2020s
The story of Yolŋu art from northeast Arnhem Land shows no signs of stopping. Watch this space. . .
2020
Banduk Marika is named the Northern Territory Senior Australian of the Year.
Can We All Have a Happy Life, an immersive installation by Dhambit Munuŋgurr, is featured as part of the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial.
Noŋgirrŋa Marawili and the Mulka Project are included in Nirin: The 22nd Biennale of Sydney.
2021
Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu is awarded the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, for Garak: The Night Sky (2021).
Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala opens at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Murrŋiny: A Story of Metal from the East opens at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin.
2022
Djambawa Marawili is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne.
On May 4, 2022, Mr. Waṉambi, who played a pivotal role on Maḏayin as lead-curator and catalogue co-editor dies in Darwin aged 59.
Alan-Roy Bakamumu Marika is appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Ms. D. Yunupiŋu is posthumously awarded the Bark Painting Award at the 2022 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala opens at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Yolŋu artists Djambawa Marawili, Liawaḏay Wirrpanda, Gunybi Ganambarr, Ishmael Marika, and Djuwakan “DJ” Marika travel to New Hampshire with Will Stubbs from the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre.
2023
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala opens at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC. Yolŋu artists Binygurr Wirrpanda, Milminyina Dhamarrandj, Gunybi Ganambarr, Ishmael Marika, Doŋga Maymuru and Mayatili Marika travel to Washington, DC with Dave Wickens from the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre.
2024
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala opens at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Yolŋu artists Gunybi Ganambarr, Ishmael Marika, Barayuwa Munuŋgurr, Wurrandan Marawili, Dhukumul Waṉambi and Mayatili Marika travel to Charlottesville for the opening with Joseph Brady of The Mulka Project.
Naminapu Maymuru-White is invited to participate in the Venice Biennale a part of the exhibition Foreigners Everywhere – Stranieri Ovunque, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
