mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson

'Judy Watson: dropping into water slowly', aGOG australian Girls Own Gallery 1992 'Judy Watson: well-stone', Mori Gallery 1991 'Judy Watson: under the bloodwood, looking', Mori Gallery 'Judy Watson', Deutscher, Brunswick Street, Melbourne 'Judy Watson: inspiration – expiration', aGOG australian Girls Own Gallery 1990 'Judy Watson: Artist in Residence – Studio One', Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 'Judy Watson: groundwork', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1989 'Judy Watson: a sacred place for these bones', Central Theatres Gallery, Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, Brisbane 1988 'Judy Watson: bloodlines', Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney 1986 'Judy Watson: bath icons', Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Vic. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 'My Oma', Kunstinstituute Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Mare Amoris | Sea of Love', UQ Art Museum 'Shadow Spirit: RISING', Flinders Street Station, Melbourne 'Gone Fishing', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art '14th Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Weak like Water', Gwangju, South Korea 2022 'Yves Klein: Dreaming in the Dream of Others', Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland 'Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 'Judy Watson and Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends' [touring exhibition], National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Museum of Art and Culture, yapang, Lake Macquarie (MAC yapang), NSW 'Réclaimer la terre – Reclaim the Earth: Megan Cope, D Harding, Judy Watson', Palais de Tokyo, Paris 'Making Place: 100 Views of Brisbane', Museum of Brisbane 2021 'Un/learning Australia', Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea 'Final Call', Horizon Festival, Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Sunshine Coast, Qld 'Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia' [touring exhibition], Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery Singapore; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki, Aotearoa NZ 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992', Tate Modern, London 'The National 2021: New Australian Art', Art Gallery of New South Wales 'On Fire: Climate and Crisis', Institute of Modern Art 'Works from the Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art', St Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA 'djillong dumularra: Carol McGregor and Judy Watson', Artspace, Sydney (in partnership with Sydney Festival) 2020 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', TarraWarra Museum of Art [touring exhibition with NETS Victoria]: Flinders University Museum of Art, SA; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Vic.; Mildura Arts Centre, Vic.; Wangaratta Art Gallery, Vic. 'KnowMy Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now', National Gallery of Australia 'First', Redcliffe Art Gallery, Qld 'Rite of Passage', QUT Art Museum; touring to NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns 'Résonances: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Contemporary Art', Fondation Opale 'Notes on Perception', Milani Gallery 2019 'Australia: Antipodean Stories', PAC | Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan 'Water', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 'TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', Art Gallery of South Australia 'Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future: 15th Anniversary Exhibition', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 'NewWoman', Museum of Brisbane 'Legacy: Reflections on Mabo' Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Qld [touring exhibition with Museums & Galleries Queensland]; Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Qld; Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW; Burrinja Cultural Centre, Melbourne; Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA; Nautilus Arts Centre, Port Lincoln, SA; Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Qld; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney 'I, Object', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 'Stolen/Wealth: A Fresh Look at the Impacts of Colonialism', Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Vic. 2018 'Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial', Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA) Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne 'Myall Creek and Beyond', New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW [touring exhibition]; University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery, Sippy Downs, Qld; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra 'Hunter Red: Re(a)d Earth', Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 'The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine', Medical History Museum, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 'Colony: Frontier Wars', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2017 'water + wisdom Australia India', RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne 'As Far as the Eye Can See' [touring exhibition], Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba, NSW; Logan Art Gallery, Qld; Noosa Regional Gallery; Redcliffe Art Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW; Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas.; Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Vic.; Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA; Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW 'TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', Art Gallery of South Australia 'Experimenta Make Sense: The International Triennial of Media Art' [touring exhibition], RMIT Gallery; The Lock-Up, Newcastle, NSW; Plimsoll Gallery; Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Vic.; University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery; New England Regional Art Museum; Albury Library Museum, Albury, NSW 'Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 'BLOOD: Attract and Repel', Science Gallery, The University of Melbourne '6th Artists' Books + Multiples Fair', Project Gallery and WEBB Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane '& So . . . Artists' Books and Multiples from the Centre for the Artist Book', Queensland College of Art Library, Griffith University 'Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial' [touring exhibition], National Gallery of Australia; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; UQ Art Museum; Western Plains Cultural Centre; Mildura Arts Centre, Vic.; Australian National Maritime Museum 'The Dust Never Settles', UQ Art Museum 2016 'Sugar Spin: You, me, art and everything', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 'Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography', AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, The Netherlands 'Zero Metres Above Sea Level: Marrnyula Munungurr, Rerrkirrwana Munungurr, Judy Watson', The Cross Art Projects, Sydney SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 'mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson', Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 2023 'Judy Watson: shadow bone', Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA 'Judy Watson: bagging colonialism', Cairns Art Gallery, Qld 'Judy Watson: skeletons', Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, Qld 'Judy Watson: indigo spine', Milani Gallery, Brisbane 2022 'Judy Watson: skeletons', Queensland State Archives, Brisbane 2021 'water under the bridge, tumamum', cliff-face projection, Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane 'death of a warrior in black and white, light and shade', video projection as part of 'Location, Location, Location', Outer Space, Brisbane 'Judy Watson: the skin of painting', Milani Gallery (screening room) 2020 'Judy Watson: memory scars, dreams and gardens', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 'Judy Watson', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (in partnership with TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Vic.) 2019 'Judy Watson: bodies of water and melting snow', Milani Gallery 2018 'Judy Watson: the edge of memory', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 'Judy Watson: the keepers', Milani Gallery 'Judy Watson: concealed histories', UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 2016 'Judy Watson: indigo and ochre', Tolarno Galleries 'Judy Watson: the names of places', Green Screen, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 'Judy Watson: a case study', Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW 'Judy Watson: the scarifier', TarraWarra Museum of Art 2015 'Judy Watson: the holes in the land', grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane 'Judy Watson: heron island suite / experimental beds', Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld 2014 'Judy Watson: heron island suite / sacred ground beating heart / experimental beds', Noosa Regional Gallery 2013 'Judy Watson: experimental beds', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, presented by grahame galleries + editions 2012 'Judy Watson: shell', Milani Gallery 'Judy Watson: experimental beds', Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA 'Judy Watson: experimental beds', grahame galleries + editions 'Judy Watson: waterline', Tolarno Galleries 'Judy Watson: heron island suite', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Qld 2011 'Judy Watson: heron island suite', Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia 'Judy Watson: waterline', Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA 2010 'Judy Watson: heron island suite 2009/2010', grahame galleries + editions 'Judy Watson: heron island suite' [touring exhibition], toured regional venues in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia 2009 'Judy Watson: heron island', UQ Art Museum 'Judy Watson: bad and doubtful debts', Milani Gallery 2008 'Judy Watson: blood language', GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney 'Judy Watson: in the shadows of goya, aotearoa and the museum', Tolarno Galleries 2007 'Judy Watson: in the shadows of goya', Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 'Judy Watson: a complicated fall', Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane 2006 'Judy Watson: shell', GRANTPIRRIE 2005 'Judy Watson: selected works 1990– 2005', UQ Art Museum 2004 'Judy Watson: swallowing culture' [touring exhibition], Next Gallery, Brisbane; Southern Cross University Gallery, Lismore, NSW; Bellas Milani Gallery 'Judy Watson: conchology', Helen Maxwell Gallery 2003 'sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989–2003' [touring exhibition], John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth; Institute of Modern Art; Asialink tour: Saigon South Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Finomenal Space Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; and regional galleries in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia 2002 'Judy Watson: blue vessel', Tolarno Galleries 'Judy Watson: country', Monash Centre, Prato, Italy 'Judy Watson', The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA 2001 'Judy Watson: cumulus', 24HR Art – Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 'Judy Watson: cumulus', Mori Gallery, Sydney 'Judy Watson – an exhibition of prints', grahame galleries + editions 2000 'Judy Watson: visceral memory', Tolarno Galleries 1999 'Judy Watson', Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne 1998 'Judy Watson: driftnet', McDougall Contemporary Art Annexe, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, Aotearoa NZ 'Judy Watson: shoal', Mori Gallery, Sydney 1997 'Judy Watson: lure', Milburn Gallery, Brisbane 'Judy Watson: cupping', aGOG australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra 'Judy Watson: running water works', Fisher Gallery, Manukau City, Aotearoa NZ 1996 'Judy Watson: between islands', Mori Gallery 'Judy Watson: across country', Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris [Moët & Chandon Fellowship Exhibition] 'Judy Watson: lithographs, etchings and monoprints', Australian Print Workshop Gallery 1994 'Judy Watson', Mori Gallery 'Judy Watson', Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India 'Judy Watson', Bharat-Bhavan Art Centre, Bhopal, India 'Judy Watson', Edith Cowan University, Perth 1993 'Judy Watson: the artist's studio', Art Gallery of New South Wales Selected exhibition history 219 218