WWintjiya 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 the 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. Tandanya, 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 & 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 Painting’, 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, 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 Painting’, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

2001 ‘Aboriginal Art 2001’, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2001 ‘Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art’, Mostings 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 Painting’, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia.

2002 ‘Twenty Five Years And Beyond – Papunya Tula Painting’, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.

2002 ‘Twenty Five Years And Beyond – Papunya Tula Painting’, 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.

2002 ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

2003 ‘Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2003 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

2003 ‘Pintupi Art From The Western Desert’, Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, 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, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

2004 ‘Ma Yungu/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.

2005 ‘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 Galleries, 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, Australia

2007 ‘Group Show’, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2007 ‘Aboriginal Art 2007’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2007 ‘The Black and White Show’, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore

2007 ‘Pintupi Art 2007’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, Australia

2007 ‘Pintupi- Mixed Exhibition’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, N.T. Australia

2008 ‘Papunya Tula Artists 2008’, Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

2008 ‘Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula’, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, USA

2008 ‘Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, NT, Australia

2008 ‘Aboriginal Art 2008’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2008 ‘Group Show’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, 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 Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2007’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2008’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.