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Biography - Dorothy Napangardi

Born c. 1956, Tanami Desert, NT
Region Tanami Desert, NT
Community Yuendumu
Outstation Pikilyi
Language Warlpiri
Social affiliation Napangardi Subsection

Solo Exhibitions

2005 Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Mina Mina, My Country,” Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Dancing Up Country; the work of Dorothy Napangardi.” Asia Tour. Asialink in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art tour to Vietnam Fine Art Museum in Hanoi and the National Art Gallery, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
“Mina Mina – My Country”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Mina Mina, My Country,” Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Dancing Up Country; the work of Dorothy Napangardi.” Asia Tour. Asialink in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art tour to Vietnam Fine Art Museum in Hanoi and the National Art Gallery, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
2002-03 “Dancing Up Country; the work of Dorothy Napangardi,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2002 “Kana-kurlangu,” Gallery Gondwana at the Depot Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2001 “Dorothy Napangardi”, New Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Mina Mina,” Gallery Godwana, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
“Country After Rain,” The Darwin Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia
2000 “Recent Paintings by Dorothy Napangardi,” Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Dorothy Napangardi,” Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1999 “Recent works by Dorothy Napangardi,” Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Treading Softly,” Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“My Country - Journey of our Ancestors,” Ancient Early Indigenous Art, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
1998 “Napangardi Dreaming - Ceremony and Song,” Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Group Exhibitions

2004 “Ngati Jinta (One Mother),” Dorothy Napangardi and daughters: Julie Nangala Robinson and Sabrina Nangala Robinson. Gallery Gondwana at the Depot Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2003 “Indecorous Abstraction 2,” New Contemporaries Gallery, QVB, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
“Collectors Show,” Gallery Gondwana at the Depot Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2002 Melbourne ArtFair 2002, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Indecorous Abstraction - Contemporary Women Painters,” Light Sq. Gallery AIT ARTS Adelaide, South Australia
“Native Title Business, Contemporary Indigenous Art” National Traveling Exhibition, Gurang Land Council (Aboriginal Corporation), Queensland, Australia
“One Mother,” Dorothy Napangardi and Sabrina Nangala, Gallery Godwana, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 31st Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
“Masterwork,” Vivien Anderson Gallery, Victoria, Australia
“18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,” Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
“Dreamtime - The Light and the Dark,” Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
“alice.fitzroy@af,” Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
2000-01 “The Art of Place Exhibition,” Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
2000 “Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri & Dorothy Napangardi,” Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, United Kingdom
“Melbourne Art Fair 2000,” Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Dorothy Napangardi and Walala Tjapaltjarri,” Adelaide Festival, Gallery Australius, South Australia
“17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,” Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
“5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award,” Australian Heritage Commision, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
1999 “Painting the Desert,” Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“The Redlands Westpac Art Prize,” Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
“16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award,” Darwin, Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
“Recent works by Dorothy Napangardi and Walala Tjapaltjarri,” Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
1998 Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
“Warlpiri Women,” Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, Australia NT “15th TELSTRA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,” Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1991 “8th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition,” Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, South Australia
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
Queensland Museum, Queensland, Australia
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, LA, USA
The Kaplan-Levi Collection, Seattle, USA
The Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
The Erskine Collection, New South Wales, Australia
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, West Australia
The Australia Council Collection, Sydney
South Australian Festival Centre Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia
The Homesglen Institute of TAFE Collection, Victoria, Australia

Awards

2001 First Prize, 18th TELSTRA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1999 Highly Commended, 16th TELSTRA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1998 Northern Territory Art Award, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
1991 Best Painting in European Media, Museums and Art Galleries Award, Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia