JENNY WATSON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013                  
Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 

2012
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Newport 
Contemporary Australia: Women, GOMA, Brisbane 

2011
A Different Temporality, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2010
We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Melbourne / Brisbane: punk, art and after, The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne

2009
Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian Artists and the Literary World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2008
The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2007
National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2007, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Art Brussels 2007, Belgium
Art 38 Basel, with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Basel
2007 Milano Art Fair, with Giordano Raffaelli, Milan
Bendigo Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery's Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
Innocence and Experience, Gimpel Fils, London
Cut `N' Paste, Peloton Galleries, Sydney, 18 April - 12 May
Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney

2006
Heart and Mind, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2005
Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
If these walls could talk (Tony Clark, Callum Morton, David Noonan, Kathy Temin, Jenny Watson), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Drawing Centre, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle


2004
Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Blur, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland
Imaging the apple, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
NGV: Australia, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne

2003
Art, Design and the Written Word, Post Master Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
Nick Cave: The Good Son, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne
Parallel Structures: A David Pestorius Project, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

2001
Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2000
Monochromes, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Summer Invitational, Annina Nosei, New York
Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London

1999
Annina Nosei at Bologna Art Fair, Italy
Group Exhibition, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen

1998
VOXXX, Chemnitz
Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1997
Kelowna Museum, British Columbia
Gallery Artists, Annina Nosei, New York
Art Basel 28'97, Basel
Art Apero Bildzauber, Fabien Walter Galerie, Basel
Hotel on Fire: Brad Buckley, Genevieve Cadieux, Via Lewandowsky, Ken Lum, Jenny Watson, Kelowna Art Gallery, Canada

1996
Telstra Adelaide Festival, South Australia
Basel International Art Fair '96, Basel
Cologne Art Fair, Germany

1995
Natural Dialogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Canberra School of Art, Australian Capital Territory
One World: Many Visions, In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, Silvermine Guild Arts Centre Gallery, New Canaan

1994
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
The Body, The Human Measure, Galerie Gaby Kraushar, Dusseldorf
Yoshida Gallery, 1994 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya
Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel
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, New Zealand (1995)

1993
Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya
Sue Crockford Gallery, New Zealand
Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, & Schirn Kunsthalle, Germany
Confess and Conceal, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, National Gallery of Art, Singapore National Gallery of Art, Bangkok, touring 1994 National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Australian Centre, Manila; Australian Embassy, Jakarta
Wit’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1992
Sinnlich, Janine Mautsch Galerie, Cologne

1991
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

1990
City Gallery at ARCO’90, Madrid
Defective Models - Australian Portraiture 19th & 20th Centuries, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Art With Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2nd 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
15th Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Art Centre, West Australia

1990
Diamond Valley Art Award, Diamond Valley Shire Offices, Greensborough

1988
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 & Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer
Kunstverein (1989), West Germany

1987
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

1986
Sixth Triennale of India, Dehli, India (Awarded Gold Medal)
Forbidden Objects, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1985
Visual Tension, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Queensland Works, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane
Isolaustralia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
Artists Books, Anzart in New Zealand, Auckland
Close Remarks, Artspace, Sydney
3rd Internationale Triennale der Zeichnung, Stadt Kunsthalle, Nurnberg
Peace Biennale, Kunstmuseum & Kunsthaus, Hamburg

1984
Form - Image - Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Apocalypse + Utopia, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne; Art Projects, Melbourne
5th 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

1983
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
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, New South Wales
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

1982
4th 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

1981
Real Super Real, Albury Art Gallery, New South Wales
New Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Beacon, N Space, Sydney
Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1980
Georges’ Prize, Melbourne
Alliance Francaise Fellowship Winners, Melbourne
On Paper, Survey 14, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1979
Still Life and Still Lives, travelling throughout Australia Works on Paper, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1978
Still Life - Eight Women Realists, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Powell Street Gallery Artists, Cunningham-Ward, New York

1977
Illusion & Reality, International Exhibition, Australian State Galleries

1975
Georges’ Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne
The Supernatural Natural Image, Geelong Art Gallery, McLelland Park and Art Gallery & Ballarat Regional Gallery