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. In 2009 she was awarded a Fellowship from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Most recently, works by Judith Wright will be included in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now Part Two. Know My Name showcases art made by women. Drawn from the National Gallery of Australia's collection and loans from across Australia, it is one of the most comprehensive presentations of art by women assembled in this country to date. The exhibition will be on display until 26 January 2022. ⁠

Wright’s major installation ‘A Wake’ was also 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.

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, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, GOMA Brisbane, and the Auckland Art Gallery.

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