Emily kame kngwarreye biography of william
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney
2021 SIGNIFICANT, D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
2021 Voyage across Aboriginal Australia – Founders’ Favourites, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Moitiers, Switzerland
2021 The Women’s Show | 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2021 We Choose to Challenge, Coo-ee Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
2021 Big Names Little Paintings, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 From Little Things Big Things Grow, Kluge-Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2020 Desert Painters of Australia – Two Generations, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 Colours of Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Know My Name – Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2020 Important Australian Paintings, Philipp Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2020 Still in the Desert, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Reflections on Emily and Papunya, High Line Nine Galleries, New York
2020 Mapa Wiya (Your Map’s Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Fondation Opale, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
2020 Knowing my Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
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Julius Bokor
Dale Jones-Evans
Lily Kngwarreye
Lily Kngwarreye
Judy Watson
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