Pace Gallery · Pace presents works by Emily Kam Kngwarray that foreground seasonal knowledge, country, and the painterly force of her late-career abstraction.
First Nations Australian Art
Curated by FITZ & CO · 2 exhibitions
D'Lan Galleries' Significant and Pace Gallery's Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Season together mark an important moment in the expanding international recognition of First Nations Australian art within the contemporary canon. At D'Lan, Significant foregrounds museum-quality works by leading Indigenous Australian artists, underscoring both cultural continuity and the growing institutional and collector attention surrounding these practices. In parallel, Pace's major survey of Emily Kam Kngwarray — organized in collaboration with D'Lan following the artist's landmark 2025 retrospective at Tate Modern — introduces New York audiences to one of the twentieth century's most powerful and singular painters. Spanning paintings and textiles across two Chelsea spaces, The Turning Season situates Kngwarray's deeply ecological and ancestral vision within a global contemporary art discourse increasingly attuned to Indigenous knowledge systems, abstraction, land, and lived relationships to Country.
Exhibitions
D'Lan Contemporary New York · D'Lan Galleries' annual flagship presentation of Australian First Nations art returns for its second international edition. The 2026 edition assembles nearly 60 cross-period works spanning early Papunya board paintings from 1971–72 to major contemporary practices — anchored by the Carey Lyon and Jo Crosby Collection of ten rare foundational Papunya paintings. Headline works include Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa's Honey Ant Travelling Dreaming (1971), Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi's Man Dreaming (1972), and Yumpululu Tjungurrayi's rarely-seen Special Ceremony (1972). Presented in collaboration with Pace Gallery's concurrent Emily Kam Kngwarray survey across Chelsea.