Judith Wright lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. She came to her work as an installation artist with a background in dance having performed with the Australian Ballet.

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. In 2005, Wright completed a residency at the Australia Council’s Greene St. studio in New York.

Wright’s major installation ‘A Wake’ was exhibited in GOMA’s exhibition ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ in 2012, and  ‘A Journey’ in the 18th Biennale of Sydney: All Our Relations, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, 2012, and ‘In the Garden of Good and Evil’ at QAG in 2018.

Most recently, Wright’s work was included in the ‘Women’s Work is Never Done’ exhibition at the Richard Saltoun Gallery in London, curated by Catherine de Zegher. In 2026, Wright’s artist book ‘One Dances’ and ‘Carnivale: Second Stage’ was acquired by Frac Grand Large Hauts-de-France.