In about 1945, Gloria Petyarre was born in Utopia. Her Aboriginal language is Anmatyerre and her country is known to Aborigines as Atnangkere. Gloria is one of seven sisters who are all artists, including the well-known Kathleen Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird.

Exhibitions

2008 Blue: a group exhibition fireworks gallery Brisbane
Utopia Revisited NG Art Gallery Chippendale Sydney
Utopia Discoveries Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
Nominated for the Telstra Awards 2008
EWB Elements travelling group exhibition presented by Dacou in conjunction with Dreamtime Art.
2007 Standing on Ceremony Group Exhibition Tandanya Institute Adelaide
Utopia in New York Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA.
Utopia Australian Embassy Washington USA
Desert Diversity Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
Treasures of the Spirit – Investment in Aboriginal Art
Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition with Rio Tinto fireworks gallery Brisbane
New Works from Utopia Space Gallery Pittsburgh USA
2006 APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition, Rio Tinto Offices Melbourne
with Ada Petyarre, “Black Abstract”, Woolloongabba Art G Gallery and touring, Brisbane, QLD.
2005 Recent Paintings Gallery Savah Sydney NSW
Summer in the Desert’ Group Exhibition Hogarth Galleries
Sydney
2004 Sanjski cas. Dreamtime’ Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana Slovenia
Bilderwelten in Utopia Holzschnitte und Gemaelde vom
Aborigines Staedtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen Kunstmuseum Bayreuth Germany
Die inneren und die äußeren Dinge Stadtgalerie Bamberg Villa Dessauer Bamberg Germany (in cooperation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr Speyer)
2003 Big Country Flinders University Art Museum collection Flinders University City Gallery Adelaide
The Other Side of the Land, Art from Central Australia Berlin Germany (in cooperation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr Speyer)
Sydney Art Fair Gallery Savah Sydney
2002 Mythology & Reality Palazzo Bricherasio Turin Italy,
AAM Utrecht Netherlands,
Monash University Prato Centre Italy,
Jerusalem Centre for the
Performing Arts Israel, SH Ervin Gallery Sydney, Heide
Museum of Modern Art Melbourne
Mixed Utopia Knut Grothe Galeri in Charlottlenlund Copenhagen Denmark
Paintings From Utopia Framed- The Darwin Gallery Darwin
Galerie a Le Temps Du Reve France
Contemporary Aboriginal Art From The Utopia Region BMGART Adelaide
The Craft and the Light, Art of Australia
Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg Germany (in Co-operation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr Speyer)
Images and Identity Ev. Akademie Iserlohn Germany (in
Cooeperation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr Speyer
Leaves You Thinking World Vision of Australia Walkabout Gallery Sydney NSW
Generations Utopia mixed exhibition at Japingka Gallery Fremantle Perth
Aknangkere Growth Gallery Savah Sydney
Utopia Art Sydney
Crossroads: The Millennium Portfolio of Aboriginal Prints S Singapore Art Museum Singapore
2001 Painting Country Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
Desert Colour, My Country Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery Darwin
Two Women - Dreamings Dreamtime Gallery Santa Fe USA
Women Artist of the Australian Desert combined exhibition
At Gallery 2021 Auckland New Zealand
Recounting the Essence of Life - Art from Australia Artforum HDZ Bad Oeynhausen Germany (In Coperation with Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr Speyer)
2000 An Affair to Remember ArtSauce Singapore
Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
DACOU in association with AMP - an official sponsor of the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games held a mixed Utopia art exhibition in the AMP building Sydney
Mary Place Gallery Sydney
SCECGS Redlands Art Prize Sydney
1999 Utopia BMG art Adelaide
Wynne Landscape Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
Gloria Petyarre Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
Bush Garden Japingka Gallery Fremantle
Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
Caring For Country Tandanya CulturalInstitute, Adelaide
Red Desert Galler Eumundi
Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
Gallery Savah Sydney
North Shore Fine Art Sydney
Gloria Petyarre: A Survey New England Regional Art Museum Armidale
Wildflowers Mbantua Gallery Alice Springs
Combined exhibition with Jack Britten Chapman Gallery Canberra
1998 Women Painters Of The Desert fireworks gallery Brisbane
Robert Steele Gallery Adelaide
Utopia IV Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
The Ladies Of Utopia Chapman Gallery Canberra
Utopia Art Sydney
SCECGS Redlands Sydney
Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
The Aknangkere Growth Paintings Chapman Gallery Canberra
Gloria Tamerre Petyarre Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery Campbelltown
The Adelaide Festival Theatre
1997 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
DACOU Gallery Adelaide
Dreamings of the Desert Art Gallery of South Australia
Instant Pictures Utopia Art Sydney
Ten Years On Sutton Gallery Melbourne
Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
Flinders Lane Gallery Sydney
fireworks gallery Brisbane
1996 Framed Darwin
fireworks gallery Brisbane
Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1995 DACOU Gallery Adelaide
Gloria Petyarre: On the Line Utopia Art Sydney
1994 Utopia Art Sydney
1993 Awelye Utopia Art Sydney
1992 Nangara Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings Melbourne & internationally.
New Tracks Old Lands Boston and touring US
Aboriginal Art: Utopia in the Desert
Nogizaki Arthall Tokyo Japan.
1991 Australian Galleries, New York, USA.
Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
Utopia Art Sydney
1990 Utopia – A Picture Story Holmes a Court Collection, Ireland, England, France, Thailand & India
Tagari Lia: My Family Third Eye Centre
Glasgow Ireland
Utopia Men and Dogs Austral Gallery
St Louis USA
1989 A Summer Project S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
1988 Time Before Time Austral Gallery St Louis USA
1991-01 Spirit Country San Francisco and touring USA

Collections
National Gallery of Australian
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Museum of Victoria
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Queensland University of Technology
University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland
Griffith University Collection Brisbane
University of New South Wales
Flinders University South Australia
Art Bank Sydney
Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Riddoch Art Gallery South Australia
Supreme Court Brisbane
Woollongong University Collection
Woollongong City Art Gallery
Singapore Art Museum
British Museum
Westpac New York
Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Baker-McKenzie
Macquarie Bank
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford U.S.A.
Holmes a Court Collection
Kerry Stokes Collection
James D. Wolfensohn Collection

Design for tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop
Mural for Kansas City Zoo
National Works on Paper Award, MPRG
Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Fellowship, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council