Represented by Utopia Art Sydney, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, NSW, 2017
Tel: 61 2 9699 2900 Fax: 61 2 9699 2988
Born: Alhalkere NT Lived and worked at Atneltyeye, NT
1992 Awarded Australian Artists Creative Fellowship
| 2008 | 'The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarre – Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarre', National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 'The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarre – Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye', The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 'The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarre – Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye', National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT | |
| 2007 | 'Earthly Reflections of Heavenly Things', The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, SA |
| 2006 | 'Ten Years On', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 2002 | 'Discomfort: relationships within Aboriginal Art', Fireworks Gallery, QLD |
| 'Emily'. Paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye from the Holmes a'Court Collection, WA | |
| 2000 | 'Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere: Paintings from Utopia' Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; National Gallery of Australia | |
| 'Women Painters of the Desert', Fireworks Gallery, Fortitude Valley, QLD | |
| 1997 | 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Looking Back', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 1996 | 'Emily Kngwarreye c.1910-1996', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT |
| 1995 | 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: The First Ochres', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, VIC |
| 'A New Expression' Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Emily Kngwarreye - Selected Masterpieces 1989-95 The Delmore Collection', Mary Place Gallery, NSW | |
| 1994 | 'New Directions', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 1993 | 'The Alhalkere Suite', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Recent Paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1992 | 'Alhalkere', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1991 | Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
| Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1990 | 'First Solo Exhibition', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| Coventry Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 2012 | Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 – 2011’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
| 2011 | Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 – 2011’, MCA at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney |
| ‘Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO’, Wollongong City Gallery, NSW | |
| ‘Remembering Forward’ Museum Ludwig, Germany | |
| ‘Gooch’s Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert’, Flinders University Art Museum and Riddoch Art Gallery touring exhibition, Moree Plains Gallery, Moree, NSW; Civic Hall Galleries, Port Lincoln, SA; Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD | |
| ‘Up Close and Personal: works from the collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 2010 | ‘Gooch’s Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert’, Flinders University Art Museum and Riddoch Art Gallery touring exhibition, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA; Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Moree Plains Gallery, Moree, NSW |
| ‘Museum III’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| ‘Remembering Forward’, Museum Ludwig, Germany | |
| ‘Desert Country’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA | |
| 2009 | 'abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre, Ada Bird Petyarre – more than stories', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| '5th Annual Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition', Shalom College UNSW | |
| 2008 | 'Australian Abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Melbourne Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, VIC | |
| 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre & Ada Bird Petyarre - more than stories', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Gooch's Utopia: collected works from the central desert', Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA | |
| 2007 | 'Turning 20', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 2006 | 'Dreaming Their Way - Australian Aboriginal Women Painters', National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
| 'Bits and Pieces - abstract art', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 2004 | 'Silk - Utopia Batiks from The Holmes a'Court Collection', Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA |
| 'Talking About Abstraction', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'The Women's Show', Vivien Anderson Gallery, VIC | |
| 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Maxie Tjampitjinpa - Classic Images', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 2003 | 'Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague', Toskansky Place, Czech Republic |
| 'Australian Art', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT | |
| 2002 | 'The Year In Review', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Structures of Difference', Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA | |
| 'Indigenous works on paper', Damien Minton Gallery, NSW | |
| 'Lines I', Fireworks Gallery, QLD | |
| 'A Way Through' The Sue and Ian Bernadt Collection, Aboriginal paintings by women artists, Central Tafe Art Gallery, Northbridge, WA | |
| 2001 | 'Museum', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light', Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Vienna | |
| 'Desert Flowering: Aboriginal Art from Private Collections', Manawatu Gallery, NZ | |
| 2000 | Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds', State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT | |
| 1999 | 'Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms', Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA |
| 'Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection', Auckland Art Gallery, NZ | |
| 'A Selection of Important Twentieth Century Australian Paintings', Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Rover Thomas', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 1998 | 'Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms', Galeri Petronis, Malaysia |
| 'Fluent 47th Biennale'. Touring: The Art Gallery of NSW; Drill Hall Gallery- Australian National University, Canberra; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery; Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. | |
| 1997 | 'Large Scale Painting from the Holmes a'Court Collection', Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA |
| 'What is Aboriginal Art?', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts - Sydney The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Fluent: La Biennale Di Venezia 1997', Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale | |
| 'Flagging the Republic', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| 'Nineteeninetyseven', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'The Eye of the Storm; Eight Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists' Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1996 | 'Voices of the Earth', Jehangir Nicholson Museum National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai; The Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India |
| 'Spirit and Place', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'The Eye of the Storm; Eight Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT | |
| 'Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Return from the Art Fair', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Contemporary Abstract Aboriginal Art', Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Aboriginal Australian Art', Seattle Art Museum | |
| 'Dots', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC | |
| 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky', Monash University Gallery, VIC | |
| 'The Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award', Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT | |
| 'The Gesture', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'This is my country. This is me', Seattle Art Museum Downtown, USA | |
| 'Utopia Women', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Flagging the Republic', Sherman Galleries; New England Regional Art Museum; touring exhibition, NSW | |
| 'Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1995 | 'Painted Dreams: Western Desert Paintings from the Johnson Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Creators and Inventors: 130 years of Australian Women's Art', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC | |
| 'Asia & Oceania Influence', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Pathways', Queensland Art Gallery, QLD | |
| 'Works On Paper', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| International Works on Paper Fair, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW | |
| 'New Works New Directions: Recent Acquisitions by the Chartwell Collection', Waikato Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, NZ | |
| 'Stories - a journey around big things', from The Holmes a'Court Collection, Germany | |
| '1995', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Emily Kngwarreye and Ian Fairweather', Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 1994 | 'Yiribana', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
| 'The Range', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'ACAF 4' , Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Identities: Art from Australia', Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan and | |
| Wollongong City Gallery, NSW | |
| 'The Body Paint Collection', Bishop Museum, Hawaii and tour, USA | |
| 'The Land', N.G.A. Canberra, ACT | |
| 'Desert Painting', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD | |
| 'Yiribana: An Introduction to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection', The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Ink Lines: Mapping the Printer', Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'This Land: A Celebration', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 1993 | 'Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings', Aboriginal Art From Central Australia 1971-1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA |
| 'Flash Pictures by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT | |
| Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide (1993-1994) | |
| Art Museum Armidale, Armidale, NSW | |
| Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD | |
| The Araluen Centre for Arts & Entertainment, Alice Springs, NT | |
| 'Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary | |
| 'Australian Art', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'After the Field .... A Contemporary Australian Abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, ACT | |
| 'Chandler Coventry a Private Collection' Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW | |
| 'Aratjara - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany and Hayward Gallery, London and Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek | |
| 'Scarf', Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Trevor Nickolls and Paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala and Rover Thomas', Hogarth Galleies, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a' Court Collection', Moree Plains Gallery, Moree, NSW | |
| 1992 | 'Crossroads Toward a New Reality', The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 'Bubbles, Baubles and Beads', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'ACAF 3', Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Aboriginal Art - Utopia in the Desert', Nogazaka Arthall, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 'Nineteen Ninety Two New Work', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'My Story My Country: Aboriginal Art and the Land', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert', State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Ukraine | |
| 'Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert', Byelorussian State Museum of Art, Minsk, Byelorussia | |
| 'Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert', Riga, Lativa | |
| 'Paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre and Ada Bird Petyarre, Utopia', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Aboriginal Art from Australia' The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1991 | 'Aboriginal Women's Exhibition', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
| 'Utopia Batik', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Flash Picture', Australian National Gallery, ACT | |
| 'Utopia', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Aboriginal Art & Spirituality', High Court, ACT | |
| 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Holmes a'Court Collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Images of Women', S.H. Ervin Museum, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'A Picture Story', Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Contemporary Aboriginal Painting', Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC | |
| 'Paintings from the Desert', Moscow | |
| 'Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn', Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA | |
| 'Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert', Union Gallery, Moscow, Russia | |
| 1990 | 'The Last Show', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Abstraction', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW | |
| 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art', Harvard University and touring the U.S.A. and Australia | |
| 'Painting from the Desert, Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, TAS | |
| 'New Acquisitions', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC | |
| 'ARCO', Madrid, Spain | |
| 'CAAMA/Utopia Artists in Residence Project', Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA | |
| 'ACAF 2', Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'Utopia Artists', Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC | |
| 'New Year - New Art', Utopia Art Sydney | |
| 'A Picture Story', Tandanya, Adelaide, SA | |
| The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland | |
| 1989 | 'Utopia Women', Coventry Gallery, Sydney in association with Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'Art from Utopia', Austral Gallery, St. Louis, U.S.A. | |
| 'A Summer Project', S.H. Ervin Museum, Sydney; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| 'Utopia Batik', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT | |
| 'Mythscapes', National Gallery of Victoria, VIC | |
| 1988 | 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art', Utopia Art Sydney, NSW |
| 'A Changing Relationship', S.H. Ervin Museum, Sydney, NSW | |
| 1977 - 1987 | Exhibited with the Utopia women in exhibitions in Australia and abroad |
| Allen, Allen & Hemsley | Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | Art Gallery of Western Australia |
| Artbank | Auckland City Art Gallery |
| National Gallery of Australia | Chartwell Collection, New Zealand |
| Coventry Collection | Donald Kahn Collection, Miami, U.S.A. |
| The Kasumi Co. Collection, Japan | Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, U.S.A. |
| National Gallery of Victoria | Queensland Art Gallery |
| The Holmes a'Court Collection | University of New South Wales |
| University of Sydney Union | University of New England |
| James D. Wolfensohn Collection | Benalla Art Gallery |
| Riddoch Art Gallery, S.A. | The Vatican Collection, Rome |
| K.L.M. Collection, Amsterdam | Kunst Der Aborigines |
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