Judy Napangardi Watson History and Collections

History

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Judy Watson Napangardi, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 ICONIC, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2024 Great Warlpiri Colourists, Art Mob, Hobart
2023 Vividly Bold, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Tanami Today, Art Mob, Hobart
2022 Colour Pop, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Art Mob's 20th Birthday Exhibition, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 We Choose to Challenge, Coo-ee Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Colours of Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Beyond Time, Australian Aboriginal Art, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2019 International Women's Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Defining Tradition | the colurists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Land and Sky - Warlpiri Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
2017 Gems of the Stockroom, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2011 Thinking outside the square, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Stories from the Centre, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2008 True Colours, Ladner and Fell Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 Painting Country, Thornquest Gallery, Queensland
2004 New Works from Yuendumu, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Little Warlu, Big Stories, Hot Little paintings by Big artists of Yuendumu, Australia's NT & Outback Centre, Sydney
2004 Dreaming Stories, Indigenart, Perth
2004 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2004 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2004 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2003 Yimi Pirrijirdi - Strong Stories, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
2003 True Blue Christmas 2003, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2003 The Colours of Mina Mina, Judy Watson and Betsy Lewis, Raft Gallery, Darwin
2003 Kurruwarri Wirijarlu - Big Story, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
2003 Kurruwarri Pipangka - Designs on Paper, CDU Gallery
2003 Black and White. Colour. Seeing country in two ways, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2002 Warlukurlangu Collection, Parliament House, Canberra
2002 Warlukurlangu Artists Cooperative of Yuendumu, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seatlle USA
2002 Warlukurlangu Artists Cooperative of Yuendumu, One Union Square Lobby, Seattle, USA
2002 Onshore Art Barwon Heads Victoria
2002 New Works from Warlukurlangu, Indigenart, Perth WA
2002 Paintings from Yuendumu, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2002 Indigenart Perth
2002 Bellas Gallery Brisbane
2000 Wayuta, The Desart Janganpa Gallery, Alice Springs
2000 Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle
2000 Kurawari, Desart Gallery, Sydney
2000 Journey to the North West, Palya Art, Sydney
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2000 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2000 Marking the Paper, Desart Gallery, Sydney
2000 jangku yinyi, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne
1999 Mina Mina, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1999 International Women's Day Exhibition, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
1999 Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1998 Kurrawarri Kirli, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1998 Framed Gallery, Darwin
1998 Desert Designs, Perth
1998 Art Gallery Culture Store, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998 A Thousand Journeys, Tin Shed Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
1997 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995 SOFA, Miami, USA
1995 SOFA, Chicago, USA
1995 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Armstrong Gallery, Florida
1994 Echoes of the Dreamtime, Osaka, Japan
1993 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Northern Territory Art Award, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1993 CINAFE (Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition), USA
1993 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Adelaide Town Hall, (in assoc. with The Pacific Arts Symposium), Adelaide
1992 The Long Gallery, Hobart
1992 Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
1991 Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin
1990 Women's Exhibition, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne
1990 I.U.N.C. (showing at Hilton Hotel), Perth
1990 Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin

Awards and Recognition

2022 Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2007 Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine

Collections

  • Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Melbourne
  • Gordon Darling Foundation, Canberra
  • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide
  • The Henderson Family Collection, Sydney
  • Corrigan Collection, Sydney
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
  • Araluen Art Collection, Alice Springs
  • Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
  • Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, USA
  • Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
  • Artbank, Sydney