Timo Hogan, Lake Baker, 2025, Acrylic on linen, 78 3/4 × 228 3/8 inches, 200 × 580 cm

In collaboration with Michael Reid Galleries of Sydney and Berlin, La Loma is honored to present ‘The Stars Before Us All,’ a traveling exhibition of Australian First Nations painting encompassing artists such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Timo Hogan, Rover Thomas, Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra, Betty Chimney, Raylene Walatinna, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, and Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan in Los Angeles—in parallel to ‘The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art’ exhibition on view at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C through March 2026. 

‘The Stars Before Us All,’ is a group exhibition encompassing nine Australian First Nations artists. Alongside Kngwarreye’s iconic spatters, we witness the monumental contemporary salt lake of Timo Hogan (Pitjantjatjara), the intricate woven narratives of Regina Pilawuk Wilson (Ngan’gikurrungurr), and the frenetically detailed paintings of Betty Chimney (Yankunytjatjara). The exhibition features the mythological storytelling of the late Rover Thomas (East Kimberley), whose painting traces the river he came to know as a young stockman, alongside the dynamic circular visions of Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan (Yankunytjatjara). La Loma is especially proud to present, for the first time in the United States, a densely layered dot painting of Raylene Walatinna, daughter of Betty Chimney, with whom she often collaborates. Walatinna’s work emerges from the APY Lands to chart the stories of her mother’s country with burnished ochre and reds of the afternoon desert.

The works date from the 1990s to now, from the Central Desert to the tropical Northern Territory. For millennia, First Nations artists have shaped vision, story, and survival into profound artistic traditions. These paintings are colored in burnt umber and earth, electric maroon and punctuated dot-dot-dots—a radial, repetitive syntax mapping the nonlinear Dreaming, a sacred time of ancestral creation that underpins all law, identity, and connection to country.