Kaylene Whiskey

Kaylene Whiskey is a Yankunytjatjara artist from Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yanku-nytjatjara (APY) Lands. Her paintings and videos bring together Anangu cosmology and global popular culture, producing vivid scenes in which ancestral figures appear alongside icons such as Dolly Parton, Wonder Woman and Cher. Using a bold visual language that draws on Central Desert painting alongside comic and media imagery, she reworks familiar symbols through humour and invention. Her work centres joy as a mode of expression, where play becomes a way of asserting presence, reconfiguring representation and sustaining community.

The Biennale de Lyon acknowledges all First Nations peoples of Australia, their Traditional Custodians of the lands, and Elders past and present. We honour the enduring strength, diversity, and richness of First Nations artistic and cultural practices. We recognise First Nations peoples as Australia's first artists, whose creative traditions have been sustained across millennia and continue to shape the Nation's cultural landscape today.

In collaboration with Fondation OPALE
With the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body
With the support of the Australian Embassy in France