Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Also know as: Ronny Patinga, Yuntantji, Jampijinpa, Djambidjimpa, Tjambitjimba, Tjampatjimpa
BIOGRAPHY
As a young man of almost 13, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa walked with his family out of the West Australian desert and settled into life in the tumultuous and crowded settlement of Papunya. It was the height of the assimilationist era as the Australia Government oversaw the movement of traditional nomadic people from their Pintupi homelands. In 1971, at the dawn of the Desert painting movement, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was in his late 20’s. After attending the European-style school in Papunya he returned to the Western Desert, went through initiation at Umari near his birthplace in the region near Muyinnga, about 100 km west of the Kintore Ranges, spent time in Yuendumu and then returned to live with his relatives in Papunya. There he worked as a police tracker, health worker, and labourer. His earlier tribal initiation into ceremonial knowledge along with his familiarity with country and sacred sites placed him in good stead when he began painting in his early thirties, under the tutelage of Old Mick Tjakamarra. As senior custodian of the Honey Ant Dreaming, Tjakamarra had played an instrumental role in initiating the Papunya art movement. Ronnie was one of the youngest men who began painting in the mid-1970s and his artistic output was initially small as he moved regularly between Papunya, Yuendumu and Mount Doreen Station. As the younger generation no longer lived in close proximity to their traditional homelands painting had become an important means for the older law keepers to pass on their knowledge of sacred sites. Ronnie, having been initiated, became an important participant and mediator in this process. The classic Pintupi style of linked concentric circles tells of a sacred geometry. It is derived from body paint designs, cartography of country, and ancestral narratives. A consolidating conformity existed between the older painters as they worked out the ground rules for telling the Dreaming while protecting sacred content. Being one of the youngest to begin painting, Ronnie began to demonstrate a more bold and expressionistic approach. Laborious, individual dots evolved into linked or ‘flicked’ dotting and a strong linear emphasis. Distinct iconographic features such as circles and U shapes were relinquished in favour of abstraction and the creation of a vibrant, painterly surface. These developments were encouraged by the return to tribal lands, facilitated by a change in government and Indigenous policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was a strong advocate for this outstation movement that was given impetus and partly funded by Papunya art sales. During this period, he travelled to Yuendumu, Balgo Hills and Mount Doreen encouraging as many people as he could to return to their traditional Pintupi lands. In 1983 he moved with his family to the small settlement of Ininti-Redbank, near Kintore, and stopped painting for a few years due to his political involvements. This included becoming chairman of the Kintore outstations council and his involvement in important claims for land rights. He had already pioneered new ways of interpreting his ancient visual language and soon returned to painting with new enthusiasm, describing politics as 'too much humbug'. The more focused environment of his own community fueled his distinct aesthetic preoccupation. In 1984 Tjampitjinpa won the Northern Territory Art Award. This became controversial when other contestants complained that Papunya art was folk art and not worthy of the ‘high art’ title, a strangely persistent attitude in some art circles at that time. The moment became an historic landmark when Judge Nancy Underhill upheld her decision defending his entry, Happening at Mt. Leibig, as genuine art and notably of the highest standard. Demand for Tjampitjinpa’s work grew and his leaning towards painterly abstraction was increasingly favoured and encouraged by the contemporary art market. He emerged as a leading figure, sustaining the boom in the national and international reputation of Aboriginal art during the 1990s. Ronnie's works first appeared in Papunya Tula exhibitions during the 1970s, and later in commercial art galleries in Sydney and Melbourne throughout the 1980s. He won the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1988 and this was followed by successive solo exhibitions at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989 and 1990. More than any other figure, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa can be credited with having forged a new artistic direction in embracing aesthetic minimalism, thereby freeing up further possibilities for the emerging generation of painters and challenging fixed perceptions of Western Desert art. His hypnotic designs explore interacting geometric shapes which emanate an eye-catching, pulsating action. Still infused with the Dreamings of his mythical Tingari ancestors, Tjampitjinpa refined the characteristic Pintupi simplicity of design, boldly scaling up fundamental pictorial elements, freeing them from their iconographic reference points and strongly emphasizing the distinctive repetition of line and form that has always infused Pintupi art with the spirit of their vast and ancient lands. From the mid-1990s, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa began painting for a wide array of dealers, only occasionally returning to work with Papunya Tula. Even though Ronnie frequently worked for other dealers, Papunya Tula organised solo exhibitions for him at Alcaston Gallery Melbourne in 1995 and Utopia Art Sydney in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2002. In 2004 he was elected Chairman of the company. His work has been included in major survey exhibitions in Australia and overseas - including a solo retrospective in 2015 at the Art Gallery of NSW - yet he has mostly eschewed the trappings of fame and fortune by dividing his time between working as a painter and performing his ceremonial obligations. Able to earn money wherever he goes, Ronnie is the quintessential modern nomad, familiarly known across a wide expanse of country as he constantly travels in his four-wheel drive with his spears tied on the roof.
Awards
2022 - Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 - The last Major Ronnie, presented by Utopia Art, Sydney, at Sydney Contemporary
2009 - Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
2008 - TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin - Finalist
2004 - 21st NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2002 - Wynne Prize - Finalist
2001 - Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
1998 - 15th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1996 - 13th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1995 - The 20th Annual Fremantle Print Award 1995, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle - Finalist and Highly Commended
1994 - 11th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1992 - 9th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1991 - 8th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1990 - 7th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1988 - Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs - Winner
2022 - The last Major Ronnie, presented by Utopia Art, Sydney, at Sydney Contemporary
2009 - Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
2008 - TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin - Finalist
2004 - 21st NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2002 - Wynne Prize - Finalist
2001 - Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
1998 - 15th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1996 - 13th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1995 - The 20th Annual Fremantle Print Award 1995, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle - Finalist and Highly Commended
1994 - 11th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1992 - 9th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1991 - 8th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1990 - 7th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
1988 - Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs - Winner
Exhibitions
2020 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: Special Edition Screenprints, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2019 – Tribute to a Master, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa NOW, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Earth. Fire. Water, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: 1987–2015, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Loud & Clear, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 – Bushfire, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2002 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: Aboriginal Lawman – Masterworks, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, IL, USA
1997 – Variations, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 – Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995 – Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: A Solo Exhibition, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1989 – Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 – Tribute to a Master, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa NOW, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Earth. Fire. Water, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: 1987–2015, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 – Loud & Clear, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 – Bushfire, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2002 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: Aboriginal Lawman – Masterworks, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, IL, USA
1997 – Variations, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 – Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995 – Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: A Solo Exhibition, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1989 – Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2026-2027 - The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
2025 - Contours, Mitchell Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2025 - Desert Icons: The Peter Speed Collection, Wentworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2025 - The Ancient Present, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2025 - An Exhibition of Private Treaty Works, D'Lan Contemporary, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Landscapes, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Desert Legends: Ronnie + Kudditji, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Black + White, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Tingari: Desert Men, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2024 - Indigenous Masterworks, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2024 - Talking Blak to History, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2023 - INTERSTELLAIRE, Fondation Opale, Lens/Crans-Montana, Switzerland
2023 - Pintupi Way, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2023 - Papunya Tula Artists Community XIV, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2022 - Fifty Years Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2022 - Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2022 - Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together: 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Part 2, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2022 - Significant 2022, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2022 - Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2021 - Director's Cut: 2021, Harvey Art Projects, Ketchum, ID, USA
2021 - 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Papunya Tula | Fifty Years, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2021 - Now & Then: Works from Papunya Tula Artists 1974-2020, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2021 - Papunya Tula: 50 Years 1971-2021, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Top Ten Artists 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Big Names Little Paintings, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 - Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2020 - Grounded: Masterworks from Indigenous Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Ketchum, ID, USA
2020 - Reflections on Emily and Papunya, High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY, USA
2020 - Linesmen, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2020 - Pintupi Masters: Enduring Dreamings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 - Director's Choice 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 - Crossings, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2020 - Framing the Landscape, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2020 - Papunya, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 - Beyond Time: Australian Aboriginal Art, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2019 - Large Showroom: Large Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2019 - Reverence, D'Lan Contemporary, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 - Lunar Legacy, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2019 - Desert Painters of Australia, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
2019 - Significant, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 - Pintupi Artists of the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2018 - Community IX, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - Welcome to Thompson Street, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2018 - Black and White, NG Art Gallery in collaboration with Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - 20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - Desert Prophets: Papunya Tula Artists, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA, Australia
2017 - Gems from the Stockroom, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 - A SWEEP Continues, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - A SWEEP: Old & New Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 - Along the Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - Tjugunutja: From Having Come Together, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
2017 - Important Australian Indigenous Art, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2017 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2017 - Papunya Tula Artists 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2016 - O Tempo dos Sonhos: Arte Aborígine Contemporânea da Austrália, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 - Landstract Abscape, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Cornucopia, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
2016 - The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Important Australian Indigenous Art, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2016 - St-Art, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Strasbourg, France
2016 - Outback to Abstract, Cooee Art and SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2016 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 - Wynners, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Community VII, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Painting from Papunya Tula Artists, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW, Australia
2015 - Collectible, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Papunya Tula Artists: Indigenous Paintings from Australia's Western Desert, Brumby Ute Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
2015 - Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Country & Western: Landscape Re-Imagined, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD, Australia; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 - Community VI, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2014 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 - Summer Show, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014 - New Pictures: Aboriginal Painting, Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen, Germany
2014 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 - Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
2013 - The Salon, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Painting Now, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Community V, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Papunya Tula Artists: Masters of the Western Desert of Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2013 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 - Art d'Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Barclays, Paris, France
2013 - George Tjungurrayi, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa & Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
2013 - All-Over Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2012 - Papunya Tula: Works on Paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
2012 - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2012 - Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
2012 - Desert Country, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
2012 - Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Classic Works from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Community IV: Celebrating Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2012 - Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2012 - Art Gent, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Ghent, Belgium
2012 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 - Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2011 - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - 40 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Up Close and Personal: Works from the Collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Papunya Tula Artists: Community III, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Desert Country, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD, Australia; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC, Australia; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley, WA, Australia
2011 - Recent Pintupi Works, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2011 - Pintupi Trails 2011, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Living Water, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Aboriginal Art 2011, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
2011 - land.spirit.song, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2011 - Celebrating 40 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - Museum III, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
2010 - Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2010 - Papunya Tula Artists: Community, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara: Belonging to One Country, ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2010 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2010 - Wilkinkarralakutu: Journeys to Lake Mackay, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
2010 - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
2010 - Aboriginal Art 2010, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2009 - Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - Nganana Tjungurrayi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja: We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming, East Galleries, New York, NY, USA
2009 - Community: The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2009 - Papunya 2009: Senior Pintupi Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2009 - Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2009 - Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjana: Same Stories, A New Way, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2009 - Size Matters, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - The Dreamers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - From the Air, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2008 - Aboriginal Art 2008, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2008 - 20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - Pairs of Paintings, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka: Making Strong Paintings at Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2008 - Kintore to Kiwirrkurra: Papunya Tula Artists, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2008 - Pintupi Art 2008, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2008 - Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2008 - Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2007 - Travels of the Tingari: New Pintupi Works from the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2007 - Papunya Tula 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2007 - Recent Paintings 2007, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
2007 - The Black and White Show, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2007 - Pintupi: Mixed Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2007 - Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2006 - A Particular Collection, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - PTA, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Bits and Pieces: Abstract Art, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Pintupi Dreamtime, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 - Yawulyurru Kapalilu Palyara Nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2006 - Papunya Tula Artists: Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin, NT, Australia
2006 - Pintupi Art 2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW, Australia
2006 - Pintupi, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
2006 - Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW, Australia
2006 - Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
2006 - Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Oceanic Art, Galerie DAD, Paris, France
2005 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists: New Work for a New Space, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2005 - Museum II, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Strong and Stately, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 - New Works from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA, Australia
2005 - Smoke: Campfire Group and Other Commissioned Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2004 - Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2004 - All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2004 - Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2004 - Binocular: Looking Closely at Country, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2004 - Aboriginal Art 2004, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Ma Yungu / Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2004 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2004 - Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Spirit & Vision, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Australian Aboriginal Art Collectors Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - 21st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
2004 - Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
2004 - EXPLAINED: A Closer Look at Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2004 - Art Paris, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2004 - Art Event, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Grand Palais, Lille, France
2003 - Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 - Ab Op II, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 - Papunya Tula Masters, Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 - Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2003 - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2003 - Pintupi Art from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA, Australia
2003 - Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, UK
2003 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2003 - Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2002 - The Year in Review, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 - Indigenous Works on Paper, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, NSW, Australia
2002 - Crossroads: The Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Prints, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2002 - Lines II, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2002 - Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 - Art Paris, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2001 - Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Vienne, Vienne, France
2001 - Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2001 - Art of Pintupi, Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2001 - Kintore, Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2001 - Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2001 - Dreamscapes: Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2001 - Art Aborigène, Musée Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 - Papunya: Works from the 1980s, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2001 - Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2001 - Indigenous Highlights from the State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
2001 - Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
2001 - Aboriginal Art Select Works, Kozminsky Gallery & Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Papunya Tula Artists NOW, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Aboriginal Art Select Works, Kozminsky Gallery & Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Spring Exhibition, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2000 - Pintupi Men, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2000 - Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2000 - Landscape, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Arts d'Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Renault, Paris, France
1999 - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
1999 - Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1999 - Spirit Country, San Francisco, CA, USA, touring exhibition
1999 - Ab Op, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1999 - Crossroads: Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Artists, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1999 - Northern Territory Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1999 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1999 - Australie – Art, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / J.L. Amsler-Bastille, Paris, France
1998 - Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998 - Nineteen Ninety Eight, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1998 - 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1998 - New World Art Gallery, Hattem, Netherlands
1998 - Art Gallery Kunsthuys, Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands
1998 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998 - Jinta Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 - Propositions Australiennes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, France
1997 - Pintupi Painters, Papunya Tula Artists’ Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1997 - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1997 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1997 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1997 - L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Brussels, Belgium
1997 - L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers, France
1996 - Twenty Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1996 - Voices of the Earth, Jehangir Nicholson Museum, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, India; Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India
1996 - Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1996 - New Paint New Work, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Contemporary Abstract Aboriginal Art, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Imagining the Real: Recent Acquisitions from the Parliament House Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 - Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 - The Gesture, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1995 - 20th Annual Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia
1995 - Works on Paper, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995 - International Works on Paper Fair, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1994 - ACAF 4, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 - Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1994 - Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 - Dreamings – Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
1994 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1994 - 11th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1994 - Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1993 - Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga, Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach, QLD, Australia
1993 - Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
1993 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1993 - After the Field, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1993 - After the Field, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, NSW, Australia
1993 - Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, touring exhibition, Australia
1993 - Chandler Coventry: A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
1993 - Aratjara: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993 - Aratjara: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1993 - Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia
1992 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1992 - Nineteen Ninety Two New Work, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1992 - Crossroads Toward a New Reality, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1992 - ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1992 - Aboriginal Art from the Desert, State Ethnographic Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; Byelorussian State Museum of Art, Minsk, Belarus
1992 - Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1991 - The Pintupi, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - The Painted Dream, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; National Art Gallery and Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
1991 - Desert Paintings, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - Long Hot Summer, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1991 - Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
1991 - Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Museum of Ethnographic Art, St Petersburg, Russia
1991 - Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1991 - Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1990 - National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
1990 - The Last Show 1990, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1990 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venice, Italy
1990 - Paintings from the Desert: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, TAS, Australia
1990 - Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1989 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1989 - Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1988 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1988 - Dreamings, Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988 - Papunya Tula, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
1988 - Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St Louis, MO, USA
1988 - EXPO 88, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1988 - Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1988 - Ageless Art, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1987 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1986 - Roar Studios, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1986 - Gallerie Düsseldorf, Perth, WA, Australia
1985 - The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1983 - Papunya, Aboriginal Paintings from the Centre, Mori Gallery touring exhibition, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1983 - Roar Studios, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1982 - Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1982 - Georges Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1981 - The Anvil Gallery, Albury, NSW, Australia
1977 - The Nigeria Festival
1975 - The Auckland Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
1975 - Argyle Art Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1974 - Aboriginal Art from Papunya, The Anvil Gallery, Albury, NSW, Australia
2025 - Contours, Mitchell Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2025 - Desert Icons: The Peter Speed Collection, Wentworth Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2025 - The Ancient Present, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2025 - An Exhibition of Private Treaty Works, D'Lan Contemporary, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Landscapes, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Desert Legends: Ronnie + Kudditji, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Black + White, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2024 - Tingari: Desert Men, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2024 - Indigenous Masterworks, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2024 - Talking Blak to History, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2023 - INTERSTELLAIRE, Fondation Opale, Lens/Crans-Montana, Switzerland
2023 - Pintupi Way, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2023 - Papunya Tula Artists Community XIV, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2022 - Fifty Years Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2022 - Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2022 - Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together: 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Part 2, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2022 - Significant 2022, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2022 - Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2021 - Director's Cut: 2021, Harvey Art Projects, Ketchum, ID, USA
2021 - 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Papunya Tula | Fifty Years, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2021 - Now & Then: Works from Papunya Tula Artists 1974-2020, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2021 - Papunya Tula: 50 Years 1971-2021, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Top Ten Artists 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 - Big Names Little Paintings, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 - Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2020 - Grounded: Masterworks from Indigenous Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Ketchum, ID, USA
2020 - Reflections on Emily and Papunya, High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY, USA
2020 - Linesmen, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2020 - Pintupi Masters: Enduring Dreamings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 - Director's Choice 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 - Crossings, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2020 - Framing the Landscape, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2020 - Papunya, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 - Beyond Time: Australian Aboriginal Art, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2019 - Large Showroom: Large Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2019 - Reverence, D'Lan Contemporary, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 - Lunar Legacy, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2019 - Desert Painters of Australia, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
2019 - Significant, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2019 - Pintupi Artists of the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2018 - Community IX, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - Welcome to Thompson Street, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2018 - Black and White, NG Art Gallery in collaboration with Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - 20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 - Desert Prophets: Papunya Tula Artists, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA, Australia
2017 - Gems from the Stockroom, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 - A SWEEP Continues, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - A SWEEP: Old & New Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 - Along the Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2017 - Tjugunutja: From Having Come Together, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
2017 - Important Australian Indigenous Art, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2017 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2017 - Papunya Tula Artists 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2016 - O Tempo dos Sonhos: Arte Aborígine Contemporânea da Austrália, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 - Landstract Abscape, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Cornucopia, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
2016 - The Last Hurrah, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Important Australian Indigenous Art, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2016 - St-Art, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Strasbourg, France
2016 - Outback to Abstract, Cooee Art and SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2016 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2016 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 - Wynners, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Community VII, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Painting from Papunya Tula Artists, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW, Australia
2015 - Collectible, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Papunya Tula Artists: Indigenous Paintings from Australia's Western Desert, Brumby Ute Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
2015 - Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Country & Western: Landscape Re-Imagined, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD, Australia; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015 - Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 - Community VI, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2014 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 - Summer Show, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014 - New Pictures: Aboriginal Painting, Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen, Germany
2014 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 - Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
2013 - The Salon, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Painting Now, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Community V, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2013 - Papunya Tula Artists: Masters of the Western Desert of Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2013 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 - Art d'Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Barclays, Paris, France
2013 - George Tjungurrayi, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa & Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
2013 - All-Over Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2012 - Papunya Tula: Works on Paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
2012 - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2012 - Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
2012 - Desert Country, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
2012 - Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Classic Works from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Community IV: Celebrating Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 - Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2012 - Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2012 - Art Gent, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Ghent, Belgium
2012 - Art Elysées, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 - Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 - Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2011 - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - 40 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Up Close and Personal: Works from the Collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Papunya Tula Artists: Community III, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 - Desert Country, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD, Australia; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC, Australia; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley, WA, Australia
2011 - Recent Pintupi Works, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2011 - Pintupi Trails 2011, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Living Water, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Aboriginal Art 2011, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011 - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
2011 - land.spirit.song, Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA
2011 - Celebrating 40 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - Museum III, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - KIAF 2010, Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
2010 - Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2010 - Papunya Tula Artists: Community, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2010 - Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara: Belonging to One Country, ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2010 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2010 - Wilkinkarralakutu: Journeys to Lake Mackay, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
2010 - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, NT, Australia
2010 - Aboriginal Art 2010, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2009 - Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - Nganana Tjungurrayi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja: We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming, East Galleries, New York, NY, USA
2009 - Community: The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2009 - Papunya 2009: Senior Pintupi Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2009 - Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2009 - Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjana: Same Stories, A New Way, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2009 - Size Matters, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2009 - The Dreamers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - From the Air, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2008 - Aboriginal Art 2008, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2008 - 20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - Pairs of Paintings, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 - Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka: Making Strong Paintings at Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2008 - Kintore to Kiwirrkurra: Papunya Tula Artists, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2008 - Pintupi Art 2008, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2008 - Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2008 - Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2007 - Travels of the Tingari: New Pintupi Works from the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2007 - Papunya Tula 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2007 - Recent Paintings 2007, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
2007 - The Black and White Show, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2007 - Pintupi: Mixed Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2007 - Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2006 - A Particular Collection, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - PTA, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Bits and Pieces: Abstract Art, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Pintupi Dreamtime, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 - Yawulyurru Kapalilu Palyara Nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2006 - Papunya Tula Artists: Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin, NT, Australia
2006 - Pintupi Art 2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW, Australia
2006 - Pintupi, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
2006 - Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW, Australia
2006 - Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
2006 - Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2006 - Oceanic Art, Galerie DAD, Paris, France
2005 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists: New Work for a New Space, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2005 - Museum II, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2005 - Strong and Stately, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 - New Works from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA, Australia
2005 - Smoke: Campfire Group and Other Commissioned Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2004 - Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2004 - All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2004 - Talking About Abstraction, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2004 - Binocular: Looking Closely at Country, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2004 - Aboriginal Art 2004, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Ma Yungu / Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2004 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2004 - Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Spirit & Vision, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Australian Aboriginal Art Collectors Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - 21st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
2004 - Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
2004 - EXPLAINED: A Closer Look at Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2004 - Art Paris, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2004 - Art Event, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Grand Palais, Lille, France
2003 - Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 - Ab Op II, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 - Papunya Tula Masters, Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2003 - Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2003 - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2003 - Pintupi Art from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA, Australia
2003 - Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, UK
2003 - Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2003 - Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2002 - The Year in Review, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 - Indigenous Works on Paper, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, NSW, Australia
2002 - Crossroads: The Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Prints, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2002 - Lines II, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2002 - Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 - Art Paris, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2001 - Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Vienne, Vienne, France
2001 - Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2001 - Art of Pintupi, Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2001 - Kintore, Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2001 - Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2001 - Dreamscapes: Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2001 - Art Aborigène, Musée Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 - Papunya: Works from the 1980s, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2001 - Dreamtime: The Dark and the Light, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2001 - Indigenous Highlights from the State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
2001 - Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
2001 - Aboriginal Art Select Works, Kozminsky Gallery & Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Papunya Tula Artists NOW, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Aboriginal Art Select Works, Kozminsky Gallery & Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Spring Exhibition, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2000 - Pintupi Men, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2000 - Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2000 - Landscape, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2000 - Arts d'Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Renault, Paris, France
1999 - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
1999 - Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1999 - Spirit Country, San Francisco, CA, USA, touring exhibition
1999 - Ab Op, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1999 - Crossroads: Millennium Portfolio of Australian Aboriginal Artists, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1999 - Northern Territory Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1999 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1999 - Australie – Art, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / J.L. Amsler-Bastille, Paris, France
1998 - Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998 - Nineteen Ninety Eight, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1998 - 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1998 - New World Art Gallery, Hattem, Netherlands
1998 - Art Gallery Kunsthuys, Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands
1998 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998 - Jinta Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1998 - Propositions Australiennes, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, France
1997 - Pintupi Painters, Papunya Tula Artists’ Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1997 - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1997 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1997 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1997 - L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Brussels, Belgium
1997 - L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers, France
1996 - Twenty Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
1996 - Voices of the Earth, Jehangir Nicholson Museum, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, India; Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India
1996 - Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1996 - New Paint New Work, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Contemporary Abstract Aboriginal Art, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Imagining the Real: Recent Acquisitions from the Parliament House Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 - Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 - The Gesture, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1996 - Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1995 - 20th Annual Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia
1995 - Works on Paper, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995 - International Works on Paper Fair, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1994 - ACAF 4, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 - Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1994 - Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1994 - Dreamings – Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
1994 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1994 - 11th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1994 - Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1993 - Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga, Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach, QLD, Australia
1993 - Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
1993 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1993 - After the Field, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1993 - After the Field, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, NSW, Australia
1993 - Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, touring exhibition, Australia
1993 - Chandler Coventry: A Private Collection, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
1993 - Aratjara: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993 - Aratjara: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1993 - Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia
1992 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1992 - Nineteen Ninety Two New Work, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1992 - Crossroads Toward a New Reality, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1992 - ACAF 3, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1992 - Aboriginal Art from the Desert, State Ethnographic Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; Byelorussian State Museum of Art, Minsk, Belarus
1992 - Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1991 - The Pintupi, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - The Painted Dream, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; National Art Gallery and Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
1991 - Desert Paintings, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - Long Hot Summer, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991 - Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1991 - Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
1991 - Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Museum of Ethnographic Art, St Petersburg, Russia
1991 - Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1991 - Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1990 - National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
1990 - The Last Show 1990, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1990 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venice, Italy
1990 - Paintings from the Desert: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, TAS, Australia
1990 - Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1989 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1989 - Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1988 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1988 - Dreamings, Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988 - Papunya Tula, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
1988 - Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St Louis, MO, USA
1988 - EXPO 88, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1988 - Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1988 - Ageless Art, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1987 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1986 - Roar Studios, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1986 - Gallerie Düsseldorf, Perth, WA, Australia
1985 - The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1983 - Papunya, Aboriginal Paintings from the Centre, Mori Gallery touring exhibition, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1983 - Roar Studios, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1982 - Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
1982 - Georges Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1981 - The Anvil Gallery, Albury, NSW, Australia
1977 - The Nigeria Festival
1975 - The Auckland Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
1975 - Argyle Art Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1974 - Aboriginal Art from Papunya, The Anvil Gallery, Albury, NSW, Australia
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris
Donald Kahn Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Supreme Court of Northern Territory, Darwin
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Owen and Wagner Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
Kluge Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
British Museum, London
Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France
Artbank, Sydney
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown
Medibank Private Collection
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Flinders University
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
James D. Wolfensohn Collection, New York
Macquarie Group Collection
Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Moree Plains Gallery Collection, Moree
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier
Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen
Kaplan and Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
University of Wollongong
Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne
Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
The Luczo Family Collection, USA
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Museo Sa Bassa Blanca, Mallorca, Spain
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
Collection Edmund and Diana Hasche, Sydney
Peter Speed Collection, Melbourne
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton VIC
The Terence J Gilbert Collection of Aboriginal Art, New York
Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris
Donald Kahn Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Supreme Court of Northern Territory, Darwin
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Owen and Wagner Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
Kluge Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
British Museum, London
Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France
Artbank, Sydney
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown
Medibank Private Collection
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Flinders University
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
James D. Wolfensohn Collection, New York
Macquarie Group Collection
Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Moree Plains Gallery Collection, Moree
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier
Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen
Kaplan and Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
University of Wollongong
Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne
Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
The Luczo Family Collection, USA
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Museo Sa Bassa Blanca, Mallorca, Spain
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
Collection Edmund and Diana Hasche, Sydney
Peter Speed Collection, Melbourne
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton VIC
The Terence J Gilbert Collection of Aboriginal Art, New York
Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
Market Analysis
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa began to paint early in life and outlived most of his older contemporaries. He has enjoyed a long and fruitful career as a painter during which he has produced works in a variety of different styles. Apart from a small number of early boards from the early 1970s and generic Tingari paintings typical of the late 1970s and early 1980s, his distinctive trademark is bold geometric design. At their best, these works produced in the second half of his career, have a strength and power that commands attention while his lesser works seem stilted and repetitious by comparison. Although he painted before Bardon left Papunya, his best results have been for works created during the 1990s. This is quite the reverse of the other ‘Bardon’ artists. His early works are rare and do not share the visual strength of the early boards by many of the older men. While Ronnie has painted only occasionally for Papunya Tula since the mid to late 1990s it has been works with this provenance that have dominated his highest secondary market results. His top twenty sales have been for predominantly large works painted for private dealers and it is expected that major pieces like these will continue to increase in value, while his many minor works will languish. Ronnie’s offerings at auction have been voluminous with around 500 works offered for sale since they first appeared in 1995. His low clearance rate is due principally to his independence as an artist in a market where provenance was considered so important. Of his top ten results at the end of 2006 only one had come from a source other than Papunya Tula, however, by the end of 2009 results for non-art centre provenanced works had increased to four. The word results is underlined here as 4 of these results have been set for one single painting. [the following scenario is supposition on my part. I have no proof whatsoever of its veracity] But Kumpuralgna 1996 has appeared in four Menzies sales over a period of 9 years. This 364 x 153 cm work was commissioned by Kimberley Art in Melbourne from dealer Peter Van Groessen and featured a number of the artist’s most important themes. It was purchased first in November 2006 for $54, 000 (Lot 109) by a Rod Menzies buyers' consortium of which Menzies most probably retained 50% of the ownership. When resold in March 2008 it was reputed to have sold for just $60, 000. Now Menzies probably owned 25%! It appeared once more in 2010 and was recorded as having sold for $66, 000 and Menzies had most likely now divested himself of the work. Finally five years later, in 2015, it recorded the artist's second highest record price when it sold for $79, 773 netting the syndicate Menzies cobbled together a modest profit on their 'investment'. In 2013 one of Ronnie’s early boards, Ceremonial Dreaming 1972, displaced another 1972 board as his highest record for an early work which had stood since 1996. In what has been a rare occurrence, a not dissimilar work almost twice the size was offered for sale by Lawson~Menzies in May 2007. Carrying an ambitious presale estimate of $75, 000-95, 000 Ceremonial Dreaming 1972 had failed to find a buyer until a week after the auction when reportedly sold by private treaty for $50, 000. In 2017 his previous record was shattered when Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackey) fetched almost double the record of $79, 812 it had replaced. Sotheby's had last sold the work in 2000 for $63, 000 which was the record at the time. In 2017, after having enjoyed the work for over 15 years, the collector released the work to auction, making an extremely healthy profit. Then, in 2019, Ronnie's record was once again obliterated when Tingari Ceremonies at the Site of Pintjun 1989 sold for a whopping A$353, 169 including BP at Sotheby's New York Aboriginal art auction. This result more than doubled 2017s record-setting price of A$151, 280. Like most of his highest prices, this work was created at Papunya Tula for a major dealer in Gabrielle Pizzi. Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was and still is a highly successful artist in the primary market. His output was prodigious until 2012-2013 when his health began to deteriorate and began struggling to paint with small brushes. Until the last few years, his highest results hovered around $50, 000 with a steady decline in value after the $25, 000 mark. In recent years, we have seen his record doubled on a near-regular basis. These results continue to follow the familiar provenance and style model, even if the value has increased fivefold since 2002 (after which his top values plateaued for over a decade.) Evidence suggests that while his works are still available in the primary market, all but the very best will languish at auction. Ronnie, however, is a most important figure in the history of Western Desert painting. His works will continue to demand record prices well into the foreseeable future.
