Yaritji Young History and Collections
History
Selected Solo Exhibitions2022 Yaritji Young: Yaaltjigka Ngayulu Ngaranyi | Where I Stand, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Ngura Kanpu - Strong Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Yaritji Young - From My Father's Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Yaritji Young and Tjala Arts, Olsen Gruin, New York
2018 Ngayuku ngura - My Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Yaritji Young: Walytjapitiku Laina - Family Ties, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Solstice: Winter Group Exhibition, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2023 Tjungkara Ken and Yaritji Young 'Sisters' Exhibition 2023, Harvey Galleries, Sydney
2023 Kungka Kungpu (Strong Women), Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland NSW
2022 Kungka Kunpu, Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Bowral
2022 Tjala Women: Nganampa Ngura Kurunjara (part II), Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2022 All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Earth Dreaming | Water Healing, Gallery One, Southport, at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort, Gold Coast
2021 Yaritji Young + Mitakiki Women’s Collaborative, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2021 Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters Travelling Exhibition, including The Box, Plymouth, England; Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany; Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France; Museokeskus Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland,National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2020 Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth
2020 Sydney Contemporary 2020, Sydney
2020 Artists of the APY Art Centre Collective 2020, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Manta Nganampa, Tjukurrpa, Pulkatjara - Stories from our Land, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2019-20 Before Time Began - Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland
2019 Milpatjunanyi, APY Gallery, Adelaide
2018 Nganampa Ngura Kurunjara - The Place of Our Spirit, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Sydney Contemporary 18 - presented by Alcaston Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018 Divided Worlds: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2018 Art of the APY Art Centre Collective, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017-18 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
2017 Yaritji Young: Walytjapitiku Laina - Family Lines, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Sydney Contemporary 17 / presented by Alcaston Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 Artists of the APY Lands, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Art of the Aeons | Paintings from the Great Sandy Desert, JGM Gallery, London
2016 Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2016 Nganampa Kililpil - Our Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, NSW
2013 Heartland - Contemporary Art from South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2011 Western APY Lands - Pro Community, ARTKelch, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Tjala Artists: Anangu maruku mulapa - This is our real way, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Tjala Men and Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Watiku tjukurpa pulka mulapa, munu Minymaku tjanpi; exhibition tjungu kupu - The men’s stories are very strong with the women’s tjanpi; a strong exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2009 A decade of Australia’s indigenous fine art 1999-2009, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff, VIC
2009 Kuru Alala - Eyes Open, National Touring Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2004 Looking after country: Manta Atunymankunytja, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2000 Irititja Munu Kuwaritja Tjukurpa - Stories from the past and present, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
Awards and Recognition
2023 40th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist2022 39th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist, together with Tjungkara Ken
2021 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney - Finalist
2021 Hadley's Art Prize, Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart - Finalist
2019 36th NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin - Finalist
2019 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2018 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist
2018 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2018 35th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2017 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2017 34th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2016 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Winner (Tjala Arts Collaborative)
2016 33rd NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2014 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist
2013 30th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2004 29th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award - Finalist
2004 21st NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
Collections
- Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Artbank, Sydney
- Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Singapore Art Museum, Singapore