Past Exhibitions

Solo

• 2017
  ARTIST ROOM: LENA YARINKURA in Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW

Group

• 2023
  mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape, Flinders University Museum of Art, Adelaide
• 2023
  Spiritual Beings, Art Atrium, Sydney, NSW
• 2022
  Telstra NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
• 2022
  An-jawa (creek), Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
• 2021
  Lineage, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW
• 2020
  Tarnanthi Art Fair, Lot Fourteen, Adelaide SA
• 2020
  Tarnanthi: Open Hands, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• 2020
  Open Hands, Tarnanthi Exhibition 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
• 2020
  Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2020, Online
• 2020
  Tiwi Islands to Arnhem Land
• 2019
  36th National Aboriginal and Torress Strait Islander Awards Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 2018
  BOB BURRUWAL & LENA YARINKURA: KUNKAMAK NGARRWONENG – OUR HOUSE OF CULTURE, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
• 2018
  Mardayin – Aboriginal Art von Maningrida Arts, ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany
• 2018
  Barring-bul (Many Walks), Trinity Gallery, University of Melbourne
• 2017
  Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
• 2017
  White Ochre, FORM, Perth, Australia
• 2016
  33rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 2016
  Marking the Infinite, Nevada Museum of Art, Ongoing touring exhibition of female Aboriginal Australian artists
• 2014
  Four Spirits from Maningrida, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
• 2014
  Maningrida, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 2012
  Stock Jewels, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
• 2012
  New Work from Maningrida, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2012
  unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
• 2011
  The Dreaming Changes Shape, Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
• 2010
  27th Telstra National & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• 2010
  Eclectica 2, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• 2010
  Soft Sculpture, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Australia
• 2010
  Best of Maningrida, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
• 2010
  Gungamuk – Bob Burruwal & Lena Yarinkura, Sheahan Galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2010
  Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Arts Space, Darwin, Australia
• 2009
  Survey from Maningrida Arts & Culture, The Mossenson Gallery, Perth, WA
• 2009
  Spirit Beings and Ceremonial Lorrkon, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2009
  Maningrida Group Show, Sheahan Galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2009
  Togart Contemporary Art Award, The Toga Group, NT
• 2009
  Works in Season: Bark Paintings, Carvings & Weavings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2009
  Orche – A Study in Materiality, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
• 2009
  Menagerie, Object Gallery & Australian Musuem, Sydney, NSW
• 2009
  Starry, Starry Night, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 2009
  Mythic Creatures – Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW
• 2009
  Menagerie, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, VIC
• 2008
  Womens Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
• 2008
  Palya Art at Mary Place, Mary Place, Sydney, NSW
• 2008
  Weaving around the Traps, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC
• 2008
  Interwoven, Indigenart, Perth, WA
• 2008
  Maningrida Survey Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
• 2008
  Maningrida Arts, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2007
  Journeys, Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, VIC
• 2007
  Aboriginal Objects, Sculpture & Bush Toys, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
• 2007
  24th Telstra National & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 2007
  Lorrkon, Spirit Beings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2005
  22nd National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Arts Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 2004
  Bob Burruwal & Lena Yarinkura, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2004
  21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 2004
  Maningrida Fibre, Bandigan art, Sydney, NSW
• 2004
  Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• 2004
  Contexture, Framed gallery, Darwin, NT
• 2004
  Fibre and sculptures, Indigenart, Fremantle, WA
• 2004
  Divas of the desert: Maningrida, Minymaku, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
• 2004
  Maningrida Fibre Art, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
• 2003
  Organic Forms in Fibre, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW
• 2003
  Organic Forms in Fibre, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW
• 2003
  Weave, NTU Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 2003
  Dreamtime, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2003
  Maningrida Threads, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
• 2003
  Artists in Residence Exhibition, Coomalie Cultural Centre, NT
• 2003
  Bark paintings, sculpture and fibre work by the Maningrida women artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2003
  Threads of Time, Burrinja gallery, Upwey, VIC
• 2003
  An Exhibition of Rembarrnga Artists, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
• 2003
  The Visit, Annandale galleries, Sydney, NSW
• 2002
  Fibre: An Exhibition of Woven Art, Raft artspace, Darwin, NT
• 2002
  Spirit of Arnhemland, Redback Art Gallery, Qld
• 2002
  Barks in the Spotlight, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 2002
  Wild nature in contemporary Australian Art and Craft, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA
• 2002
  Inspiral, Gallery Gondawana, Alice Springs, NT
• 2002
  19th Telstra National & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• 2002
  Paper & String, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld
• 2002
  Transition & Resilience, Jam Factory, SA
• 2002
  The Colour and the Shape, Thornquest Gallery, Qld
• 2002
  Frisson, 14th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennal, Manly, NSW
• 2001
  Weaving in 3 dimensions, Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW
• 2001
  Yvonne Koolmatrie and Lena Yarinkura, Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW
• 2001
  Out of the Mould: An exhibition of first works in bronze and aluminium, Gallery Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 2001
  National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
• 2001
  Vital Fluids, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT
• 2000
  Transitions: 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; touring nationwide: Tandanya, Adelaide, SA; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
• 2000
  14th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial: Frisson, City Gallery, nationwide touring exhibition
• 2000
  Biennale Of Sydney 2000, Biennale Of Sydney, various venues at various location, NSW
• 1999
  Contemporary Australian Craft, Japanese touring exhibition organised in conjunction with the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; touring to Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu, Japan
• 1999
  The Art of Fibre Spiral, Arm Gallery, Canberra, ACT
• 1999
  My Country: Australische Aboriginal Kunst, Brandweer Kazerne, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1999
  Spinifex Runner : a collection of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fibre art., Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW; touring regional centres
• 1998
  A Material Thing: Objects from the Collection, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, NSW
• 1998
  Maningrida Weavings, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 1998
  Spirits of the Dreaming Jarraman Arts Aboriginal Corporation,, National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Sydney, NSW
• 1998
  Pandanus and Paperbark, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
• 1997
  14th Telstra National Aboriginal and Tores Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 1996
  Contemporary Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 1996
  The Language of Place, Framed, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
• 1996
  Dreaming: Aboriginal Art from Australia, Galerie Kouwenhoven, Delft, Netherlands
• 1995
  Maningrida:The Language of Weaving, A.E.T.A Touring Exhibition throughout Australia and New Zealand
• 1995
  National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award and Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
• 1994
  The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 1991
  Aboriginal Womens Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
• 1991
  Sea People, National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW
• 1990
  Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 From Australia, Australia Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; toured to Swansea and Manchester, UK
• 1989
  The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 1987
  Karnta Womens Exhibition, Touring Nationally and South-east Asia

Collections

• Helen Read Collection, Darwin, Australia
• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• Aimee Proost Private Collection, Queensland, Australia
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
• Djomi Museum, Maningrida, Australia
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney, Australia
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
• Walonia Aboriginal Art, The Netherlands
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA
• Museum DHistoire Naturelle de Lyon, France
• Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
• Dennis Scholl, Miami, USA
• Artbank, Sydney, NSW