ABOUT

Amy Joy Watson (she/her) was born in Adelaide, South Australia and graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2008 with a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours.  Amy has been successful in winning several grants and scholarships through CARCLEW, Arts SA and the Australia Council for the Arts. She was awarded an International Studio and Curatorial Program residency in New York in 2012, the 2012 Critics Circle Prize, the 2013 Qantas Australian Contemporary Art Award and an Australia Council Tokyo Studio Residency in 2014. Amy has presented exhibitions throughout Australia at galleries including Hugo Michell Gallery, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, West Space, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney Contemporary, Penrith Art Gallery, Rockhampton Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Amy has been commissioned to create several major public artworks throughout Australia and has work in private and public collections around the world. She resides in Adelaide, South Australia and is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.

I acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the lands on which I live and work, the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains.