About Sylvia Ken
Born 1965. Sylvia Ken is an artist.
Sylvia Kanytjupai Ken (born 14 March 1965, Amata, South Australia) is an Aboriginal Australian Artist. Her painting Seven Sisters won the 2019 Wynne Prize awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Life Silvia Ken was born in Amata community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands on 14 March 1965. She was schooled in Amata and began painting after leaving school, working also on batik printed on silk.
Art Since 1999, Ken creates her Tjukurpa paintings, which means Creation stories. She began exhibiting in 2000 as her painted stories have attracted attention. Ken’s works were featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museum, including Olsen Gallery in Sydney and the Jan Murphy Gallery, and were offered at the auctions multiple times with the record price $5,102 USD for Seven Sisters sold at Deutscher & Hackett, Melbourne in 2018.
In 2019, her painting Seven Sisters won the Wynne Prize awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Collections Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery Of New South Wales
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