Yukultji Napangati came to Kiwirrkura in 1984. Prior to this she had been living with eight others of her immediate family in country to the west of Lake McKay. It was estimated that at this time she was 14 years old. Her and her family were among the last of the people to come in off the desert. In 1999 Yukultji contributed to the Kiwirrkurra women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal, and in 2005 she was selected as one of nine artists to exhibit at the prestigious Primavera show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. This is an invitational non-selling exhibition for young Australian artists under the age of thirty-five years.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2001 Musee de Beaux Arts et d’Archeologie de Vienne, France
2001 ‘Papunya Tula 2001’, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
2001 ‘Art of the Pintupi’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia
2001 ‘Pintupi Exhibition’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 ‘Pintupi Women from Kintore’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
2002 ‘Next Generation – Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria
2002 ‘Art Born of the Western Desert’, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2002 ‘Family’, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2004 ‘Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura’ Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 ‘Papunya Tula Artists – 2004’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 ‘Ma Yungu/Pass It On’, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2005 ‘New Ideas’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 ‘Aboriginal Art 2005’, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 ‘Primavera 2005’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 ‘Pintupi Art 2005’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2005 ‘New Works for a New Space’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 ‘Living Legends of the Western Desert’, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2005 ‘Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert’, Anima Mundy Gallery, Lyons, Colorado, USA
2005 ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 ‘Across the Board’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 ‘Landmarks’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 ‘Home Ground’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts – The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 ‘Right Here, Right Now: Recent Aboriginal & Torres Straot Islander Acquisitions’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2006 ‘PTA’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 ‘Papunya Tula Artists – Recent Paintings’, Harriet Place, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 ‘Pintupi Art 2006’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2006 ‘Pintupi Dreamtime’, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 ‘A Particular Collection’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 ‘Yawulyurru kapalilu palyara nintilpayi’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2006 ‘Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007’, John Gordon Gallery Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
2007 ‘Papunya Tula 2007’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2007 ‘Survey – Group show of emerging artists’, Raft Artspace, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Parliament House, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 ‘Recent Paintings 2007’, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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 ‘Licht in der Wuste: Aboriginal Art aus der Central und Western Desert’, Artkelch at Lichthaus Kirchner, Weinstadt Endersbach
2008 ‘David Larwill and the Western Desert Artists’, Stephan Wiess Studio, New York, USA
2008 ‘New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2008 ‘Papunya Tula Artists 2008’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 ‘Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair’, Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 ‘Ngurra yurru kulintjaku – Always Remembering Country’, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2008 ‘Pintupi Women’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 ’20 Years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2008 ‘Kintore to Kiwirrkura – Papunya Tula Artists’, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2009 ‘Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka – Making Strong Paintings At Home’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 ‘Papunya 2009, Senior Pintupi Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2009 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, The Chan Building, Bennett Park, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 ‘Painting the Country’, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2009 ‘Pintupi Women 2009’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2009 ‘Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja – We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming’, 80 Wshington Square East Galleries, New York, USA
2009 ‘Pintupi 2009’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Griffith University Art Collection