Ishmael Marika is a young Rirratjingu clan leader, film maker, and award winning Yolŋu digital artist.

Ishmael has exhibited at major institutions and galleries throughout the world and has been commissioned to create predominant digital public art installations in major international cities. Ishmael’s initial NFT series consists of hand drawn generative animations depicting the temporal states of the sacred Rirratjingu saltwater Rulyapa. 

EXHIBITIONS

2020 14th Mar – 6th Sept Art Gallery of NSW, NIRIN – Sydney Biennale “Watami Manikay”

2020 Mar – Present Day University of Technology Sydney, “Rarranhdharr”

2019 29th Mar – 23rd June Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), The National Exhibition

2018 Oct – 2019 Oct Arts West Gallery (Melbourne University), Awaken Exhibition (Gändiwuy Documentary)

2017 Fremantle Art Centre, In Cahoots

2017 Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarnanthi (Waŋupini – Clouds)

2017 Wynscreen – Wynyard Train Station, Wunya’Gali (The Other Side)

2016 National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander (MAGNT) Winner, Sunlight Energy II

2016 South Australia Museum, Yiḏaki Exhibition – The Mulka Project Collaboration

2015 Slide (Gertrude Contemporary), Rulyapa

2014 Primavera (MCA), Galka

2013 National Gallery of Victoria, Grandfather Passing on a Message

2013 National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander MAGNT Finalist, Sunlight Energy

2012 Yuta Project, The Ownership Project

AWARDS

2016 National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Youth Award

Sunlight Energy 2

2016 National Indigenous Music Traditional Award

Wawilak (Two Sisters)

2015 NT Young Achiever of the Year Award

FILMOGRAPHY

2018 Gändiwuy Expedition

2017 Waŋupini

2015 Rulyapa

2015 Gapu Ga Gunda – The Art of Noŋirrŋga Marawili

2014 Galka

2013 My Grandfather Passing On a Message

2010 Waŋa Wataŋumirri Dharuk

(Many community ceremonies and events for The Mulka Archive)

COLLECTIONS

Yarra Council Chambers – Victoria