Jenny Watson - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

	JENNY WATSON
1951	Born Melbourne, Australia. Currently divides her time between Brisbane Australia and Europe
1972	Diploma of Painting, National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne
1973	Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Melbourne
1978-84	Partner in Art Projects, Melbourne
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012	Tomio Koyama Gallery, Shibuya, Japan (forthcoming) Layerings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2011	Five paintings about a mobile phone, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2010	The Daisy Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Jenny Watson, CIAP, Belgium
2009	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
2008	Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm, Germany Walking the dog, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2007	Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva Star Material, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	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
2005	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, Düsseldorf, Germany Jenny Watson, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004	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
2003	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
2002	Girls, Gimpel Fils, London Jenny Watson, Paul Greenaway, Adelaide
2001	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
2000	Shelf life, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Wild East, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany
1999	Japan '99, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1998	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.
1997	The Bear Facts, Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium Mothership, Giordano Raffaeli, Trento, Italy
1996	Marburger University Museum, Germany Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995	Made in Europe, Ulmer Museum, Germany Rosenheim farm, Rosenheim Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany Gramency Park Paintings, Manus Presse, Stuttgart, Germany Gaby Kranshaar, Düsseldorf, Germany History / Hysterie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Minimalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, 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
1994	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, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993	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
1992	Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991	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
1990	Pleasures and Memories, Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany
1989	Fables, Pastoral and Present, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1988	City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1987	The Mad Room, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1986	Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1985	University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1984	Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
1983	Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1982	Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
1981	Q Space Annex, Brisbane Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
1980	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
1978	Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1977	Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1975	Abraxas Gallery, Canberra, Australia Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1974	Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1973	Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013	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.
2012	Contemporary Australia Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Kindness/Udarta: Australia-India Cultural Exchange, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
2011	Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne PICA Salon 2011, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2010	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
2008	The Brisbane Sound, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007	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
2006	The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2005	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
2004	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
2003	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
2002	Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003) Frankfurt Art Fair, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf Parallel Structures, a David Pestorious Project, Southbank, Brisbane & 200 Gertrude Street Artists Spaces, Melbourne Transit Narratives, Staff of Selected Australian Universities, touring Italy
2001	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)
2000	Summer Invitational, Annina Nosei, New York, U.S.A. Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, U.K.
1999	Annina Nosei at Bologna Art Fair, Italy Group Exhibition, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998	VOXXX, Chemnitz Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997	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
1996	Telstra Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Basel International Art Fair `96, Basel , Switzerland Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
1995	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
1994	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)
1993	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
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, 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
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, Germany & Stuttgart, Wurttembergische Kunsterverein (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, 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
1984	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
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
1983	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
1982	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
1981	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
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 at Cunningham-Ward, New York
1977	Illusion & Reality, International Exhibition, Australian State Galleries
1975	Georges' Invitation Art Prize, Georges, Melbourne
1974	The Supernatural Natural Image, Geelong Art Gallery, McLelland Art Gallery and Ballarat Regional Gallery
	TEACHING
2002	currently Adjunct Professor, Painting Department, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
1981-1986	Private Studio
1977-2002	Various part-time lecturing Melbourne & Sydney
1974-1977	Education Department, Victoria
	AWARDS
1975	Georges' Prize (shared) Travel Grant, Visual Artist Board, Australia Council
1979	Alliance Francaise Fellowship
1980	Grant to Individuals, Visual Artist Board, Australia Council
1986	Gold Medal Indian Triennale, Dehli
1987	Newcastle Art Prize (joint winner with Mike Parr)
1990	Portia Geach Art Prize
1997	Deakin Graham James Prize
2000	Arts Victoria National Works on Paper, Mornington peninsula Regional Gallery
2003	New Work Grant for Child's Play, Japan
2005	Arts QLD grant for Material Evidence
2005-06	Fellowship Grant, Visual Arts 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
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	Articles:
2012	Julie Ewington, Think big, and be loud - Three Generations of Australian Female Artists, Art & Australia, 49, No.3, pp.448-455 Judy Annear, 'Jenny Watson; painter of the mirror', MCA Collection Volume One, (Sydney: MCA, 2012) pp432-440 Eve Sullivan, Jenny Watson: Here, there and everywhere, Art Monthly, October, 2012
2007	Rebecca Geldard, `Innocence and Experience,' Time Out , London, 17 May
2004	Louise Martin-Chew, `Fabulous fabric of frivolity,' The Australian, Tuesday August 2, p.14 (Arts) Randime Attygalie, `Beauty of difference,' Sunday Times, Sri Lanka, October `Jenny Watson,' Dumbo feather, pass it on., issue 2, p.32 - 49 Ken Bolton, `Australian Women Artists: Sailing to Tahiti,' Jamini: International Arts Quarterly, November, p.68 - 79 Ivor Indyk, `The Art of the Detail: Angels, Mrs Peel, Maybelline & A Long Night of the Soul,' Heat, No. 7 (Bedtime Stories), edited by Ivor Indyk, Giramondo Publishing Company, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, p.97 - 112 Glenis Israel, senior artwise: visual arts 7-10, 2^nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Qld. pp.170-1
2003	Hiroko Nishimura, “Looking back, Memories guide artist's deft hand,” Herald Tribune (Weekend Beat) Stephen Naylor, `Getting into the Giardini di Castello: Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale,' Art & Australia, 40^th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, p. 594 - 601 Mark Titmarsh, `Time and Tide: Decadal Shifts in Australian contemporary art,' Art Monthly Australia #160, June, p. 16 - 19 Dean, Bec, `Perth Festival visual arts: local heroes,' RealTime + OnScreen, April - May, p. 30
2002	Crawford, Ashley `Days of Wine and Tension,' Art Monthly Australia, June, Issue 150, pp. 27 - 30
2001	Courtney Kidd, `Feminine Funky,' Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Wednesday, March 14, p. 20 McAuliffe, Dr.Chris, `Keep on rockin' in the art world,' LIKE, No. 15, p. 30
2000	`Jenny Watson,' Australian Art Collector, issue 11, January - March, p. 92
1999	William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, p. 108-9, 142-3 Virginia Fraser, `Opinion Contest,' Art Monthly Australia, March 1999, no. 117, p. 21-23
1998	Sue Hubbard, `Jenny Watson: Seven Ages of a Playboy Bunny,' Time Out, London, June/July
1997	Peter Timms, `Grungy Winner,' Herald Sun (Arts & Entertainment), Wednesday June 25
1996	Ruth Händler, `Jenny Watson: Ulmer Museum,' ART, das Kunstmagazin, No. 3 March Sarah Thomas, `Raking Through Compost,' BROADsheet, Volume 25, No. 2, Winter
1994	Cotter, Holland `The Discreet Charm of Ingeniousness,' The New York Times, 30th September Carmel Dwyer, `Creator of her own world,' Sydney Morning Herald, June 29, Ariella Giulivi, `Jenny Watson,' exh. Cat., Tema Celeste Arte Contemporanea, No. 44, Milan, Summer
1993	Judy Annear, `Complex Desires,' Vogue Australia, Sydney, June Ruth Bass, `Jenny Watson,' exhibition review, ARTnews, Vol. 92, No. 4, New York, April Robert Hughes, `Incoherence at the Biennale,' Time Australia, Sydney, June 28, Maria Prendergast, `Paintings with Veils and False Tails,' Panorama, Melbourne, May Keith Seward, `Paintings with Bowler Hats and Bottles,' Artforum, Vol. 31, No. 6, New York, February
1992	Anne Leithäuser, `Jenny Watson,' Artist Kunstmagazine, No. 10/11, Bremen, Germany, February
1991	Betsy Brennan, `Art,' Vogue Living, October Ashley Crawford, `Jenny Watson,' Art and Australia, February Janet Hawley, `Mod Squad,' Good Weekend, The Age Magazine, Melbourne, September 14, 1991 Marina Warner, `Bush Natural,' Parkett, Zurich, March
1985	Ashley Crawford, `The Artist and the Aristocrat - Jenny Watson: A Discovery of Dignity,' Follow Me, Aug/Sept No. 18 Sue Cramer, Harpers Bazaar, April
1984	Sue Cramer, `Vox Pop,' (review), Art & Text 12/13 Jill Montgomery, `The French Discovery of 1983,' Art & Text, No.12 & 13
1983	`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
1982	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
1981	Paul Taylor, `Australian New Wave & the Second Degree,' Art & Text, No. 1 Paul Taylor, `Jenny Watson's Modernism,' Art International, January/February
Year not known	Janine Burke, `Homes Beautiful,' Arts Melbourne, No. 6
	Catalogues & Books:
2006	The Idea of the Animal, exh. cat., RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2005	Nick Mitzevich and Ross Woodrow, Drawing Centre catalogue, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Jan - March 2005
2004	10/21, exh. cat., Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, unpaginated
2003	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
2002	Jenny Watson: Girls, exh. cat., Gimpel Fils, London Transit Narratives, exh. cat., selected Australian Universities, touring Italy
2001	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.
1997	Hanna Stegmayer, Mothership, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy Gary Pearson, Haerdter, Kelowna and Micheal Hotel on Fire, Kelowna Art Gallery BC Canada
1995	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
1994	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
1993	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
1992	Filipovna, Valerie Jenny Watson, exh. cat., Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1991	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
1990	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
1988	John Nixon, and John Young, (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 3, Sydney, Australia
1987	Ted Gott, Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986	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
1985	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
1984	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
1983	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
1982	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
1981	Real Super Real, Albury Art Gallery, Albury New Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Travelling Exhibition Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1980	On Paper: Survey 14, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1979	Still Life Still Lives, Australian Regional Galleries
1977	Illusion & Reality, Australian State Galleries
Year not known	Drawings from the face and figure, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne.