Judy Watson b. 1959

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
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
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
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
Aboriginal Women's Exhibition
Date
10 September 1991 - 10 November 1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Dissonance
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
exhibited at
Groundwork
Date
1990
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Koori Perspective
Date
1989
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

In conjunction with Australian Perspecta

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
a sacred place for these bones
Date
1989
Place
Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld
Description

SOLO

Type
Exhibition

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Other occupations
  • Curator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Curator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
Heritage countries
  • Louie Creek, Qld
  • Lawn Hill Gorge, Qld
  • Louie Creek, Qld
  • Lawn Hill Gorge, Qld
Related people
  • Robinson, Cheryl Moodai (associate of)
  • Hookey, Gordon (associate of)
  • Andrew, Brook (associate of)
  • Kngwarreye, Emily Kame (associate of)
  • Timbery, Esme (associate of)
  • Watson, Tommy (associate of)
  • Riley, Michael (associate of)
  • Croft, Brenda L. (associate of)
  • Perkins, Hetti (associate of)
  • Scott, Vivian (associate of)
  • Isaacson, Grace (grandchild of)
  • Lynn, Victoria (associate of)
  • Napurrula, Ningura (associate of)
  • Nyadbi, Lena (associate of)
  • Mawurndjul, John (associate of)
  • Bedford, Paddy (associate of)
  • Yunupingu, Gulumbu (associate of)
  • Robinson, Cheryl Moodai (associate of)
  • Hookey, Gordon (associate of)
  • Andrew, Brook (associate of)
  • Kngwarreye, Emily Kame (associate of)
  • Timbery, Esme (associate of)
  • Watson, Tommy (associate of)
  • Riley, Michael (associate of)
  • Croft, Brenda L. (associate of)
  • Perkins, Hetti (associate of)
  • Scott, Vivian (associate of)
  • Isaacson, Grace (grandchild of)
  • Lynn, Victoria (associate of)
  • Koolmatrie, Yvonne (associate of)
  • Napurrula, Ningura (associate of)
  • Nyadbi, Lena (associate of)
  • Mawurndjul, John (associate of)
  • Bedford, Paddy (associate of)
  • Yunupingu, Gulumbu (associate of)
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