GREENAWAY ART GALLERY  

 

JENNY WATSON   work cv essay  

 

BIOGRAPHY

 
1951 Born in Melbourne, Australia
1972
Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne, Australia
1973 Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1978-84
Partner in Art Projects, Melbourne, (Artist run space)
2002 Adjunct Professor, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Australia
Teaching  
1973-86 Education Department + Tertiary Colleges – Australia
1988-89 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1997-2000 Various Lectures, External Assessor and Teaching Sessions at Sydney College of the Arts,
RMIT and VCA
2000-01 QCA, Griffith University, Morningside/Gold Coast Campuses
2002-08 Adjunct Professor, QCA,Griffith University, Southbank/Gold Coast Campuses
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2008 Undercover, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm Germany
2007 Illusionations, Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva, Switzerland
Star Material, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006 Vintage Paintings and New Watercolours, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
Paris Fashion Week, Peloton Galleries, Sydney
Cool World, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Works made in Sri Lanka, Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Material Evidence, DELL Gallery, QCA, Brisbane
2004 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2003 IASKA, Kellerberrin, Perth, Australia
Child’s Play, Yokohama Musem of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Hatano Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
gimpel fils ltd, London, UK
2001 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Kelowna Art Museum, B.C. Canada
Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998 gimpel fils ltd, London, UK
Dina Carolla, Naples, Italy
Hanoi College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Universitätsmuseum, Marburg, Germany
Studio d’arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
manus presse, Stuttgart, Germany
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Köln, Germany
Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
1994 Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1993 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Köln, Germany
Galerie Roberta Lietti, Como, Italy
45th Biennale of Venice, Australian Pavilion, Italy
Galerie von Witzleben, Karlsruhe, Germany
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
1992 Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
Meppener Kunstkreis, Meppen, Germany
City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1990 Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2008 Scope Basel (Greenaway Art Gallery stand), Switzerland
The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007 National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2007, UQ, Brisbane
Art Brussels 2007, Brussels, Belgium
Art 38 Basel, with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Switzerland
2007 Milano Art Fair, with Giordano Raffaelli, Italy
Innocence and Experience, Gimpel Fils, London
Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2006 The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2005 So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star, Paintings from the NGV Shell Collection, NGV touring exhibition
10/21 - VCA at the Venice Biennale, VCA, Melbourne
Drawing Centre, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Blur, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Brisbane
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Melbourne
If the walls could talk, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Critical Mass, Transit Gallery, Belgium
Gallery artists in new space, Giordano Raffaelli, Italy
Castellón Painting Prize, Municipal Art Centre of Alcorcon, Madrid
2004 Parental Guidance Recommended, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
Fuoriluogo 9, una moderna babele, Pinacoteca Dinamica, Campobasso, Italy
2003 START, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Calvese, Italy
2001 parallel structures, David Pestorius project,Southbank, Brisbane
Speilhoven Project, Belgium
Group Show, Annina Nosei
2000 Spin Me Round, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Mommy Dearest, gimpel fils ltd, London, UK
1999 Galerie Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark
Drawing + Object, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Axel Holm Galerie, Ulm, Germany
1998 Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Drawings, Annina Nosei, New York, USA
Museum of San Marino, Italy
The Book of Lies Project, Eugenia Butler, Los Angeles, USA
Hotel on Fire, Kelowna Museum, Canada
1996 Andere Orte, various venues, Germany
1994 Works on paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
The human measure, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993-94 Confess and Conceal, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Art, Singapore
National Gallery of Art, Bangkok
National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Australian Centre, Manila
Australian Embassy, Jakarta
1993 Prospect, Kunstverein Frankfurt + Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt
Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
 
AWARDS  
2005 Fellowship, Visual Arts Board
Project Grant, Arts Queensland
1999 Semifinalist, “Parque de la Memoria”, Sculpture Prize, Argentina
1997 Residency, Chemnitz, Germany July 1998
Deacons Graham & James award residency in Tokyo - January, February 1999
Residency, College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam December 1997 - March 1998
1990 Portia Geach Art Prize
1987 Newcastle Art Prize (joint winner with Mike Parr)
1986 Gold Medal, Indian Triennale, Delhi
1984 Half Standard Grant, Visual Arts Board
1980 Grant to Individuals, Visual Arts Board
1979 Alliance Francaise Fellowship
1975 Georges' Prize (shared) Travel Grant, Visual Arts Board
 
COLLECTIONS  

Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale NSW; 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; Monash University, Clayton; Ghent Museum, Belgium; Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; 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