Gunybi Ganambarr is considered one of the most radical innovators among contemporary Yolŋu artists. In 2006, he began incising the surface of his barks and experimenting with texture, shape and found materials. In 2008, he was awarded the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award at the Gallery of Modern Art at Queensland Art; in 2011, he won the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award at the Art Gallery of Western Australia; and in 2018, he earned first prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Gunybi was been a member of the Maḏayin Yolŋu delegation visit to both the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth and American University Museum.