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michael
nelson jagamara
© 2008
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Born:
1946 Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs) Language and Clan: Warlpiri Lives: Papunya Paints: Papunya and Brisbane |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2008 | MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARA: from the studio, fireworks gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2006 |
Michael Nelson Jagamara: Stone Knife Arrangements, fireworks gallery,
Brisbane Lines + Signs, Artstation Kollmitzberg, Austria |
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| 2002 |
MNJ & Campfire Group, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide City
Hall A Foot in Two Worlds, Kuko Dreaming, Kollmitzberg, Austria |
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| 2000 |
Some Other Way: MNJ and Campfire Group, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Michael Nelson Jagamara Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle |
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| 1999 |
Without the Story, the Painting Is Nothing, Brisbane City Gallery New Expressions, fireworks gallery, Brisbane New Work, Desart Gallery, Sydney |
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| 1998 | MNJ (a preview), fireworks gallery, Brisbane | |
| 1997 | Nine Dreamings from Mt Singleton, fireworks gallery, Brisbane | |
| 1993 | Many Stories, Utopia Art, Sydney | |
| 1990 | Michael Nelson Jagamara, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne | |
| 1989 | Michael Nelson Jagamara, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne | |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
2009 |
Sculpture
+ Works on Paper fireworks gallery Brisbane |
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| 2008 |
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Blue, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Anzac Day Artists, fireworks gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2007 |
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney Crossing Cultures 2: Indigenous Art from Western Sydney and the North Western Desert, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane Archibald Prize, (a joint work: ‘Portrait of MNJ’ by David Paulson, ‘Kangaroo’ by MNJ) Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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| 2006-7 | Gifted, an exhibition of Indigenous Art at the AGNSW, Sydney | |
| 2006 |
Imants Tillers: One World Many Visions (collaborations with Imants
Tillers) National Gallery of Australia Homage to the Square, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Two-way: Artists & Mentors, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Three Large Rooms, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane |
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| 2005 |
SHOOSH: The History of the Campfire Group, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane The Dark & The Light IV, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Smoke, fireworks gallery, Brisbane; Despard Gallery, Hobart |
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| 2004 |
Spirit & Vision, Sammlung Essl, Austria Lines IV, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Cultural Copy: Visual Conversations on Indigenous Art and Cultural Appropriation, Fowler Museum, UCLA, California USA |
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| 2003 |
BIG ART, small viewer: a collaborative community project, Campus
Kindy, University of Queensland, Brisbane A Few Good Men, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne Colour, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne What have you done lately (to change the situation)?, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Black & White, (collaborations with Michael Eather), Artstation, Kollmitzberg, Austria |
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| 2002 |
Not yet post-Aboriginal (collaborations with Imants Tillers) Hazlehurst
Regional Art Gallery Big Country, Small Worlds, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Discomfort – relationships in contemporary Aboriginal Art, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Lines II, fireworks gallery, Brisbane The White Desert II, (collaborations with Michael Eather), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Summer Exhibition, Gallery Savah, Sydney |
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| 2001 |
DREAMTIME: The Dark and The Light, Sammlung Essl, Austria A Few Good Men, fireworks gallery, Brisbane A Few of My Favorite Things, fireworks gallery, Brisbane The White Desert, (collaborations with Michael Eather), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2000 |
Landmarks, Dar Festival of Indigenous Art and Culture, Powerhouse,
Brisbane Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art of Place, National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton 17th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory |
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| 1999 |
3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Recent Dilemmas, (collaborations with Michael Eather), Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Central Queensland Art Purchase Exhibition, Rockhampton Art Gallery |
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| 1998 |
Art of Place, 4th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Australian
Heritage Commission, Canberra Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Powerful Medicine, King George Square & fireworks gallery, Brisbane |
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| 1997 | A Classic Collection of Aboriginal Desert Paintings, fireworks gallery, Brisbane | |
| 1996 |
Dreamings of the Desert: Aboriginal Dot Painting of the Western
Desert, Art Gallery of South Australia Salt Water, Fresh Water, Bore Water, fireworks gallery, touring exhibition, Regional Galleries Association of Queensland All Stock Must Go!, (with Campfire Group), Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery |
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| 1993–4 | ARATJARA: Art of the First Australians, touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum Humlebæk, Denmark | |
| 1993 |
Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga, Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach,
Queensland Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971–1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth |
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| 1992 |
Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen
Centre, Alice Springs Crossroads – Towards a New Reality: Aboriginal Art from Australia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1991 |
Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery and Te Whare o Aotearoa National Art Gallery, New Zealand Alice to Penzance, The Mall Galleries, London |
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| 1990 |
Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome |
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| 1989 |
Papunya Tula: Contemporary Paintings from Australia’s Western
Desert, John Weber Gallery, New York Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Windows on the Dreaming, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and Design Warehouse Sydney (through Lauraine Diggins Fine Art) |
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| 1988 | Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia Society Galleries, New York | |
| 1987 | State of the Art: Ideas and Images of the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art, London | |
| 4th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin | ||
| 1986 |
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Roar Studios, Melbourne |
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| 1985 | The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971–1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| 1984 | Papunya
and Beyond, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs 1st National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| 1982-3 | Papunya Tula: , Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne | |
| COMMISSIONS | ||
| 1989 | BMW Art Car Project, Painted BMW M3 Racing Car | |
| 1988 | Possum & Wallaby Dreaming, Forecourt Mosaic, New Parliament House, Canberra | |
| 1987 | Possum Dreaming, Bicentennial Mural, Sydney Opera House | |
| AWARDS | ||
| 2008 | Honorary Doctorate, University of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 2007 | Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney | |
| 2006 | Winner, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane | |
| 2002 | Winner, Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery | |
| 1993 |
Fellowship Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council, Sydney Australian Medal for Services to Aboriginal Art |
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| 1984 | Winner, 1st National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin | |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| Australian
Museum, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Griffith Artworks, Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Paul Eliadis Collection, Brisbane The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth Vizard Collection, Melbourne Sammlung Essl, Austria Centre Culturel Tjibaou, New Caledonia Ho¬-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea BMW Art Car Project, United States The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, United States Numerous private collections Australia & overseas |
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