Katherine Nakamarra Biography
Katherine was born in 1968 in Papunya and is the daughter of senior Papunya Tula Artists Johnny Jungut Tjupurrula and Walangkura
Napanangka. She lives in Kintore in the Northern Territory. Two of her sisters also paint, Deborah Nakamarra and Lorraine Nakamarra.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 ‘Community XIII’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
‘Irrititja Kwarri Tjungu: Past and Present Together: Fifty years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Kluge Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia, USA
2021 ‘Martupura Tjukurrpa - Important Business’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT.
‘Community XII’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2020 ‘Community XI’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2016 ‘The Last Hurrah’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2015 ‘Community VII’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2012 ‘Community IV: Celebrating Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2011 ‘Papunya Tula Women’s Art’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2009 ‘Community – The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 ‘New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2007 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
‘Pintupi Art 2007’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
Collections:
Kluge Ruhe Collection, University of Virginia, USA
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