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Wintjiya was born at Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore Community, circa 1930, and she is the second wife of Turkey Tolson's father. She later moved to Haasts Bluff with her husband and then to Papunya Community when it was established. She participated in the Kintore/Haasts Bluff joint project, which was the beginning of her career, but now paints for Papunya Tula. In 1999, Wintjiya contributed to the Kintore Women's Painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 - Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2006 - 'Wintjiya Napaltjarri', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 - 'Wintjiya Napaltjarri', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1995 - Haasts Bluff/Kintore Project, Tandaya, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1996 - Heritage Art Award, Canberra, A.C.T, Australia
1996 - 'Dots', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1996 - C.A.A.A.C.E., Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1996 - Museums and Art Galleries of the N.T., Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1996 - Utopia Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1997 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 - Utopia Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1999 - 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Paintings', Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
1999 - N.T Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1999 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2000 - Papunya Tula, 'Genesis and Genius', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000 - Framed gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2000 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 - 'Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., 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 - 'Two Sisters: Tjunkiya And Wintjiya Napaltjarri', Utopia Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2001 - 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Paintings', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 - 'Dreamscapes - Contemporary Desert Art', Mosings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2001 - 'Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2001 - Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2001 - 'Pintupi Exhibition', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 - Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
2002 - 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Paintings', Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia
2002 - 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Paintings' Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2002 - 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Paintings' Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2002 - 'Pintupi Men's and Women's Stories,' Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2002 - 'Art Born of the Western Desert', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2003 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2003 - 'Christmas Gift Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - 'Kuniya Pilkati', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - 'Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - 'Papunya Tula Artists - 2004', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - 'All About Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2004 - 'Ma Yunga/Pass It On', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - 'Pintupi Women', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2005 - 'Two Sisters: Tjunkiya And Wintjiya Napaltjarri', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 - 'Papunya Tula Artists', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Rising Stars', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Aboriginal Art 2005', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Strong and Stately', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 - 'Narratives Preceding All Memory', Burg Vischering, Luedinghausen, Germany.
2006 - 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art', Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2006 - 'Across The Board', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - ''Papunya Tula Artists 2006', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 - 'Aboriginal Art 2006', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 - 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - 'Paintings by Papunya Tula Artists', Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2006 - "Yawulyurru Kapalilu Palyara Nintilpayi', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 - 'Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2007 - 'Papunya Tula Women', Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2007 - 'Group Show', Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2007 - 'Aboriginal Art 2007', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2007 - 'The Black and White Show', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2007 - 'Pintupi Art 2007', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2007 - 'Pintupi - Mixed Exhibition', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 - 'Papunya Tula Artists 2008', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 - 'Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula', The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2008 - 'Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair', Darwin Convention Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 - 'Aboriginal Art 2008', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 - 'Group Show', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 - 'Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka - Making Strong Paintings at Home', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair', The Chan Building, Bennett Park Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Painting the Country', Cross Cultural Art Exhange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Six Hands', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2009 - 'Desert Mob 2009', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Community - The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2009 - 'Nganampatju Kanpatja Winki, Nganampatju Yara Winki - All Our Paintings, All Our Stories', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyntjanya - Same Stories, A New Way', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2010 - 'White', Short St Gallery, Broome, West Australia

COLLECTIONS

Museums & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Artbank
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands

SELECTED

Bibliography

Mellor D & Megaw V. Twenty Five Years And Beyond, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Flinders Press, 1999.
Isaacs, J. Spirit Country, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, 1999.
Papunya Tula Genesis and Genius, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia 2000
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 'Aboriginal Art 2001', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
'Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art', exhibition catalogue, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 'Aboriginal Art 2005', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scott Livesey Galleries, 'Aboriginal Art 2007', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scott Livesey Galleries, 'Aboriginal Art 2008', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cross Cultural Exchange, 'Painting the Country, exhibition catalogue, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 2009.

Artworks of Wintjiya Napaltjarri

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