Barbara Weir Biography and CV
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DATE OF BIRTH: 1940
REGION: Utopia
LANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre/Anmatyerre
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia, AdelaideArt Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
Queensland College of Art Griffith University, QLD
University of Adelaide, Adelaide
AMP Collection
Holmes a Court Collection
Hitachi Collection
Macquarie Bank Collection
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Barbara Weir, Kate Owen Gallery, NSW2010 In the Footprints of Barbara Weir, Central Art, Alice Springs
2009 Utopia, Colours of the Desert, Gongpyeong Art Space in collaboration with DACOU, Australian Embassy in Korea and Crossbay Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Janet Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
2009 My Country, DACCOU Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Red Rock Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Dreamings – The Land, Outback Aboriginal Land, Caulfield, VIC
2008 Utopia Revisited, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2008 Utopia Discoveries, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2008 EWB Elements, DACOU in collaboration with Dreamtime Art, (travelling exhibition of Australia)
2008 Blue: A Group Exhibition, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Walking Together to Aid Aboriginal Health, Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition, University of NSW, Kensington, NSW
2008 Gecko Gallery, Broome
2007 Desert Diversity, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007 New Works from Utopia, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
2007 Red Rock Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Standing on Ceremony, Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2007 Utopia Exhibition, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Australian Embassy, Washington, USA
2006 Recent Paintings, Gallery Savah, Sydney
2006 Utopia, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006 APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition, Rio Tinto Offices, Melbourne
2004 Mbantua Gallery (USA exhibition: Portland, Nashville, Knoxville, Hartford, Greenwich, Philadelphia and New York)
2004 Addison Road Gallery, Marrickville, NSW
2003 Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Barbara Weir/Emily Kngwarreye, Westside Gallery, Marrickville, NSW
2003 Creative Collaboration, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2003 Light over Utopia, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2003 Contemporary Aboriginal Art Event, Umpqua Bank, Portland, USA
2003 Travelling Exhibition of USA (Oregon, & Tennessee)
2002 United – Mother and Daughter, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
2002 The Utopia Six, Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Generations, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2002 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2002 Travelling Exhibition of USA (Nashville & Portland)
2002 Queen Victoria Building, Sydney
2002 Knut Grothe Galeri, Charlottlenlund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Out of Utopia, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2001 Alison Kelly Gallery, Armadale, Victoria
2001 Young Presidents Organisation University, Sydney in association with Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2001 Painting Country, Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2001 Desert Colour, My Country, Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin
2001 Women Artists of the Australian Desert, Gallery 2021, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Two women – Dreamings, Dreamtime Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2000 An Affair to Remember, ArtSauce, Singapore
2000 Gathering the Past, Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Artists of Utopia, Tandanya, Adelaide
2000 Gallery Savah, Sydney
2000 Gordes, Vaucluse, France
2000 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2000 DACOU in association with AMP, AMP Building, Sydney
2000 Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2000 Women’s Business, Chicago, USA
1999 Utopia, BMG Art, Adelaide
1999 Bush Garden, Japingka Gallery, Sydney
1999 Caring for Country, Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide
1999 Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
1999 North Shore Fine Art, Sydney
1999 DreamWorks, Gallery Savah, Sydney
1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
1998 Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide (exhibited in Art Felchin, Zurich, Germany; Gallery Griffiouen, Belgium; Boomerang Gallery, Amsterdam’ Kunsdcentoim Aalst, Belgium; Kunsdcentoum Dendermonde, Belgium’ Frank Popko Gallery, Rees, Germany; Ebes Collection, Workum, The Netherlands)
1998 ART EXPO, New York in association with Mandurah LTD, New York, USA
1998 SCECGS Redlands, Sydney
1998 15th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition
1998 Flinders Lane, Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1997 Dreaming’s of the Desert, Quadrivium Gallery & DACOU Gallery for the Art Gallery of South Australia at Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1997 Ten Years On, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1997 14th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition
1996 Gallery Woo Mang and Partners, Paris, France
1995 Davis Avenue Gallery, Melbourne
AWARDS
2000 Finalist, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW2000 Finalist, 17th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
1998 Finalist, 15th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
1997 Finalist, 14th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
