Tommy Watson History and Collections

History

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Retrospective Exhibition and Book Launch "Tommy Watson", Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2021 Yannima Pikarli, Tommy Watson, Pitjantjatjara Master, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2018 Desert Legend, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2015 Tommy Watson Showcase, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson, Piermarq, Sydney
2013 Returning Home: New Works, Piermarq, Sydney
2013 Going Back to Country, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Tommy Watson, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Kutu Wara | The Last One, Agathon Galleries, Sydney
2007 Tommy Watson, Agathon Galleries, Sydney
2006 Tommy Watson, Agathon Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Tommy Watson, Agathon Galleries, Sydney


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Vividly Bold, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Pages from the Atlas | This Place My Country, Cooee Art, Redfern
2022 Colour Pop, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Palya - a tribute to Steve Ariston, Art Mob, Hobart
2022 Mother, Country, Tjukurrpa, Mitchell Fine Art, Brisbane
2021 Across the Top 2021, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Western Desert Sublime: The Craig Edwards Gift to the Australian National University, Canberra
2021 From the Desert to the Sea, Gallery One, Southport, QLD
2021 Voyage across Aboriginal Australia | Founders' Favourites, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, La Grange, Motiers, Switzerland
2021 Icon, Umber Aboriginal Art, Sydney
2021 Small Works Salon, Nanda / Hobbs, Sydney
2021 Icon, Yannima Tommy Watson and Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Nanda / Hobbs, Sydney
2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2020 Pointillism Perfection, Art Mob, Hobart
2020 Director's Choice 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Top Ten - Our Most Popular Artists 2019, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Highlights from the ANU Art Collection. ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2020 From the Desert to the Sea, Gallery One, Southport, QLD
2020 Selected Indigenous Artists | Stories of Country, Linton and Kay Fine Art Galleries, Perth
2020 Spring, Nanda / Hobbs, Sydney
2019 Defining Tradition | the colourists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Spring Collection: Exhibition to celebrate our beautiful Spring Collection, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2019 Large Showroom, Large Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Landscape Colours, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2019 Tjukurrpa | Stories from the Western Desert, Piermarq Gallery, Sydney
2019 Top 10 of 2019, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Beyond the Veil, Adam Knight, Olsen Gruin, New York
2018 EXPO Chicago, Smith Davidson Gallery, Chicago
2018 Shining Forth | Colour Power, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2018 Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
2018 Summer Group Show, Piermarq Gallery, Sydney
2018 Beyond the Veil, Olsen Gruin, New York
2018 D'lan Davidson - New Works
2018 Into Abstraction: Exploring the Diversity of Abstraction and its Affiliations from the 1960's until the Present, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2018 Welcome to Thompson Street, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Western Desert Sublime: The Craig Edwards Gift to The Australian National University, Canberra
2017 Way out West, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2017 Sharing Country, curated by Adam Knight, Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York
2017 A SWEEP continues, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 The Collectors View, Piermarq, Sydney
2017 Important Australian Indigenous Art, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
2017 A SWEEP: Old & New Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 From the Vault, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2016 O Tempo Dos Sonhos, Arte Aborigene Contemporanea da Australia, Caixa Cultural, Sao Paolo
2016 From West of Here, Piermarq, Sydney
2016 Art Palm Beach, Piermarq, West Palm Beach, Florida
2016 Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums
2016 Outback to Abstract Exhibition, Chifley Foyer, Soho Galleries, Sydney
2016 Selected Indigenous Paintings, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
2016 The Anointed Few, Piermarq, Sydney
2015 Transcendence, Nanda Hobbs, Sydney
2015 Signs and Traces. Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, Poland
2015 Art from the APY Lands, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2015 Cynthia Burke: Warakurna Artists and Tommy Watson Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2013 New Iconic, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi, Querini Stampalia Foundation, Santa Maria Formosa Castello 5252, Venice
2014 From the Vaults, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2014 Winter Warmers, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2014 The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, The Netherlands
2010 Christmas Show, Aranda Art, Melbourne
2010 Irrunytju Artists, Agathon Galleries, Sydney
2010 Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2010 Irrunytju Artists: Nganampa Nguru - Our Country, Linton and Kay Fine Art Gallery, Perth
2010 Bikes in the Desert, Art Equity, Sydney
2009 Emerging Elders - honouring senior Indigenous artists, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2009 Nganampa Ngura - Our Land: Irrunytju Artists from the Western Desert, Linton and Kay Fine Art, Perth
2009 New Works, South Western Desert Art of Australia, Agathon Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne
2009 Nganampa Tjukurpa, South Western Desert Art of Australia, Agathon Galleries, Sydney,
2009 Agathon Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne
2008 Agathon Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne
2008 Lismore Gallery, Lismore
2007 One Sun, One Moon, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2007 Senior Irrunytju Artists, Agathon Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Irrunytju Fundraiser Exhibition, Agathon Galleries, Sydney
2007 Shanghai Art Fair, Aranda Art
2006 Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2006 Musee du Quai Branly (permanent exhibition), Paris
2005 Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns
2005 Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong
2005 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Ngayuku Ngura (My Country), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Senior Irrunytju Men, Aboriginal and Pacific Gallery, Sydney
2005 Mixed Show, Aranda Art, Melbourne
2004 Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 NATSIAA - Celebrating 20 Years, National Archives of Australia, Canberra
2004 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2002 Wati Tjilpiku Tjukurpa | Senior Men's Stories, Aboriginal and Pacific Gallery, Sydney
2002 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

Awards and Recognition

2024 Launch of book "Tommy Watson" written by Ken McGregor, published by Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2014 The Watson, Art Hotel, Adelaide - hotel themed on Tommy Watson art
2008 25th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2006 Installation, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
2005 Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
2003 Kate Challis RAKA Award: Places that name us, The Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne - Finalist
2003 20th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist and Highly Commended
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist
2002 19th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2002 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist

Collections

  • Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Araluen Collection, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
  • Patrick Corrigan Collection, Sydney
  • Auscorp, Sydney
  • Harold Mitchell Collection, Melbourne
  • Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
  • Richard Branson Collection, UK
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
  • Adam Knight Collection, Melbourne
  • Aranda Art Collection, Melbourne
  • Australian National University, Canberra
  • Jacquie McPhee Collection, Perth
  • Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice
  • Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
  • Bega Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Bond University, Gold Coast
  • Deague Family Collection, Melbourne
  • Elizabeth and Colin Laverty Collection, Sydney
  • Fitzgerald Collection, Sydney
  • Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
  • University of Canberra Collection, Canberra
  • Walker Corporation Collection, Melbourne
  • Walnut Enterprises Collection, Melbourne
  • Gerry Ryan Collection, Melbourne
  • Henderson Family Collection, Sydney