Emily Kame Kngwarreye b. 1910

  • Artist
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient of awards such as the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship (1992), her work is recognised internationally and is included in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
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exhibited at
Crossroads Toward a New Reality
Place
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Crossroads Toward a New Reality
Place
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Date
2008
Place
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Description

THEN: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.arts.australia.or.jp/english/events/0802/emily/
exhibited at
Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
Date
2006
Place
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=141
exhibited at
Utopia: Ancient cultures/new forms
Date
1999
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Toured to Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, 1999.This exhibition focused on the artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye within the context of the Utopia community. The residents of Utopia adopted a technique from the Indian Ocean region not traditionally their own to create batik designs that incorporated traditional elements.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Utopia : ancient cultures, new forms. Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Holdings Ltd. and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, c1999
ISBN 0730936228

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere: paintings from Utopia
Date
1998
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Held at the QAG 20 February to 13 April 1998; AGNSW, 15 May to 19 July 1998; NGV 1999. A major retrospective of this artist’s work organised by QAG.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
QAG Annual report 1997-98

Exhibition Catalogue:
Neale, Margo, Emily Kame Kngwarreye : Alhalkere : paintings from Utopia. Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery ; South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan, 1998
ISBN 0646349299

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Fluent: 47th Venice Biennale exhibition
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

An AGNSW touring exhibition. Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
ISBN0731304039

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Venice, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fluent: Australian art from the 47th Venice Biennale
Date
1998
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description

Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TMAG annual report; AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
51 p. : col. ill., map, ports. ; 33 cm.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Mixed media
exhibited at
Women and Art
Date
4 August 1995 - 5 August 1995
Place
Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, NSW
Description

auction preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, auction held 6 August 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
A l'hombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers
Date
10 March 1995 - 28 May 1995
Place
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla , Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Aratjara - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Date
1993
Place
Dusseldorf, Germany
Description

ALSO: London, UK; Humleaek, Denmark; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
Date
1993
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aboriginal Art from Australia
Date
1992
Place
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1992
Place
Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

ALSO: 1991

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Date
1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert
Date
1991
Place
Union Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Description

ALSO TOURED: St Petersburg, Russia; Ukraine; Minsk, Byelorussia (Republic of Belarus); Riga, Latvia

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Date
1990
Place
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Picture Story
Date
1990
Place
Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1990
Place
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

ALSO: 1991

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1990
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description

two solo shows

Type
Exhibition
Abstraction
Date
1990
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Summer Project: Utopia Women's Paintings (the First works on Canvas)
Date
1989
Place
Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
A Summer Project: Utopia Women's Paintings (the First works on Canvas)
Date
1989
Place
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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