Details of Ronnie Tjampitjimpa
About
Ronnie Tjampitjimpa was born in the early 1940's at Tjiturrunya west of Mawuyan, across the Northern Territory border in Western Australia. He spent most of his formative years as a nomad in the romote desert surrounding his birthplace. He was initiated in the Winparku area of Western Australia. Due to drought conditions in the 1950's, he and his family moved to Haasts Bluff where Tjampitjimpa worked as a stockman. He and his family were then removed to the newly formed Papunya settlement in the early 1960's, where Tjampitjimpa worked as a fencer, making yards for cattle. Ronnie Tjampitjimpa commenced painting in 1971.
AWARDS
1988 - The Alice Prize
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1994 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1995 - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1996 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1997 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2002 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982 - Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1982 - Georges Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1982 - Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1983 - Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1986 - Roar Studios, Melbourne, Australia
1986 - Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1987 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1988 - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1988 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1988 - Expo '88, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1990 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venie, Italy
1990 - 'Peintres Papunya D'Australie', Paris, France
1991 - Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Australia
1991 - Union of Soviet Artist's Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1991 - Marble Hall, St Petersburg, Russia
1991 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1991 - Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1992 - State Ukrinian Museum of Art, Kiev, Ukraine
1992 - State Bylorussian Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Bylorussia, Latvia
1992 - Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1992 - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
1993 - Dreamtime Gallery, Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia
1993 - Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1993 - Manly Art Gallery & Art Museum, Manly, New SouthWales, Australia
1993 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1993 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1993 - Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1993 - Art Museum Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
1993 - Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
1993 - Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1993 - Australian Perspecta, ArtGallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1994 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1994 - Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1994 - Dreamtime Gallery, Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia
1994 - Durack Gallery, Broome, Western Australia, Australia
1994 - Museum Villa Stuck, Prinzregentenstrabe, Munich
1994 - Spazio Krizia, Milano, Italy
1994 - Palazzo Butera, Palermo, Italy
1994 - Fondazione Gorrardo, Lugano, Switzerland
1994 - ACAF 4 Royal Exhibiton Hall Melbourne, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1994 - Power of the Land, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1994 - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award & Exhibition, Canberra, Australia
1994 - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1994 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1995 - Groninger Museum, Groniger, The Netherlands
1995 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1995 - Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia
1995 - Museo di Architettura e Scultura Ligure di Sant'Agostino, Genova, Italy
1995 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1995 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1995 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1995 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1995 - Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd (Fringe Festival), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1996 - Niagara Galleries, Victoria, Utopia Art Sydney, Australia
1996 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1996 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1996 - Museums & Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1996 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1996 - Joint House Department, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1996 - Sherman Galleries, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1996 - 'Aboriginal Art', Poznan City Gallery, Poland
1996 - Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1997 - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1997 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd (Fringe Festival), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1997 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1997 - Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Drill Hall, Canberra, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards,Tandanya - Aboriginal Cultural Institute Incorporated, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
1997 - 13th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1998 - 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 1998, Museums & Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
1998 - New World Art GAllery, Hattem, The Netherlands
1998 - Art Gallery Kunsthuys, Wijk bij Duurstede, the Netherlands
1998 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1998 - 'Art of the Aborigines', Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1998 - Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1999 - NT Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1999 - Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
1999 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 - 'Lines' Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2000 - 'Aboriginal Art 2000', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 - Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2000 - 'Aboriginal Art Select Works' Kozminsky Gallery & Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 - 'Spring Exhibition', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 - Framed Gallery, Darwin, 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 - 'Pintupi Men', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2000 - Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001 - Musee des Beaux Arts et d'Archeologie de Vienne, France
2001 - Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001 - 'Art of the Pintupi', Tony Bond Aboriginal ARt Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2001 - 'Kintore, Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001 - 'Aboriginal Art 2001', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001 - 'Dreamscapes - Contemporary Desert Art' Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2001 - 'Art Aborigene' Musee Olympic, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 - 'Papunya - Works from the 1980's', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2001 - 'Dreamtime - Contemporary Desert Art', Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
2001 - 'Indigenous Hghlights from the State Art Collection', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2001 - 'Aborigena', Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
2002 - 'Paintings from our Country', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2002 - 'Lines 2', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2002 - ''Aboriginal Art 2002', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2002 - 'Saluting Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2002 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2003 - 'Aboriginal Art 2003', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2003 - 'Ab Op 2 - Exploring The Visual Intensity of Contemporary Aboriginal Art', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2003 - Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2003 - 'Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague', Toskansky Palace, Praha 1, Czech Republic
2003 - 'Pintupi Art from the Western Desert', Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2003 - 'Masterpieces from the Western Desert', Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2003 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - 'Pintupi Art 2004', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2004 - 'All About Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2004 - 'Talking About Abstraction', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts - The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004 - ''Aboriginal Art 2004', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - 'Ma Yunga/Pass it On', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 - "Looking Closely At Country', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts - The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004 - 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 - 'Mythology & Reality', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Papunya Tula Artists', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
2005 - ''Aboriginal Art 2005', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 - 'Strong & Stately', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 - 'New Work for a New Space', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 - 'New Works from the Western Desert', Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2006 - 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Bathurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - 'Papunya Tula Artists 2006', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 - 'Land Marks', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2006 - 'PTA', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - 'Aboriginal Art 2006', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 - 'Pintupi' Hamiltons Gallery, London, United Kingdon
2006 - Papunya Tula Artists - Recent Paintings,' Harriet Place, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 - 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Grafton regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - 'Pintupi Art 2006', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2006 - 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 - 'Pintupi Dreamtime', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 - 'Yawuyurru Kapalilu Palyara Nintilpayi', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 - 'Papunya Tula Artists 2007', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 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 Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 - 'Australian Abstraction', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2008 - 'Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula', The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2008 - 'Aboriginal Art 2008', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 - TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 - '20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2008 - 'Pintupi Art 2008', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2008 - 'Kintore to Kiwirrkura - Papunya Tula Artists', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2008 - 'Marrkangu Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka - Making Strong Paintings at Home', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 - 'Pairs of Paintings', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2009 - 'Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya', Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA
2009 - 'Papunya 2009, Senior Pintupi Artists', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2009 - 'Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Ninnintjakitja - We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming', 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, USA
2009 - 'Community - The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2009 - 'Nganampatju Kanpatja Winki, Nganampatju Wara Winkii - All our Paintings, All our Stories', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 - 'Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya - Same Stories, A New Way', Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2010 - 'White', Short St Gallery, Broome, Western Australia, Australia
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Australian National Gallery
Art GAllery of South Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Bendigo Art Gallery
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Musee National des Art Africains et Oceaeniens, Paris, France
Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France
Medibank Private Collection
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Queensland Art Gallery
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Araluen Art CEntre, ALice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Riddoch Art GAllery
University of Virginia, USA
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
Artworks of Ronnie Tjampitjimpa
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