Jenny Watson

JENNY WATSON

Born Melbourne, Australia

Currently divides her time between Brisbane Australia and Europe

Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne

Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne

Partner in Art Projects, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Mum, Dad, a Rock Star, and a Horse, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Take Five, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Six new works and the Patricia paintings, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Aperçu, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium

Jenny Watson, Galerie Transit, Brussels, Belgium

Horses, Hollywood Love and Sleep, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Buttoned up, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Jenny Watson: A Horses Tale, presented by Vigo Gallery at the Saatchi Gallery, London

Peripheral Vision, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy (touring), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Heide Musuem of Modern Art, Melbourne

Other Lives, Galerie Straihammer and Seidenschwann, Vienna, Austria
Buffaloes, Gangurinn/ The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland

Just a Girl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Chronicles, QCA Gallery, Brisbane

Fabrications, Anna Schwartz Gallery

Birds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Garden of Eden and Child's Play, Galerie Transit, Belgium
I woke up in France, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide

Other Lives,Tomio Koyama Gallery, Shibuya, Japan
Layerings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Jenny Watson: Here There and Everywhere, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Five paintings about a mobile phone, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Striped Paintings and Undercover, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

The Daisy Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Jenny Watson, CIAP, Belgium

American Idyll, Galerie TRANSIT, Belgium

Material Evidence: Jenny Watson, Works on Fabric 1981 - 2005, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Sonntag and Transit Galerie, Belgium

Opq- Project Show, The Factory, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm, Germany

Walking the dog, Malkasten, Dusseldorf

Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva

Star Material, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Paris Fashion Week 2006, a collaboration with Arno Caravel and Martin Grant, Peloton, Sydney

Vintage Paintings & New Watercolours, TRANSIT, Mechelen, Belgium

Works made in Sri Lanka, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Exhibition at Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

Material Evidence: Jenny Watson, Works on Fabric 1981 - 2005, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Child's Play, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Jenny Watson, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Woman and cat in an upper west side apartment, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

Angels, Mrs Peel, Maybelline and a Long Night of the Soul, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Child's Play II, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA

Child's Play, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama and Hatano Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan

Made in Perth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Doll House, International Art Space Kellerberrin, Kellerrebin, Western Australia

Girls, Gimpel Fils, London
Jenny Watson, Paul Greenaway, Adelaide

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
ARCO, Madrid (Anna Schwartz Gallery)
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Bologna Art Fair, Giordano Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Shrinksville, Galerie Transit, Belgium

Shelf life, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Wild East, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Japan '99, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Play Room & Buffaloes, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
University of Hanoi and College of Fine Arts, Vietnam
Mothership, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Dina Carola, Naples, Italy
Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Italy
The Seven Ages of a Playboy Bunny, Gimpel Fils, London, U.K.

The Bear Facts, Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Mothership, Giordano Raffaeli, Trento, Italy

Marburger University Museum, Germany
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Made in Europe, Ulmer Museum, Germany

Rosenheim farm, Rosenheim Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany

Gramency Park Paintings, Manus Presse, Stuttgart, Germany

Gaby Kranshaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

History / Hysterie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Minimalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria

Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Manus Presse, Stuttgart, Germany

Ludwigforum for Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland

Prints, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium

Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra;

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Jenny Watson, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Von Witzleben, Karlsruhe, Germany
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Black Wholes, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

Pleasures and Memories, Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany

Fables, Pastoral and Present, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

The Mad Room, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia

Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia

Q Space Annex, Brisbane Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Q Space Annex, Brisbane, Australia
Axiom Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
David Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Abraxas Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the GUITAR, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Horse Girl Energy, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne Art Fair, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne

The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

The Winter Bride, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

St Kilda's Alright: Art and artists in the 1980s, Carlisle Street Art Space, Melbourne

Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

Thin Skin, curated by Jennifer Higgie, Monash University Museum of Art, ​Melbourne

Paper Whispers, Schonfeld Galerie, Brussels, Belgium

Soft Landing, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide

Introductions: Portraits from the Collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia

Aotearoa Art Fair, The Cloud, Auckland, New Zealand

Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne

Embodied Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Fresh New Material: New Australian Textile Art, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville

Birds & Language, Woollongong Art Gallery, Woollongong

Feeling abstract? Paintings from the UWA Art Collection 1950-1990, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Western Australia

Light & Darkness, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney

20/20: Shared Visions, Artbank, Sydney

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

A Painting Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

MPRG: FIFTY, Morning Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Workshop, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland

Never the same river, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Major Works: Peter Atkins, Mat Collishaw, Ariel Hassan, Juz Kitson, Dani Marti, Santiago Sierra, Sally Smart and Jenny Watson, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide

Pets Are People Too, Bayside Gallery, Brighton

Fringe - William Copley, Saskia Pintelon & Jenny Watson, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Berlin

Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Hard Feelings, The Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick, VIC

Flashback & Guests, Stalke Galleri, Denmark

Painting, More Painting- Chapter 2, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Love…More Than a Four Letter Word, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland

Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney

Radical Romanticism, CRANE International Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia

GROUP SHOW: Tony Clark, Dale Frank, Kathy Temin & Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Howard Arkley (and friends…), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
Bologna Art Fair, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

Solitaire,Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville

Spin Doctor, Brussels Art Fair, Belgium (curated by Johan Creten)

Basil Sellers Art Prize 4, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Mix Tape 1980′s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Every day I am a day older: Portraiture from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane.

New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

Heat in the Eyes: New Acquisitions 2010-2013, Ian Potter Museum of Art - University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

Playtime, Institute

Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Kindness/Udarta: Australia-India Cultural Exchange, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

PICA Salon 2011, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

Slow Burn: a century of Australian women artists from a private collection, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Melbourne / Brisbane: punk, art and after, The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne

The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2007, The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Art Brussels 2007, Brussels, Belgium

Art 38 Basel, with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2007 Milano Art Fair, with Giordano Raffaelli, Milan, Italy

Bendigo Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo

Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery's Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD

Innocence and Experience, Gimpel Fils, London, 4 April - 12 May

Cut N' Paste, Peloton Galleries, Sydney, 18 April - 12 May

Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney

The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Blur; Reality and Realism in Picture Making, Curated by Steven Alderton, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD, Australia

So You Wanna Be A Rock n' Roll Star: Australian painting from the NGV Shell Collection, NGV touring exhibition organized by NETS Victoria

Elisabeth Murdoch Gallery, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria

10/21 - VCA at the Venice Biennale, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Drawing Centre, curated by Ross Woodrow, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW, Jan-Mar 2005

Blur, curated by Steven Alderton, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Brisbane, Queensland

The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

If the walls could talk: Tony Clark, Callum Morton, David Noonan, Kathy Temin and Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Critical Mass, Transit Gallery, Belgium

Gallery artists in new space, Giordano Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

La Flora, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia; travelled to Atlanta

George Keyt Foundation International Artists' Camp 2004, Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ruby Ranch, Arizona, New Mexico, curated Dr. Patricia Frederick

George Keyt Foundation International Artist's Camp 2004, 'The Village,' Habarana, Sri Lanka and subsequent exhibition Harold Peiris Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Blur, curated by Steven Alderton, Redland Art Gallery, Redland Shire Council, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

2004 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), Grafton Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

Portrait show, University of Queensland, Brisbane; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Australia

Bendigo Art Prize, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Children (Four artists), Galerie Transit, Belgium

Brussels Art Fair, Belgium

Group Show, MUKA, Auckland, New Zealand

Group Show, Annina Nosei, New York, USA

Summer Show, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany

StArt: arte e sport a Cavalese, Centro Arte Contemporanea di Cavalese, Trento, Italy

Speilhoven Project, Belgium

Brussels Art Fair, Belgium

MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

MCA Unpacked, Queensland University Art Gallery, Brisbane (touring exhibition)

In Conversation, The VanVliet Collection of international contemporary art with artworks from the collection of The University of Queensland, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003)

Frankfurt Art Fair, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf

Parallel Structures, a David Pestorious Project, Southbank, Brisbane & 200 Gertrude Street Artists Spaces, Melbourne

Transit Narratives, Staff of Selected Australian Universities, touring Italy

Vessel….vehicle of promise, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (touring exhibition)

Summer Invitational, Annina Nosei, New York, U.S.A.
Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, U.K.

Annina Nosei at Bologna Art Fair, Italy
Group Exhibition, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

VOXXX, Chemnitz
Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Kelowna Museum, British Columbia, Canada
Gallery Artists, Annina Nosei, New York
Art Basel 28'97, Basel, Switzerland
Art Apero Bildzauber, Fabien Walter Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Hotel on Fire: Brad Buckley, Genevieve Cadieux, Via Lewandowsky, Ken Lum,
Jenny Watson, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada

Telstra Adelaide Festival, Adelaide

Basel International Art Fair '96, Basel , Switzerland

Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

Natural Dialogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Canberra School of Art, Canberra
One World: Many Visions, In Celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the United Nations,
Silvermine Guild Arts Centre Gallery, New Canaan, CT

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
The Body, The Human Measure, Galerie Gaby Kraushar, Dusseldorf
Confess and Conceal, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Australian Centre,
Manila, Philippines; Australian Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia
Yoshida Gallery, 1994 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
Power Works from the M.C.A. Collection, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongaarewa, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (1995)

Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Sue Crockford Gallery, New Zealand
Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, & Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Confess and Conceal, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, National Gallery of Art, Singapore,
National Gallery of Art, Bangkok, Thailand
Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Sinnlich, Janine Mautsch Galerie, Cologne

Early and Recent Work by 8 Contemporary Artists, City Gallery, Melbourne
Off the Wall / In the Air: a Seventies Selection, Monash University; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Aufzeichnung, Janine Mautsch Galerie, Cologne
Personal Portraits, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Centre, Queensland

City Gallery at ARCO'90, Madrid, Spain
Defective Models - Australian Portraiture 19^th & 20^th Centuries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Art With Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2^nd Australian Contemporary Art Fair, City Gallery, Melbourne
Alice 125, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne State College, Melbourne
Mornington Peninsula Print Prize, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery
Portia Geach Art Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
15^th Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Art Centre, West Australia
1990 Diamond Valley Art Award, Diamond Valley Shire Offices, Greensborough

Phase Zone Three, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Work 1968 - 1988, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and subsequent tour: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany & Stuttgart, Wurttembergische Kunsterverein (1989), West Germany

Chaos, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Paperworks by Seven, Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane
Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Art 1965 - 1985 (Field to Figuration), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
John McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Images of Childhood, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Sixth Triennale of India, Dehli, India (awarded Gold Medal)
Forbidden Objects, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Queensland Works, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
Isolaustralia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Artists Books, Anzart in New Zealand, Auckland
Close Remarks, Artspace, Sydney
3^rd Internationale Triennale der Zaichnung, Stadt Kunsthalle, Nurnberg
Peace Biennale, Kunstmuseum & Kunsthaus, Hamburg

Form - Image - Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Apocalypse + Utopia, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne; Art Projects, Melbourne
5^th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Dreams and Nightmares, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Symbols, Emblems, Signatures: Australian Drawings 1984, Govett-Brewster Gallery,
New Plymouth, New Zealand

Robert MacPherson, Jenny Watson, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Art Projects, Melbourne
A Melbourne Mood; Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A., Zona Firenze, Italy
Drawing from the Face and Figure, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne

From Another Continent, Australia, the Dream & the Real, ARCII Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Australian Art in Amsterdam, Galerie Biederberg Muller, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70's & 80's, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Vox Pop; Into the 80's, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mattara Exhibition, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
Acquisitions 1973 -1983, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
Drawings (Schematic, Expressionist & Psychological), Art Projects, Melbourne
Against the Wall (Selections from the Michell Endowment), University Gallery, Melbourne
New Art: Selections from the Michell Endowment, Banule Gallery, Melbourne

4^th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Painting/Painting, Art Projects, Melbourne
New Painting, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
Popism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
The Temple of the Winds, N-Space, Melbourne
Australian Art of the Seventies - The Philip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The Seventies, The National Bank Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Real Super Real, Albury Art Gallery
New Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The Beacon, N Space, Sydney
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Georges' Prize, Melbourne
Alliance Francaise Fellowship Winners, Melbourne
On Paper, Survey 14, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Still Life and Still Lives, travelling throughout Australia
Works on Paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney

Still Life - Eight Women Realists, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Powell Street Gallery Artists at Cunningham-Ward, New York

Illusion & Reality, International Exhibition, Australian State Galleries

Georges' Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne

The Supernatural Natural Image, Geelong Art Gallery, McLelland Art Gallery and Ballarat Regional Gallery

TEACHING

Adjunct Professor, Painting Department, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

Private Studio

Various part-time lecturing Melbourne & Sydney

Education Department, Victoria

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

Ravenswood Art Prize, Ravenswood School for Girls, Sydney (finalist)

Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 

Marney-sur-Seine, France

Fellowship Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

Arts QLD grant for Material Evidence

New Work Grant for Child’s Play, Japan

Arts Victoria

National Works on Paper, Mornington peninsula Regional Gallery

Deakin Graham James Prize

Portia Geach Art Prize

Newcastle Art Prize (joint winner with Mike Parr)

Gold Medal Indian Triennale, Dehli

Grant to Individuals, Visual Artist Board, Australia Council

Alliance Francaise Fellowship

Georges’ Prize (shared)

Travel Grant, Visual Artist Board, Australia Council

COLLECTIONS

Yokohama Museum, Japan

RACV, Melbourne

Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale, N.S.W.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Australian Embassy, Washington
Australian Law Courts, Melbourne
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
BHP Billiton

Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Gold Coast City Council, Queensland
Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Edith Cowan University, Perth

Monash University, Clayton
Ghent Museum, Belgium
Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Yokohama, Japan

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland University, Brisbane
Ulmer Museum, Germany
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Vienna Academy of Arts and Craft, Vienna, Austria
Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council
Private and corporate collections, Australia and international

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Marina Warner, 'Bush Natural,' Parkett, Zurich, March

Ashley Crawford, 'The Artist and the Aristocrat - Jenny Watson: A Discovery of Dignity,' Follow Me, Aug/Sept No. 18

Sue Cramer, Harpers Bazaar, April

Sue Cramer, 'Vox Pop,' (review), Art & Text 12/13

Jill Montgomery, 'The French Discovery of 1983,' Art & Text, No.12 & 13

'What is this called Pop,' Australian Vogue, January

'Young Blood,' Notes on Art Practice, Art Projects

Press 5, Art Projects

Frances Lindsay, 'A Melbourne Mood,' Art & Text, No.11

Lorena Mazzocco, 'The Post-Modernist Expressions of Jenny Watson,' FASS, #3

Joanna Mendelsson, “Exhibitions - Jenny Watson”, Art Network No.10

'Recent Painting in Australia,' Flash Art, Milan, Jan

Paul Taylor, 'Art News,' Australian Vogue, October

Paul Taylor, 'Popism,' Real Life Magazine, New York, No. 9

Paul Taylor, 'Popism: The Art of White Aborigines,' On The Beach, November 1983 & Flash Art, Milan, May, 1983

Nancy Underhill, '40 ans d'art en Australie,' Art Press 74, Paris

Ashley Crawford, 'Interview,' The Virgin Press

Richard Dunn, 'The Pursuit of Meaning,' Art & Text, No.11

Maggie Gilchrist, 'Biennale of Sydney,' Art Network No.6

Bernice Murphy, 'Painting,' Australian Art Review

John Nixon, 'From a Dream,' Notes on Art Practice, Art Projects

Paul Taylor, 'Australian New Wave & the Second Degree,' Art & Text, No. 1

Paul Taylor, 'Jenny Watson's Modernism,' Art International, January/February

Janine Burke, 'Homes Beautiful,' Arts Melbourne, No. 6

Catalogues & Books:

Anna Davis, Jenny Watson: the fabric of fantasy, exh. Cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

Angela Goddard & Benedikt Stegmayer, Jenny Watson: chronicles, exh. Cat, Griffith University Art Gallery

Dr Benedikt Stegmayer, 'Autobiography as Fictive Construct: Confession, Jenny Holzer, Jenny Watson, Tracey Emin.'

Julie Ewington, Jenny Watson: telescopic vision, Contemporary Australia; women, exh. Cat, Queensland Ar Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, 2012, p.150

Chris McAuliffe, Jenny Watson; here, there and everywhere, exh cat., Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

The Idea of the Animal, exh. cat., RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Nick Mitzevich and Ross Woodrow, Drawing Centre catalogue, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Jan - March 2005

10/21, exh. cat., Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, unpaginated

Robert Lindsay, 'Jenny Watson,' Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 68

'Jenny Watson,' Blaze: Visual Art Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002, CACSA, Adelaide, p. 38

Jenny Watson: Girls, exh. cat., Gimpel Fils, London

Transit Narratives, exh. cat., selected Australian Universities, touring Italy

Desire, exh. cat., RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
MCA Unpacked, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (touring exhibition)

Stephanie Holt, trans. Paco Barragán, Jenny Watson, Anna Schwartz Gallery, ARCO 2001, Madrid.

Hanna Stegmayer, Mothership, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Gary Pearson, Haerdter, Kelowna and Micheal Hotel on Fire, Kelowna Art Gallery BC Canada

Reiter Raabe, Andreas Natural Dialogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Ben Curnow, Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Jenny Watson, Prints, exh. cat., Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

Maurizio Nanucci, Almanacco 2000, Florence

Dr Martin Stather, Jenny Watson, Scrabble and Paintings on Hessian, Mannheimer Kunstverien, Mannheim, Germany
Donald Williams & Colin Simpson, Art Now: Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw Hill, Sydney
Karin Heyl, Die Kunst in der Windmühlstraße, Dresden Bank, Germany
Robert Leonard, & Priscilla Pitts, Power Works from the M.C.A. Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Judy Annear, Jenny Watson: Paintings with Veils and False Tails; 45th Biennale of Venice, catalogue, A.E.T.A., Melbourne
Simona Lodi, Jenny Watson: Watercolours, Galleria Roberta Lietta Arte Contemporanea di Como, Como, Italy
Roberta Lietta, interview, Jenny Watson: Watercolour, Galleria Roberta Lietta Arte Contemporanea di Como, Como, Italy

Filipovna, Valerie Jenny Watson, exh. cat., Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

Artea Prearo, Milan

Janine Burke, Field of Vision: A Decade of Change, Women's Art in the Seventies, Viking

Carlo McCormick, Jenny Watson, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Jennifer Phipps et al Off the Wall / In the Air: a Seventies Selection, Monash University and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Bernice Murphy, 'Jenny Watson: fabrics, dreams and tokens' in Jenny Watson - Pleasures and Memories, Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany

John Nixon, and John Young, (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 7, Sydney, Australia

John Nixon, and John Young, (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 3, Sydney, Australia

Ted Gott, Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Victoria Lynn & Paul Taylor, Sixth Triennale - India, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney

Renate Puvogel, Brigitte Reinhardt & Hanna Stegmayer, Jenny Watson, Ulmer Museum, Galerie Manus Presse, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Marburg Universitatsmuseum, Manus Presse, Germany
Jenny Watson, Jenny Watson, Alter Egos (Sketches for Paintings) 1982 - 1985, EAF, Adelaide

Jenny Watson, Alice & the Aristocrat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Close Remarks, Artspace, Sydney

William Wright, 3rd International Triennale der Zaichnung, Stadt Kunsthalle, Nurnberg

Leon Paroissien, 'Through the Looking Glass' in Jenny Watson, Paintings & Drawings 1972 - 1985, University Gallery, University of Melbourne

Anything Goes, Australian Art in the 70's, Melbourne
Symbols, Emblems, Signatures, Australian Drawings, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand

5th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Dreams and Nightmares, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Ruth Handler, Jenny Watson: Im Gesprach mit einer fermen Vergangenheit
Mazzocco, Lorena Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, The Fifth Biennale of Sydney Ltd., Sydney

Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
A Melbourne Mood; Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery,Canberra
Leon Paroissien, & Meagan Morriss, From Another Continent: Australia The Dream and The Real, ARC II, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70's + 80's, Art Gallery of South Australia
Form - Image - Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Robert Lindsay, Vox Pop; Into the 80's, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Poignant Images, Dream Palette, 1981, Jenny Watson, Art Projects

4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales
New Painting, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
10 Years of Australian Art, Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Paul Taylor, Popism, National Gallery of Victoria
The Seventies, The National Bank Collection, National Gallery of Victoria

James Mollison, Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Achille Bonita Oliva, ed. The International Trans-Avantegarde, Milan

William Wright, & Elwyn Lynn, The Fourth Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, Biennale of Sydney

Real Super Real, Albury Art Gallery, Albury
New Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Travelling Exhibition
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales

On Paper: Survey 14, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Still Life Still Lives, Australian Regional Galleries

Illusion & Reality, Australian State Galleries

Drawings from the face and figure, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne.