Kudditji Kngwarreye History and Collections

History


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 Kudditji Kngwarreye | the enduring master, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2016 Singing Up Country - Kudditji Kngwarreye, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2016 Kudditji Kngwarreye - A master painter there is only one of him, Mandel Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Kudditji Kngwarreye, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2014 Earth + Sky, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Kudditji: Landscapes in the Family Tradition, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston
2013 Colours of Dreaming | Kudditji Kngwarreye, Mitchell Fine Art, Brisbane
2013 The Master Returns, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2011 Kudditji Kngwarreye, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2011 COLOURFIELD: new paintings, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Kudditji Kngwarreye, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Kudditji Kngwarreye, Palya Proper Fine Art, Alice Springs
2009 Kudditji Kngwarreye: Pastels, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2008 My Country, Kudditji Kngwarreye, Central Art, Alice Springs
2008 30 Emu Dreamings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2008 My Country, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2006 Masterwork, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
2006 My Country, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2006 Two Fields, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Waterhole Aboriginal Art, Danks Street, Sydney
2005 New Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Colours in Country, Art Mob, Hobart
2004 My Country, New Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 My Country, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2004 Waterhole Aboriginal Art, Sofitel Wentworth Hotel Exhibition, Sydney
2003 New Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
1999 New Paintings, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
1992 Tjukurrpa, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland
1991 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Desert Legends | Ronnie + Kudditji, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2024 Fire & Water, Japingka Gallery, Freemantle
2024 Utopia in Coulours, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
2023 Emily & Others | Geniuses from Utopia, Art Mob, Hobart
2023 Utopia in Colours, Musee de l'art aborigene australien, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
2023 Vividly Bold, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2023 Survey, Works from the Dalrymple Community Cultural Centre Trust Collection, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville QLD
2023 Top 20 of 2022, Art Mob, Hobart
2022 Desert Colours 2022, Honey Ant Gallery, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby/Sydney
2022 Nations 2022, Art Mob, at the Henry Jones Art Hotel Packing Room, Hobart
2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Colour Pop, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Utopia in Detail, Cooee Gallery, Redfern
2022 Palya - a tribute to Steve Ariston, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Gillian and Watson McAllister Collection, Cooee Art, Bondi
2021 Private Collection | Private View: One Collector's Passion & Soul, Cooee Art, Redfern
2021 Across the Top 2021, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Voyage across Aboriginal Australia - Founders' Favourites, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Moitiers, Switzerland
2021 Desert Colours 2021, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2021 Top Ten Artists 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2021 Big Names Little Paintings, Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney
2020 Colours of Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Kudditji Kame Kngwarreye & Idris Murphy, Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Still in the Desert, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Top Ten - Our Most Popular Artists 2019, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Blue July, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Small Things from the Desert, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Defining Tradition | the colourists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Large Showroom; Large Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Spirit of Place - Amanda Westley & Kudditji Kngwarreye, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2018 Welcome TWO (Thompson Street), FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 Gems from the Stockroom, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2016 Spoilt for Choice - a director's choice exhibition, Kate Gwen Gallery, Sydney
2015 Signs and Traces, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Cultural Institute Zamek, Poznan
2015 From the Vaults - highlights from the Collectors Gallery, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2014 Vast Interiors, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2012 The Colourists: Kudditji Kngwarreye and Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2013 Sky and Desert, Foundation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers
2010 Stories from the Centre, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Utopia: Eastern Anmatyerre Artists, Neo Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Size Matters, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2009 Aboriginal Art, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2009 Reves Aborigenes, Musee Arts et Histoire de Bormes-Les-Mimosas, Bormes-Les-Mimosas
2008 From the Air, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Black & White: Inspired by Landscape, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2006 New Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005 Fresh from the Central Desert, Canberra Grammar School, Canberra
2004 Two Senior Men, Art Mob Gallery, Hobart
2004 Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago
2004 Heartbeat - Living Country, Wenthworth Hotel, Sydney
2004 Spirit of Colour, Depot Gallery, Sydney
2002 The Contemporaries, Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
2000 Mia Mia, Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melboure
1999 Chapel Off, Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Tjukurrpa, Museum fur Voelkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland
1991 Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1990 Art Dock, Contemporary Art from Australia, Noumea, New Caledonia

Awards and Recognition

2022 Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

Collections

  • Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
  • Macquarie University, NSW
  • Guilleman and Sordello Collection, France
  • R. M. Barokh Antiques, Los Angeles, USA
  • Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
  • Sarrita King Collection
  • Corrigan Collection, Sydney
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
  • Gillian & Watson McAllister Collection, Sydney
  • Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
  • Jacqui McPhee Collection, Perth
  • Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
  • Dalrymple Community Cultural Centre Trust Collection, Charters Towers QLD
  • Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Motiers, Switzerland
  • Artbank, Sydney