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Abie Loy Kemarre

Born in 1972 - Australia

BIOGRAPHY

Abie Loy Kemarre was born in Utopia in 1972. This vast region in Central Australia is the territory of people such as the Anmatyerre, the Eastern Anmatyerre et the Alyawarre. Situated in the center of Australia, about 240 kilometers Nort-East of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), in the Northern Territory, the Utopia region is a desert of more than 3000 square kilometers.

There are bout 20 towns in the region, most of them on the Sandover river and on the road that crosses the territory. These villages are the home of large families. These populations have kept their traditional connection with the land and with their culture.

Abie Loy Kemarre started painting in 1994, at the advices of her grandmother, the famous aboriginal painter Kathleen Petyarre, who guided her during her first attempts. These first attempts were inspired by ?dreams? of which she is the spiritual guardian, especially the Bush Hen Dreaming.

Abie Loy has built her own style very quickly, and that explains her remarkable work, her success, her numerous solo and collective shows, at first in Asutralia, starting in 1997 (Perth, Brisbane, Adélaïde, Melbourne or Sydney), but also in the US (Miami, 2003), Indonesia or Europe (Germany, Spain, France). Her works are part of numerous private and public collections in Australia.

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Painting Painting Acrylic Australian Artists

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO & GROUP SHOWS

2013
Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Arts d’Australie, Galerie 49/ Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Saumur (France)
Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)

2012
Ancestral Modern Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (USA)
Art Gent, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Gand (Belgium)
Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
J.I.M.A.B.E., Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Cape Town (South Africa)

2011
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Galerie AROA & Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Neuilly sur Seine (France)
Art Contemporain, galerie Clarus & Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Ligny le Ribault (France)

2010
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, Washington State University Museum, Pullman Washington (U.S.A)
Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie, Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Grand Nord-Grand Sud. Artistes Inuits et Aborigènes, Abbaye de Daoulas, Bretagne (France)
Desert Art : Collection 2010, Gadfly Gallery, Perth (Australia)
Trilogie australienne, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Parcours Nomad’s en Australie, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)

2009
Lands of Enchantment, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (USA)
Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Champs-Élysées, Paris (France)
Créations contemporaines aborigènes, Musée des Confluences, Lyon (France)

2008
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Emily Kngwarreye and her Legacy, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
Emily Kngwarreye and her Legacy, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
Lille Art Fair, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Lille (France)
Black and White - an exhibition of Aboriginal works, NG Art Gallery Sydney (Australia)

2007
Desert Dreamscapes, Holter Museum, Helena Montana (USA)
St-Art, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Strasbourg (France)
Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)

2006
Prism, Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo (Japan)
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (USA)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Bush Leaf and Other Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth (Australia)
St-Art, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Strasbourg (France)
Kaos-Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris (France)
Recent Painting, Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Framed Gallery, Darwin (Australia)
Abie Loy & Kathleen Petyarre, New Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
The second Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Shalom College, University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

2005
Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Levi - Kaplan Collection, The Wright Exhibition Centre, Seattle (USA)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Gadfly Gallery, Perth (Australia)
Utopia & Beyond, Maunsell Wicks, Paddington (Australia)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth (Australia)

2004
Arrnkerthe, New Paintings, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney (Australia)
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (Australia)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Gadfly Gallery, Perth (Australia)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Solo Exhibition, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney (Australia)

2003
Art Miami 2003, Miami (USA)
ARCO Art Fair, Madrid (Spain)
Abie Loy Kemarre, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (Australia)
Aboriginal Art Fair, Sydney (Australia)
Aboriginal Art Fair, Sydney (Australia)
Abie Loy - Recent Paintings, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane (Australia)

2002
Abie Loy & Violet Petyarre, Recent Paintings, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington (Australia)

2001
15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition, Darwin (Australia)

2000
The Collection, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide (Australia)
Utopia, Framed Gallery, Darwin (Australia)