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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Dee Jefferson

‘Impossible task’: NGV to take largest international exhibition of Indigenous art to US

A large painting in black and white, featuring a rhizomatic patterning, hangs on a white gallery wall, with a person walking in front of it.
Anwerlarr Anganenty (Big yam Dreaming) by Emily Kam Kngwarray is among the highlights of the landmark exhibition The Stars We Do Not See, which opens at the National Museum of Art in Washington DC next year. Photograph: Wayne Taylor/National Gallery of Victoria

The largest international exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art will open in 2025 at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and tour for three years across North America.

Titled The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, the show will feature more than 200 works from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection from the 19th century to the present day – including masterpieces by the late Emily Kam Kngwarray, Rover Thomas, Sally Gabori and Albert Namatjira.

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