Biography
Jenny Watson was born in Melbourne in 1951. She lives and works in Brisbane, Australia and Europe.
Solo Exhibitions
2020
- Buttoned up, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2019
- Jenny Watson: A Horses Tale, Vigo Gallery, London
2018
- Peripheral Vision, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sidney
2017
- The Fabric of Fantasy, Heide Musuem of Modern Art, Melbourne
- The Fabric of Fantasy, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
- Buffaloes, Gangurinn/ The Corridor, Reykjavik
2016
- Just a Girl, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Chronicles, QCA Gallery, Brisbane
2015
- Fabrications, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2014
- Birds, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Garden of Eden and Child's Play, Galerie Transit, Melechen
- I woke up in France, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
2012
- Other Lives, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Shibuya
- Layerings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Jenny Watson: Here There and Everywhere, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
2011
- Five paintings about a mobile phone, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
- Striped Paintings and Undercover, Gimpel Fils, London
2010
- The Daisy Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- CIAP, Hasselt
2009
- American Idyll, Galerie Transit, Melechen
- Material Evidence: Jenny Watson, Works on Fabric 1981 - 2005, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Sonntag and Galerie Transit, Melechen
- Opq- Project Show, The Factory, Kunsthalle Krems
- Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2008
- 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
- Vintage Paintings & New Watercolours, Galerie Transit, Melechen
- Works made in Sri Lanka, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Exhibition at Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
2005
- Material Evidence: Jenny Watson, Works on Fabric 1981 - 2005, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
- Child's Play, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
- Muka Gallery, Auckland
2004
- Woman and cat in an upper west side apartment, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
- Angels, Mrs Peel, Maybelline and a Long Night of the Soul, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Child's Play II, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
2003
- Child's Play, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama and Hatano Fine Arts, Osaka
- Made in Perth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Doll House, International Art Space Kellerberrin, Kellerrebin, Western
2002
- Girls, Gimpel Fils, London
- Paul Greenaway, Adelaide
2001
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- Bologna Art Fair, Giordano Raffaelli, Trento
- Shrinksville, Galerie Transit, Mechelen
2000
- Shelf life, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Wild East, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
1999
- Japan '99, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1998
- The Play Room & Buffaloes, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- University of Hanoi and College of Fine Arts
- Mothership, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.Dina Carola, Naples
- The Seven Ages of a Playboy Bunny, Gimpel Fils, London
1997
- The Bear Facts, Galerie Transit, Leuven
- Mothership, Giordano Raffaeli, Trento
1996
- Marburger University Museum
- Ulmer Museum, Ulm
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1995
- Made in Europe, Ulmer Museum
- Rosenheim farm, Rosenheim Kunstverein, Rosenheim
- Gramency Park Paintings, Manus Presse, Stuttgart
- Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
- History / Hysterie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Minimalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
- Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
- Manus Presse, Stuttgart
- Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst, Aachen
1994
- Prints, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Galerie Transit, Leuven
- Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
1993
- Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
- Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Paintings with Veils and False Tails, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
- Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya
- Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1992
- Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya
- Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, Como
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1991
- Black Wholes, City Gallery, Melbourne
- Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1989
- Fables, Pastoral and Present, City Gallery, Melbourne
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane
1988
- City Gallery, Melbourne
1987
- The Mad Room, City Gallery, Melbourne
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Roz Mac Allan Gallery, Brisbane
1986
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1985
- University Gallery, University of Melbourne
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1984
- Art Projects, Melbourne
1983
- Art Projects, Melbourne
- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1982
- Art Projects, Melbourne
1981
- Q Space Annex, Brisbane Art Projects, Melbourne
1980
- Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
- Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Q Space Annex, Brisbane
- Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
- David Reid Gallery, Sydney
1978
- Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1977
- Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1975
- Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
- Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
- Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1974
- Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1973
- Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2022
- Bodies of Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
2021
- Works from Stalke collection + Guest, Stalke Galleri, Denmark
2020
- Faculty Club Leuven invites galerie Transit, Faculty Club Leuven
2019
- Fringe - William Copley, Saskia Pintelon & Jenny Watson, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
2018
- Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2016
- Flashback & Guests, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Såby
- Painting, More Painting- Chapter 2, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
- Love…More Than a Four Letter Word, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2015
- Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney
- Radical Romanticism, CRANE International Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia
- GROUP SHOW: Tony Clark, Dale Frank, Kathy Temin & Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Howard Arkley (and friends…), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2014
- Solitaire,Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville
- Spin Doctor, curated by Johan Creten, Brussels Art Fair, Brussels
- Basil Sellers Art Prize 4, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
- Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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
- New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
- Heat in the Eyes: New Acquisitions 2010-2013, Ian Potter Museum of Art - University of Melbourne, Melbourne
- Playtime, Institute of Modern Art, 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
- 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
- Cut `N' Paste, Peloton Galleries, Sydney
- 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
- 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
- Drawing Centre, curated by Ross Woodrow, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
- Blur, curated by Steven Alderton, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Brisbane, Queensland
- The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2005, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
- If the walls could talk: Tony Clark, Callum Morton, David Noonan, Kathy Temin and Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Critical Mass, Transit Gallery, Mechelen
- Gallery artists in new space, Giordano Raffaelli, Trento
2004
- La Flora, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
- George Keyt Foundation International Artists' Camp 2004, Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt Centre, Colombo
- Ruby Ranch, curated Dr. Patricia Frederick, Arizona, New Mexico
- Blur, curated by Steven Alderton, Redland Art Gallery, Redland Shire Council, Cleveland, Queensland
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), Grafton Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
- Portrait show, University of Queensland, Brisbane; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
- Heavenly Creatures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
- Bendigo Art Prize, Bendigo, Victoria
- Children (Four artists), Transit Gallery, Mechelen
2003
- Group Show, MUKA, Auckland
- Group Show, Annina Nosei, New York
- Summer Show, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
- StArt: arte e sport a Cavalese, Centro Arte Contemporanea di Cavalese, Trento
- Speilhoven Project, Belgium
- MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- MCA Unpacked (touring exhibition), Queensland University Art Gallery, Brisbane
- 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
- 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 (touring exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000
- Summer Invitational, Annina Nosei, New York
- Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London
1999
- Annina Nosei at Bologna Art Fair, Bologna
- Group Exhibition, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen
1998
- VOXXX, Chemnitz
- Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997
- Kelowna Museum, British Columbia, Kelowna
- Gallery Artists, Annina Nosei, New York
- Hotel on Fire: Brad Buckley, Genevieve Cadieux, Via Lewandowsky, Ken Lum, Jenny Watson, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna
1996
- Telstra Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
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 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, Düsseldorf
- Confess and Conceal, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Australian Centre,Manila, Philippines; Australian Embassy, Jakarta, IndonesiaYoshida Gallery
- Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya
- 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 (1995)
1993
- Yoshida Gallery, Nagoya
- 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
- Wit's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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
- 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 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, Fremantle
- 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, Frankfurt, Wurttembergische Kunsterverein , Stuttgard (1989)
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
- 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 Zaichnung, Stadt Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
- 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
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
- 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
- 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, 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
- 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 Realism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- The Beacon, N Space, Sydney
1980
- Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- 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 AustraliaWorks 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
1974
- The Supernatural Natural Image, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, McLelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin, Ballarat Regional Gallery, Ballarat Central
Bibliography
2015
- Dr Benedikt Stegmayer: Autobiography as Fictive Construct: Confession, Jenny Holzer, Jenny Watson, Tracey Emin, Berlin
2013
- Jenny Watson: Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, Gallery Magazine, National Gallery of Victoria, May/June
- Ashley Crawford: Into the groove: pop goes the ‘80s, The Australian Financial Review, April
2012
- Penny Webb: Here, There and Everywhere, Art Guide Australia, January/February
- Classic Black, Heat Magazine, Issue 24
2009
- Megan Backhouse: Material Success from Rosy Palette, The Age, February
2007
- Rebecca Geldard: Innocence and Experience, Time Out, London, May
2005
- Kate Bezar: Jenny Watson, Dumbo Feather, pass it on, Sydney
- Alison Kubler: Jenny Watson, State of the Arts: Design Issue, Sidney, July – September
- Louise Martin-Chew: Fabulous fabric of frivolity, The Australian, August
- Simon P. Wright: Material Evidence: Jenny Watson on Fabric 1981-2005, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2004
- Anne Ryan: Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003
- Alan Cruickshank: Blaze: Visual Art + Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside
- Hiroko Nishumura: Memories guide artist’s deft hand, Herald Tribune
- Anna King Murdoch: A painter of the suburbs, The Age, Review, March
2002
- Jason Smith, Charles Green: Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
2000
- Ashley Hay: The Perfect Week, The Bulletin, September
1997
- Gary Pearson: Haerdter, Kelowna and Micheal Hotel on Fir, Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia
- Hanna Stegmayer: Mothership, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento
1996
- Ruth Händler: Jenny Watson: Ulmer Museum, ART, das Kunstmagazin, No. 3, March
- Thomas Sarah: Raking Through Compost, BROADsheet, Volume 25, No. 2, Winter
- Brigitte Reinhardt; Hanna Stegmayer: Manus Presse, Universitatsmuseum
1995
- Ben Curnow: Double Vision, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
- Ben Curnow: Jenny Watson: Prints, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
- Maurizio Nanucci: Almanacco 2000, Florence
- Reiter Raabe: Natural Dialogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1994
- Holland Cotter: The Discreet Charm of Ingeniousness The New York Times, September
- Carmel Dwyer: Creator of her own world, Sydney Morning Herald, June
- Ariella Giulivi: Jenny Watson, exhibition review, Tema Celeste Arte Contemporanea, No. 44, Milan, Summer
- Karin Heyl: Die Kunst in der Windmühlstraße, Dresdner Bank
- Robert Leonard, Priscilla Pitts: Power Works from the M.C.A. Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
- Evelyn Juers: Jenny Watson, Art and Australia, August
- Dr Martin Stather: Jenny Watson - Scrabble and Paintings on Hessian, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
- Donald Williams, Colin Simpson: Art Now: Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw Hill, Sydney
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
- Judy Annear: Jenny Watson: Paintings with Veils and False Tails, 45th Biennale of Venice, A.E.T.A., Melbourne
- 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
- Roberta Lietta: Jenny Watson: Watercolour, interview, Galleria Roberta Lietta Arte Contemporanea di Como, Como
- Felicity Fenner: Jenny Watson, Art + Text, 46
1992
- Anne Leithäuser: Jenny Watson, Artist Kunstmagazine, No. 10/11, February
- Valerie Filipovna: Jenny Watson, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
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
- Marina Warner: Bush Natural, Parkett, Zurich, March
- Carlo McCormick: Jenny Watson, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- Achille Bonita Oliva: Artea Prearo, Milan
- Jennifer Phipps: 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
- John Nixon; John Young: Kerb Your Dog, Number 7, Sydney
1988
- John Nixon; John Young: Kerb Your Dog, Number 3, Sydney
1987
- Ted Gott: Backlash, National Gallery of Victoria
1986
- Jenny Watson: Jenny Watson, Alter Egos (Sketches for Paintings) 1982 – 1985, EAF, Adelaide
- Victoria Lynn; Paul Taylor: Sixth Triennale- India, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, Sydney
1985
- William Wright: 3rd International Triennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg
- Sue Cramer: Jenny Watson, Harpers Bazaar, April
- Ashley Crawford: The Artist and the Aristocrat - Jenny Watson: A Discovery of Dignity, Follow Me, Aug/Sept, No. 18
- Leon Paroissien: Through the Looking Glass in: Jenny Watson, Paintings & Drawings 1972-1985’, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne
- Leon Paroissien, Frances Lindsay: Jenny Watson Paintings and Drawings 1972-1985, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: Close Remarks, Artspace, Sydney
1984
- Sue Cramer: Vox Pop, (Review), Art + Text, No. 12/13
- Lorena Mazzocco: Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, The Fifth Biennale of Sydney Ltd., Sydney
- Achille Bonita Oliva: 5th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Achille Bonita Oliva: Dreams and Nightmares, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: Anything Goes, Australian Art in the 70’s, Melbournee
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: Symbols, Emblems, Signatures, Australian Drawings, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
1983
- Paul Taylor: Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Paul Taylor: Jenny Watson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Paul Taylor: Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Paul Taylor: A Melbourne Mood; Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery Canberra
- Maggie Gilchrist: What is this called Pop, Australian Vogue, January
- Maggie Gilchrist: Young Blood, Notes on Art Practice, Art Projects
- Maggie Gilchrist: 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
- Bernice Murphy: Recent Painting in Australia, Flash Art, Milan, January
- 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
- Nancy Underhill: Australia - The French Discovery of 1983, Art + Text, 12/13
- Robert Lindsay: Vox Pop; Into the 80’s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Achille Bonita Oliva: Poignant Images, Dream Palette, 1981, Jenny Watson, Art Projects
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: From Another Continent: Australia The Dream and the Real, ARC II, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70’s + 80’s, Art Gallery of South Australia
1982
- William Wright, Elwyn Lynn: The Fourth Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief*, Biennale of Sydney
- Paul Taylor: Popism, National Gallery of Victoria
- Paul Taylor: The Seventies, The National Bank Collection, National Gallery of Victoria
- 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
- James Mollison: Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Phillip Morris Arts Grant, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Achille Bonita Oliva: The International Trans-Avantegarde, Milan
1981
- Paul Taylor, Australian New Wave & the Second Degree, Art + Text, No. 1
- Paul Taylor, Jenny Watson’s Modernism, Art International, January/February
- Janine Burke: Homes Beautiful, Arts Melbourne, No. 6
- Ruth Handler: Jenny Watson: Im Gespräch mit einer fernen Vergangenheit
- Achille Bonita Oliva: Drawings from the face and figure, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne
- Leon Paroissien, Meaghan Morris: Jenny Watson, Alice & the Aristocrat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- Renate Puvogel: Jenny Watson, Ulmer Museum, Galerie Manus Presse, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Marburg