Lily Lion Kngwarreye (1964)

LILY LION KNWARREYE

BIOGRAPHY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2016 Solo Exhibition, A Utopian Vision, Cooee Art Gallery, NSW 20th Oct - 19th Nov 2016

2016 Finalist, Alice Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs, N.T.

2014 Narrativa Herióca - Pintura Aborígine do Deserto Australiano Renaissance Hotel, São Paulo, Brazil & Arca Urbana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2014 Finalist, 38th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2013 Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize, 2013, Maclaren Vale, South Australia

2013 Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Museum of South Australia

2012-13 Blake Prize Director’s Cut on-line exhibition, The Blake Society

2012 finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney

2012 finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach (Blue Mountains region) NSW

2012 Tattersalls Club Art Prize Award, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane

2012 finalist, Metro Art Award, Metro Art Gallery, Melbourne

2012 The Churchie, National Emerging Art Exhibition, Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland College of Art (Judge’s Award winner)

2011 Tattersall’s Club Art Prize Award, Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane, 2010 (Commended)

2011 Kinross House, Uniting Arts Toorak, Vic; 25 May - 3 July 2011, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW' 30 July - 8 September 2011, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Tasmania

2010 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, 2010, Sydney

2010 59th Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 3 September - 2 October 2010

23 Oct - 28 Nov 2010, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA; 28 Jan - 3 March 2011, Delmar Trinity Gallery, NSW; 18 March - 21 April

2010 Metro Gallery Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Blake Prize, The Blake Society, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

City of Albany Art Prize, 4 – 27 April 2009, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, W.A. Awarded Highly Commended

Making their Mark: Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray and Genevieve Kemarr Loy, 20 March - 25 April 2009, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

An Individual Perspective: From the Indigenous Collection of Lauraine Diggins, Deakin University Gallery, Burwood, and touring to Geelong Gallery, 2010

2008 Impulse to Paint: The Artists of Iylenty, Utopia, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

Moscow World Fine Art Fair, Manege, Moscow, Russia

The Churchie National Emerging Art, Morris Hall at Churchie (Anglican Church

Grammar School), East Brisbane

Annual Collectors’ Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

Australian Antiques & Art Dealers Fair 2008, Sydney

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2007 Visions of Utopia, Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney

Memory As Landscape, Masterpiece @ IXL, Hobart

Utopia Today, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS:

Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane

Lauraine Diggins, Melbourne

LITERATURE:

Impulse to Paint: The Artists of Iylenty, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melbourne, 2008 (exhibition catalogue)

Annual Collectors’ Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2008 (exhibition catalogue).