Judy Watson b. 1959

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  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
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Watson is a Brisbane-based Waanyi artist who works across a range of mediums to explore familial, historical, political and environmental aspects of Australian Indigenous heritage and experience. In 2006 she was the winner of the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.
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exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney: All our relations
Date
2012
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description

18th Biennale of Sydney

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://bos18.com/
exhibited at
Bad and Doubtful Debts
Date
2009
Place
Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial '07
Date
2007 - 2008
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/NIAT07/
exhibited at
23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Date
2006
Place
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Description

Winner of the Telstra Work on Paper Award

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
Date
2006
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Winner

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/clemenger2006/
Dreaming their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
Date
2006
Place
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=141
exhibited at
Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990-2005
Date
2005 - 2006
Place
University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Sufferance: Women's Artists' Books Exhibition
Date
2005
Place
CQ Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.govhouse.qld.gov.au/the_governor/CraftQ.asp
exhibited at
sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson, 1989-2003
Date
2003
Place
John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA
Description

Survey exhibition, toured to South-East Asia

Type
Exhibition
Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Date
2000
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
bush colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida
Date
1999
Description

Curator

Type
Exhibition
curator of
Mapping Our Countries
Date
1999
Place
Djamu Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Judy Watson and Paul Taçon

Type
Exhibition
Note
with Paul Taçon
exhibited at
Fluent: 47th Venice Biennale exhibition
Date
1997
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

An AGNSW touring exhibition. Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
ISBN0731304039

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Venice, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fluent: Australian art from the 47th Venice Biennale
Date
1998
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description

Work from the 47th Venice Biennale.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TMAG annual report; AGNSW annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson : XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W. : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c1997.
51 p. : col. ill., map, ports. ; 33 cm.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Mixed media
exhibited at
Fluent
Date
1997
Place
XLVII Venice Biennale, Italy
Description

Represented Australia with Yvonne Koolmatrie and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Also toured to Australian galleries 1997-1998

Type
Exhibition
in Place(Out of Time): Contemporary Art in Australia
Date
1997
Place
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
Spirit + Place
Date
1996 - 1997
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art
Date
8 March 1995 - July 1995
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection
Date
16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description

Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Antipodean Currents
Date
1995
Place
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists raise the flag
Date
1994
Place
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Description

Toured to other UK galleries

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians
Date
1994
Place
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Description

Also toured to Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Date
1993
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/apt/apt_1_(1993)
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Judy Watson: the artist's studio
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Watson was artist in residence at the gallery for the International Year of World Indigenous People.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting
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