Pantjiya Nungarrayi

DOB: c.1936
Born: GIBSON DESERT WESTERN AUSTRALIA

About Artist:
Pantjiya Nungarrayi was born in the bush near Haasts Bluff circa 1936, prior to the mission being established. Her first contact with Europeans was as a young girl, when she and her family met with men who were travelling by camel and distributing rations. During the latter part of the seventies Pantjiya lived with her family between The Kungkiyunti Outstation west of Haasts Bluff, and Papunya, before settling in Kintore soon after the community was established in the early eighties. She is the widow of George Tjangala, who was also an artist and an early shareholder of Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya has five sons and three daughters, one of her sons being Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa, who also paints for the company.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd. Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2000 Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2000 'Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2001 Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
2001 Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia.
2001 Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2001 Pintupi Women From Kintore, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2001 Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2002 Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Aust
2002 Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2003 Pintupi Art 2003', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
2003 Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melb, Aust
2003 Pintupi Art From The Western Desert', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
2004 Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2004 Ma Yungu/Pass It On', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
2005 Pintupi Women', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
2005 Papunya Tula - the next generation', Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2005 Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert', Anima Mundi Gallery, Lyons, Colorado, USA.
2006 A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2006 Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists', Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

COLLECTIONS:
Artbank.
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.