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
2008	Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm, Germany
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, Australia 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 Pavillion, Venice Biennale Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Australian Pavillion, 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
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 rganized 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 ArtsCentre 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, Kaula 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 and 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:
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, 2001, 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	Händler, Ruth “Jenny Watson: Ulmer Museum”, ART, das Kunstmagazin, No. 3 March 1996 Sarah, Thomas "Raking Through Compost", BROADsheet, Volume 25, No. 2, Winter 1996
1994	Cotter, Holland “The Discreet Charm of Ingeniousness” The New York Times, 30th September 1994 Dwyer, Carmel “Creator of her own world”, Sydney Morning Herald, June 29, 1994 Giulivi, Ariella “Jenny Watson”, exhibition review, Tema Celeste Arte Contemporanea, No. 44, Milan, Summer 1994
1993	Annear, Judy “Complex Desires”, Vogue Australia, Sydney, June 1993 Bass, Ruth “Jenny Watson”, exhibition review, ARTnews, Vol. 92, No. 4, New York, April 1993 Hughes, Robert “Incoherence at the Biennale”, Time Australia, Sydney, June 28, 1993 Prendergast, Maria “Paintings with Veils and False Tails”, Panorama, Melbourne, May 1993 Seward, Keith “Paintings with Bowler Hats and Bottles”, Artforum, Vol. 31, No. 6, New York, February 1993
1992	Leithäuser, Anne “Jenny Watson”, Artist Kunstmagazine, No. 10/11, Bremen, Germany, February 1992
1991	Brennan, Betsy “Art”, Vogue Living, October 1991 Crawford, Ashley “Jenny Watson”, Art and Australia, February, 1991 Hawley, Janet “Mod Squad”, Good Weekend, The Age Magazine, Melbourne, Septemebr 14, 1991 Warner, Marina “Bush Natural”, Parkett, Zurich, March 1991
1985	Crawford, Ashley “The Artist and the Aristocrat - Jenny Watson: A Discovery of Dignity”, Follow Me, Aug/Sept No. 18, 1985 Cramer, Sue Harpers Bazaar, April, 1985
1984	Cramer, Sue “Vox Pop”, (Review), Art & Text 12/13, 1984 Jill Montgomery, “The French Discovery of 1983,” Art & Text, No.12 & 13, 1984
1983	“What is this called Pop”, Australian Vogue, January 1983 “Young Blood”, Notes on Art Practice, Art Projects, 1983 Press 5, Art Projects, 1983 Lindsay, Frances “A Melbourne Mood”, Art & Text, No.11, 1983 Mazzocco, Lorena “The Post-Modernist Expressions of Jenny Watson”, FASS, #3, 1983 Mendelsson, Joanna “Exhibitions - Jenny Watson”, Art Network No.10, 1983 “Recent Painting in Australia”, Flash Art, Milan, Jan.1983 Taylor, Paul “Art News”, Australian Vogue, October, 1983 Taylor, Paul “Popism”, Real Life Magazine, New York, No. 9,1983 Taylor, Paul “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	Crawford, Ashley “Interview”, The Virgin Press, 1982 Dunn, Richard “The Pursuit of Meaning”, Art & Text, No.11, 1982 Gilchrist, Maggie “Biennale of Sydney”, Art Network No.6, 1982Murphy, Bernice “Painting”, Australian Art Review, 1982 Nixon, John “From a Dream”, Notes on Art Practice, Art Projects, 1982
1981	Taylor, Paul “Australian New Wave & the Second Degree”, Art & Text, No. 1, 1981 Taylor, Paul “Jenny Watson's Modernism”, Art International, January/February 1981
Year not known	Burke, Janine “Homes Beautiful”, Arts Melbourne, No. 6
	Catalogues & Books:
2006	The Idea of the Animal, exhibition catalogue, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2005	Nick Mitzevich and Ross Woodrow, Drawing Centre catalogue, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Jan - March 2005
2004	10/21 exhibition catalogue, 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	Stegmayer, Hanna Mothership, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy, 1997 Pearson,Gary; Haerdter, Kelowna and Micheal Hotel on Fire, Kelowna Art Gallery BC Canada, 1997
1995	Reiter Raabe, Andreas Natural Dialogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1995 Curnow, Ben Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1995 Jenny Watson, Prints, catalogue, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 1995 Nanucci, Maurizio Almanacco 2000, Florence, 1995
1994	Stather, Dr Martin Jenny Watson, Scrabble and Paintings on Hessian, Mannheimer Kunstverien, Mannheim, Germany, 1994 Williams, Donald & Simpson, Colin Art Now: Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw Hill, Sydney, 1994 Heyl, Karin Die Kunst in der Windmühlstraße, Dresden Bank, Germany, 1994 Leonard, Robert & Pitts, Priscilla Power Works from the M.C.A. Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1994
1993	Annear, Judy Jenny Watson: Paintings with Veils and False Tails; 45th Biennale of Venice, catalogue, A.E.T.A., Melbourne, 1993 Lodi, Simona Jenny Watson: Watercolours, Galleria Roberta Lietta Arte Contemporanea di Como, Como, Italy, 1993 Lietta, Roberta interview, Jenny Watson: Watercolour, Galleria Roberta Lietta Arte Contemporanea di Como, Como, Italy, 1993
1992	Filipovna, Valerie Jenny Watson, catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1992
1991	Artea Prearo, Milan, 1991 Burke, Janine, Field of Vision: A Decade of Change, Women's Art in the Seventies, Viking, 1991 McCormick, Carlo Jenny Watson, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1991 Phipps, Jennifer et al Off the Wall / In the Air: a Seventies Selection, Monash University and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1991
1990	Murphy, Bernice “Jenny Watson: fabrics, dreams and tokens” in Jenny Watson - Pleasures and Memories, Galerie Hilger, Frankfurt, Germany, 1990 Nixon, John and Young, John (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 7, Sydney, Australia, 1990
1988	Nixon, John and Young, John (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 3, Sydney, Australia, 1988
1987	Gott, Ted Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987
1986	Lynn, Victoria & Taylor, Paul Sixth Triennale- India, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney, 1986 Puvogel, Renate , Reinhardt, Brigitte & Stegmayer, Hanna Jenny Watson, Ulmer Museum, Galerie Manus Presse, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Marburg Universitatsmuseum,Manus Presse,Germany, 1996 Watson, Jenny Jenny Watson, Alter Egos (Sketches for Paintings) 1982 - 1985, EAF, Adelaide, 1986
1985	Jenny Watson, Alice & the Aristocrat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Close Remarks, Artspace, Sydney, 1985 Wright, William 3rd International Triennale der Zaichnung, Stadt Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, 1985 Paroissien, Leon “Through the Looking Glass” in Jenny Watson, Paintings & Drawings 1972 - 1985, University Gallery , University of Melbourne, 1985
1984	Anything Goes, Australian Art in the 70's, Melbourne, 1984 Symbols, Emblems, Signatures, Australian Drawings, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1984 5th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1984 Dreams and Nightmares, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1984 Handler, Ruth Jenny Watson: Im Gesprach mit einer fermen Vergangenheit Mazzocco, Lorena Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, The Fifth Biennale of Sydney Ltd., Sydney, 1984
1983	Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983 Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1983 Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1983 A Melbourne Mood; Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery,Canberra, 1983 Paroissien, Leon & Morriss, Meagan From Another Continent: Australia The Dream and the Real, ARC II, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983 Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70's + 80's, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1983 Form - Image - Sign, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983 Lindsay, Robert Vox Pop; Into the 80's, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1983 Poignant Images, Dream Palette, 1981, Jenny Watson, Art Projects, 1983
1982	4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982 New Painting, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1982 10 Years of Australian Art, Phillip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1982 Taylor, Paul Popism, National Gallery of Victoria, 1982 The Seventies, The National Bank Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, 1982 Mollison, James Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1982 Oliva , Achille Bonita Ed. The International Trans-Avantegarde, Milan, 1982 Wright, William & Lynn, Elwyn The Fourth Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, Biennale of Sydney, 1982
1981	Real Super Real, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, 1981 New Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Travelling Exhibition, 1981 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981
1980	On Paper: Survey 14, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1980
1979	Still Life Still Lives, Australian Regional Galleries, 1979
1977	Illusion & Reality, Australian State Galleries, 1977
Year not known	Drawings from the face and figure, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne.