JUDITH WRIGHT
Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet. Recipient of a fellowship from Arts Queensland in 1993 and awarded a professional development grant from the Queensland Government in 1998, Judith has taught at the Queensland University of Technology and the College of Art, Griffith University. She was appointed to the board of the Queensland Art Gallery from 1999-2002,and received a Master of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology in 2002. Judith participated in the India/Australia collaborative exchange project Fire and Life in Calcutta in 1996; the Fire and Life residency at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane; and Celebrate Australia in Tokyo in 1993. She collaborated with composer Lisa Lim on Sonorous Bodies for Elision contemporary music at the Third Asia Pacific Triennial, and the Hebbel Theatre Berlin. Judith was also commissioned by Elision to produce a video work for Inferno with composer John Rodgers in 2002. In 2005, Wright completed a residency at the Australia Council’s Greene St. studio in New York.

Judith’s work is represented in several university collections and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama.

Judith Wright has presented 26 individual exhibitions, and been included in over 50 group exhibitions.

Individual exhibitions include:
1991 Uncovered Language, Artspace, Sydney
1993 Silence echoes in the Hollow of the Hand, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo;
1994 Breath of Silence, Gallery Finarte, Nagoya
Breath of Silence, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
1996 Silent Measure, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1997 Skin of Memory, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
1999 Projections for Eliza, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
2002 Blind of Sight, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Blind of Sight (Now), Gardens Theatre, QUT Precinct, Brisbane
Blind of Sight, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2004 One Dances, Creative Industries Precincts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
One Dances, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
2005 Relative Conversations, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
Judith Wright: selected video works 1997 – 2004, Performance Space, Sydney
2006 In Praise of Darkness: Conversations with the Father, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

Group exhibitions include:
1989 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992 Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
1993 The Nature of Space, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1994 An Exotic Otherness, Crossing Brisbane Lines, CAST, Tasmania and touring
1995 Seven-ness collaboration with Dominico de Clario, I M A, Brisbane
1996 re collection - The Griffith University Art Collection 25 years, Brisbane City Gallery
Australia: Familiar and Strange, Seoul Arts Centre, Korea
Fire and Life with Jayashree Chakravarty, Gallery 88, Calcutta;
1997 Fire and Life with Jayashree Chakravarty, I.M.A, Brisbane and touring
A Gift for India, SAHMAT, New Delhi and touring
Space and Gravity, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Temple of Earth Memories, between Art & Nature, Australian
Perspecta
, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1998 Another Landscape: Life/ History/ Language with Kaoru Hirabayashi and
Nalini Malani; Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama; Gallery
Lunami, Tokyo; Galleria Finarte, Nagoya.
1999 Agency: Living Here Now, Australian Perspecta, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Sonorous Bodies, Elision contemporary music with Liza Lim, Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane City Hall
Another Landscape: Life/History/Language, Max Mueller Bhavan, German Cultural Centre, Bombay
2000 Tachikawa International Art Festival 2000, Tokyo
Another Landscape, I.M.A Brisbane, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Lightness of Being, with Pinaree Sanpitak, Queensland Art Gallery
2001 Paper works: Australian Artists exploring drawing and the printed image, Queensland Art Gallery
Phenomena New Painting in Australia:1, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Sonorous Bodies, Elision contemporary music with Liza Lim, Hebbel Theatre Berlin
2002 Inferno, Elision contemporary music with John Rodgers, Brisbane Powerhouse
Meridian; Currents in Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2004 The Look of Faith, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Slow Rushes: Takes on the Documentary Sensibility in Moving Images from around Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2005 Slow Rushes: Takes on the documentary Sensibility in Moving Images from around Asia and the Pacific,
Artspace, Auckland
Your Sky, Gigantic Art Space[GAS] New York
The Harries National Digital Art Award, QUT creative industries precinct, Brisbane, and Today Art Museum Beijing Film Academy, Beijing
2006 Where Angles Tread, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2006-2008 Queensland Live, Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition

Performance
1997 Body as Site, erasure of work of Nalini Malini with Vanessa Mafe,
Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
1998 Trace, with Kaoru Hirabayashi, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama
   
   

Represented by GRANTPIRRIE gallery Sydney, Jan Manton Art Brisbane.