Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist.
He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called "Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade".
Awards
Since 1993, the Australia Council for the Arts, the arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia, has awarded a Red Ochre Award to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. In 2004, it was awarded to Bulunbulun.
Exhibitions
Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Capital Museum, Beijing. Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Melbourne Museum.
Collections
Artbank, Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra Djomi Museum, Maningrida Edith Cowan University Collection Perth Western Australia Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Holmes à Court Collection, Perth Kluge Foundation, Morven Estate, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Milingimbi Collection, MECA, Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA