Brigid Watson
Education
2001 Masters in Painting, Venice Program, Venice, Italy and New York University, New York, NY
1994 5th Year Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Literature Minor, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1993 4 year Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Selected Solo Shows
2022 Country Life, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2021 New Work , Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2019 Garden Path Tribute, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2016 Present Moment, Beautiful Moment, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2016. Sing Me a Song, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown , MA
2016 Springtide, Hallspace, Boston, MA
2015 Difficult Loves, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 Blue, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 Materia Prima, HallSpace, Boston, MA
2012 Traveler, Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY
2012 The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Tinku gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Shows
2021 Orlowsky Freed Grantee Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2019 US State Department Art in Embassies, American Consulate , Conakry, Guinea, West Africa
2018 20th Anniversary Exhibit, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2016 Artists Choose Artists, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Excessivist Initiative, La Artcore, LA, CA
2012 The New England Collective III, Galatea Fine Art, Boston
2011 The Big Draw, Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2009 The Art of Travel, Tinku gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Chinoiseri: and other Follies, Hunter College, New York, New York
2006 Stuck: The Influence of Collage on 21st Century Artists, Molloy College, Long Island, NY
Guest Artist
2014 Polly Thayer Starr Guest Artist, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston , MA
Grants and Awards
2023 Mass Cultural Council Grant
2021 Pollock -Krasner Foundation Grant
2019 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
2004 Singapore Arts Council, Singapore, Singapore: Grant
2003 Robert Rauschenberg/Change, Inc. Captiva, FL
2003 Artists Fellowship, New York, NY: Grant
2003 Scrampelli Purchase Prize, Brescia, Italy, 2001
Publication
2020 Lambert Savigneux and Brigid Watson, “De Si Loin Un Sillage” , Editions du Petit Vehicule, France.
2016 Mack, Laura; Hernandez, Hector; and Chemeketa Art Faculty, "Art for Everyone" (textbook. My work is used as an example of “impasto”)
Helen A. Harrison, “Art Review; From the Obscure to the Unglued”, “The New York Times”, 2006,http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E2DA1030F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63
Podcasts
Phillip J. Mellen, “Artist interview with Brigid Watson”, “Ahtcast”, 2019. http://www.ahtcast.com/2018/12/artist-interview-brigid-watson_28.html
Phillip J. Mellen, “Artist interview with Brigid Watson”, “The mixed-media tapes”, 2015. http://themixedmediatapes.blogspot.com/2015/02/cassette-two-side-a.html
Selected Blogs Leon Willigendael, “The Amsterdam List – a Research Database on Global 21st Century Painting”, “Rembrandt’s Dog, 2014-Present.https://.rembrandtdog.wordpress.com/?s=Brigid+Watson
Shana Nys Dambrot, “ Excessivism: Irony, Imbalance, and a new Rococo”, “The Huffington Post”, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/?icid=hjx004 (* I was in this show though I am not specifically named.)
Christa Sagmoe, “Sarah Helser & Brigid Watson | Hidell Brooks”, “The Avid Pen”2016.https://theavidpen.com/sarah-helser-brigid-watson-hidell-brooks/
Terry Green, “Brigid Watson”, “Just Another Painter”, 2016. https://terrygreeneart.com/tag/brigid-watson/
TJasa Owen, “Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown”, “Tjasa Owen”, 2015 http://tjasaowen.blogspot.com/2015/07/foueleven-gallery-in-provincetown.html
Holly Hollingsworth Phillips,”Artist Spotlight Series: Brigid Watson”, “The English Room” , 2015. http://www.theenglishroom.biz/2015/11/23/artist-spotlight-series-brigid-watson/
Lesley Frenz, “Piles”, "The Artsy Forager”, 2015. http://artsyforager.com/2015/04/02/brigid-watson/
Lorraine Glessner, “Brigid Watson”, “Art Bite”, 2015. https://lorraineglessner.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/words-to-paint-by/brigid-watson/
Lyle, Caroline. Bostinno, October 31, 2014, http://bostinno.streetwise.co/ 2014/10/31/boston-artist-brigid-watson-interview/
Oskar Roma, “Marcas Gestuales”, “Pazquinsur Publication Cultural”, 2013.http://pazquinsur.blogspot.com/2013/02/marcas-gestuales-de-brigid-watson-desde.html
MacInnis, Stephen B. “Have you met Brigid Watson?” Painter’s Progress” , 2013. http://sbmacinnis.wordpress.com// have-you-met-brigid-watson/" June 28, 2013