Turkey Tolson Tjupurulla History and Collections

History


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Utopia Art Sydney turns 35, Utopia Art, Sydney
2022 Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together: 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Part 2, Kluge-Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA
2022 Australischer Salon, Michael Reid, Berlin
2021 SIGNIFICANT, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
2021 Voyage across Aboriginal Australia - Founders' Favourites, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Moitiers, Switzerland
2021 Papunya Tula: 50 years 1971-2021, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
2016 O Tempo Dos Sonhos, Arte Aborigene Contemporanea da Australia, Caixa Cultural, Sao Paolo
2010 Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2001-2004 Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, which toured Palazzo Bricherasio Turin, Italy; AAM Utrecht, Netherlands; Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, Israel; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2003 Big Country: Works from the Flinders University Art Museum Collection, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide
2001/2 Recounting the Essence of Life: Art from Australia, Kunstforum Herz- und Diabeteszentrum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
2001 Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art, Singapore
2001 Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark
2000 Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.
1999 Flinders Art Museum Flinders University, Adelaide
1998 Sztuka Aborygenow, (Art of the Aborigines), Warsaw, Poland 1997 Dreampower, Adelaide.
1995 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA
1995 Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
1993 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1993 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany
1993 Hayward Gallery, London
1992\3 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, toured the U.S.A
1991 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1991 Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1990 National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
1988 Expo 88, Brisbane
1988 Asia Society Galleries, New York
1985 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1985 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1985 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1982 Brisbane Festival
1981 Mr Sandman Bring Me a Dream, touring exhibition
1977 Nigerian Festival, Lagos, Nigeria

Awards and Recognition

1997 Turkey Tolson and Joseph Jurra Tkapaltjarri traveled to Paris to create a sandpainting as part of the exhibition 'Peintres Aborigenes d'Australie' at the Etablissement Public du Parc de la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris

Collections

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
  • Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
  • Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
  • Hudson River Museum, New York
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • National Gallery of Ethnology, Osaka
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • National Museum of Australia, Canberra
  • Papunya Tula Artists, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide
  • The Kelton Collection, Santa Monica, USA
  • Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton VIC