exhibition catalogue, Brumby Ute Gallery, Aspen, CO

2014 ‘Highlights’ - Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Collection, Art Gallery Of South Australia

2012 Araluen Arts Centre, ‘Unique Perspectives – Papunya Tula Artists And The Alice Springs Community’, exhibition catalogue, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia Hood Museum of Art, ‘Crossing Cultures’ – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Hanover, NH ‘Sonic Spheres’, exhibition catalogue, TarraWarra Biennial 2012, Healesville, Victoria, Australia Seattle Art Museum, ‘Ancestral Modern’ – Australian Aboriginal Art The Kaplan & Levi Collection, exhibition catalogue, Seattle, WA

2011 ‘Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2011’ exhibiution catalogue, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia 'Pintupi Trails 2011', exhibition catalogue, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2010 ReDot Gallery, 'Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging To One Country', exhibition catalogue, Singapore, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, 'Wilkinkarralakutu - Journeys To Lake Mackay',

exhibition catalogue, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2010’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2009 Papunya Tula Artists, 'Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja - We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming', exhibition catalogue, New York, NY Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 'Pintupi Women 2009', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cross Cultural Art Exchange, 'Painting the Country', exhibition catalogue, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

2008 Cross Cultural Art Exchange, 'Ngurra yurru kulintjaku - Always remembering country', exhibition catalogue, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Ken McGregor, 'David Larwill and the Western Desert Artists', exhibition catalogue, Stephan Wiess Studio, New York, NY

2007 TogArt Contemporary Art Awards, exhibition catalogue, Parliament House, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

2006 John Gordon Gallery, 'Aboriginal Art 2006/2007', exhibition catalogue, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia Ryan J, ‘Land Marks’, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Primavera 2005: exhibition by young Australian artists', exhibition catalogue, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2005 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2005’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2002 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2002’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Artbank Griffith University Art Collection National Gallery of Victoria Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Toledo Musuem of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA Queensland Gallery Of Modern Art, Australia

AWARDS

2018 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2013 Highly Commended, Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2012 The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 2011 Highly Commended, Wynne Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia