This 2002 work by Yukultji Napangati already shows her exceptional strength and sophistication in depicting the landscape that has seen her being awarded the 2018 Wynne Landscape Prize. Perceived linear abstraction typifies Pintupi works that are, however, deeply entrenched in the landscape, sacred lore and ceremony. This particular work by Yukultji Napanagti represents the flora and the movement of the winds over the and hills of her sacred country.

It was in 1984 that the very last Pintupi family group walked in to Kiwirrkura from the desert having lived a completely traditional lifestyle up until then. Known as the Pintupi Nine, amongst them were the now renowned artists, Warlimpirrigna, Walala Tjapaltjarri, Yalti and Yukultji Napangati.

Yukultji has been a many times finalist in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2017, and 2018. She was awarded the Alice Prize in 2012, been commended for the highly prestigious Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Landscape in 2011 and 2013 only to take out the highest honour in 2018. 

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art

Griffith University Art Collection

Artbank

The Steve Martin Collection, USA

Beyoncé and Jay-Z Carter Collection

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA

The Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA

The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Salon 94 Bowery, New York, USA

2014 Utopia Art, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

2019

Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA

Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

2015

8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

The 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin

2013

Papunya Tula Artists: Masters of The Western Desert of Australia, Harvey Art Projects, Idaho, USA

Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Desert Mob 2013, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

2012

Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art, The Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Musuem, Washington, USA

Papunya Tula: Works On Paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Sonic Spheres: TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria

2011

Art Karlsruhe 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany

2005

Découvrir, Rêver, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris France