Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula History and Collections

History


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2022 Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together: 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Part 2, Kluge-Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA
2021 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2021 Lineage & Legacy, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2021 Papunya Tula: 50 years 1971-2021, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
2020 Crossings, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
2020 Pintupi Masters - Enduring Dreamings, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Director's Choice 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Defining Tradition: the first wave & its disciples, Kate OWen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Significant, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
2017 A SWEEP: Old & New Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2011 Origins of Western Desert Art: Tjukurrtjanu, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001 Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art, Singapore
1999 Tjinytjilpa, Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC, USA
1999 Flinders Art Museum Flinders University, Adelaide
1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , USA
1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1991 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, USA
1989 Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Mythscapes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1989 Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW
1982 London, England
1982 Georges Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Brisbane Festival
1981 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Awards and Recognition

1956 He was presented to the Queen, together with Nosepeg Tjupurrula, at Towoomba, Queensland

Collections

  • Hank Ebes Collection, Melbourne
  • Holmes a Court Queensland Art Gallery
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  • National Museum of Australia, Canberra
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
  • Alice Springs Law Courts, Alice Springs
  • Museum Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Donald Kahn Collection
  • Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
  • The Kelton Collection, Santa Monica, USA
  • Laverty Collection, Sydney
  • Araluen Art Collection, Alice Springs