Instagram at hannewatson
Creative writing blog is: www.echolaliaredacted.com
Reviews and articles: www.annewatsonwrites.blogspot.com
A mashup up videos and articles: www.annewatsoncompiled.blogspot.com
Creative writing blog is: www.echolaliaredacted.com
Reviews and articles: www.annewatsonwrites.blogspot.com
A mashup up videos and articles: www.annewatsoncompiled.blogspot.com
1985-Present New York, NY and Salt Lake City, UT
Exhibited in over 30 shows throughout North America and Europe. Created eight pieces of public works (NYC and Salt Lake City). Prepared special projects for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, and with youth from the Red Hook Projects in Brooklyn. Created drawings for a book by Salman Rushdie held in the permanent collection of the University of Utah Marriott Library. Work privately held throughout North America and Europe. List of shows and of local and national press coverage available upon request.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"Video retrospective" Oct.-Dec. 2009 Sidewalk Cinema, various venues downtown Salt lake Ctiy, UT
“Shroud” April- May 2007, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
“Places” January - March 2007, Westminster College, SLC, UT
“Pippi Explores Place” October/November 2005, Art Access/ VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
“Language” October-November 2002, Artspace Forum Gallery, SLC, UT
"Pre-language" September 2002, University of Utah Honors Program House, SLC, UT
“Wax works” 2001, Offices of Drs. Amy Glassman and Phillipa Gordon, Brooklyn, NY
“Figures in Fantasy” October 1999, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY
“Oils and Ink” September 1985, Salt Lake City Art Gallery, SLC, UT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Third Utah Juried Art Show” Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT May-June 2007.
Awarded 2nd Place by Tanja Gunert.
“300 Plates” May-June 2007, Art Access/VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
“Independent Voices” May 2006
Presented by Brolly Arts, Westminster College, SLC, UT
“Shroud”, a multi-screen video installation
“Moon Tornado Salon: Art from the Other Side” An exhibit for the Sundance Film
Festival January 2006, Rose Wagner Theatre Black Box, SLC UT
“Group Show” July- August 2005, Phillips Gallery (representing work), SLC, UT
“300 Plates” May-June 2005, Art Access/ VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
"I'll Never be So Far Away" June-September 2004, Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT
"Art to Feed the Homeless" December 2002, Union Pacific Building, SLC, UT
Works benefitted Catholic Charities to help the homeless.
“MA Thesis Exhibition” 2001 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY, NY
Full room installation in Gallery One, including photography, video, sculpture.
“New York Artists” 2001 Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Brooklyn, NY
“Clara E Gli Americani III” 2000-2001 Brescia, Italy and traveled throughout Italy
“NYU Venice 2000” 2000 Venice, Italy
“BWAC Pier Show” 2000 Pier One, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
“Off Spring” 2000 Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Brooklyn, NY
“Casa Italiana Group Show” 2000 NY, NY
“Clara E Gli Americani II” 1999- 2000 Brescia, Italy and traveled throughout Italy
“NYU Venice 1998” 1998 Venice, Italy
“Greenwich Village Art Show” 1998 New York, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Curated "Utah X/1" of best video artists in Utah for Sidewalk Cinema. Included an evening of discussion at the Salt Lake Art Center and a piece produced, shot and edited by Watson with two curators to accompany the selected videos.
"Windows" November 2003- January 2004 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC, UT
Installed multi-media works in the ground floor windows of the museum.
"Shape" 2003 Neighborhood House, SLC, UT
Created seven free standing outdoor installation pieces with at-risk children attending an after-school program.
Sundance Film Festival 2003, Music Café in Club Plan B, Park City, UT
Constructed two full-room installations for the music café venue -- the sponsors and musicians’ room and the VIP room.
“Door” 2001 Waterfront Park, Brooklyn, NY
One of five artists selected to create an installation for the Brooklyn Redevelopment Organization’s “Welcome Back to Brooklyn” festival.
“Urban Window” 2000 Pier One, Brooklyn, NY
Waterfront installation at the Red Hook Pier, sponsored by South Brooklyn Local Development Corp. with the participation of Red Hook Rise.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
Three oil paintings, Humanities Building, University of Utah.
“Chaos” Human Genetics Building, University of Utah, SLC, UT
Woodcut drawings for “Firebird” by Salmon Rushdie, Marriott Library, UT
“Enter Here” Midvale Boys and Girls Club, SLC, UT
“Tapestry Pieces” Pier One Business Building, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
“Wax works” Doctors Offices, Brooklyn, NY
“Eddie’s Baby” New School for Social Research, NYC
“Firebird” drawings for a book by Salmon Rushdie, Marriott Library, SLC, UT
“Abstract” painting for the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, SLC, UT
Various private collections in NY, Miami, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Utah, Italy, etc.
PRESS
Shawn Rossiter, “Places” 15 Bytes online
Staker, Brian. “Pippi in Wonderland” City Weekly, SLC, November 2005
Cone, Kimberly, “Interview about Pippi Explores Place” Classical 89 radio, UT, broadcast Nov. 18, 22, etc. 2005
Staker, Brian. Review of” I’ll Never Be So Far Away” Art Papers. Atlanta, GA Oct/Nov 2004 Issue, pg. 52
Variety Magazine, Sundance installation featured behind Hollywood executives Feb. 2002,
Review of "Language" exhibition CBS News (UT), Saturday, December 10, 2002
Review of "Language" exhibition ABC News (UT), Saturday, November 2, 2002
Karras , Christy, “Anne Watson In the Abstract" Salt Lake Tribune October 27, 2002
Fabrizio, Doug, 20-minute interview about “Language” exhibition Radio West, KUER pubic radio, October 14, 2002
Hays, Elizabeth, “Let there be lights and more” Daily News. New York City, Sunday, December 10, 2000. About Red Hook installation project.
MEMBERSHIP, AWARDS, OTHER
Board Member, Salt Lake Art Center, Nov. 2006-2008
Search committee member, Salt Lake Art Center, director’s position. Oct. 2007-Feb. 2008
Board Member, Executive Committee, Utah Arts Council, appointed by Governor Huntsman, June 2005 – October 2007
Board Member, VSA Art Access, February 2006- January 2007
Juror, Public Art for Convention Center, Salt Lake County Art Committee, 3-9/05
Board Member, Salt Lake City Film Center, August 2001-August 2006
Committee Member, Search Committee for Dean of College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Nov. 2004-July 2005
Juror, Art and Technology Symposium presenters, University of Utah, 2004
Art Access grant, teaching project, Midvale Boys and Girls Club, summer/fall 2004
Art Access grant, teaching project, Neighborhood House, summer 2003
Committee member, “Brooklyn Heights Montessori School Art Show” 2001
BWAC, 2000, 2001
Brooklyn CAPS, 1998, 1999
Gold Apple Award for Directing, “Buffalo Soldiers” (hour length documentary) 1994
Emmy Award Judge in the Documentary Director’s category, 1993-1999
Nominated for an Emmy Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, 1990
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, Honors College, Creative Visual Communications, Spring, 2009.
Adjunct Professor, Weber State University, Advanced Drawing, Spring 2007, Beginning Drawing Fall 2007
Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Foundation, 2001-present
Manage all operations and communications for the foundation and board members (part-time), including organizing and attending board meetings and interfacing with all the non-profit organizations requesting funds (approximately 200 annually). Foundation awards on average $1.7 million a year.
Independent film producer/director and writer. NYC 1989-2001
Produced/directed and wrote seven films and produced eleven others for national broadcast (The Discovery Channel, Lifetime, MSNBC and PBS) and one film for broadcast nationally and internationally (The Discovery Channel). Also produced over 40 interview shows broadcast nationally (PBS) as well as reversioning films (Oxygen Media and the BBC) and producing, directing and writing over 30 videos for foundations and corporations and the CBC.
EDUCATION
York University, Environmental Studies, Toronto, ON
PhD. Expected 2028.
Simon Fraser University, Graduate Liberal Studies, Vancouver, BC
Masters. 2024.
New York University, School of Education, New York.
Master of Art. 2001.
Two summers studying in Venice, Italy
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, NY
Post graduate study. 1991.
American University, Washington, D.C.
Washington Journalism Semester Program. 1983.
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Studio Art. 1984.
Independent study in creative writing senior year with James Baldwin
You can find me other places, too.
Instagram at hannewatson
Creative writing blog is: www.echolaliaredacted.com
Reviews and articles: www.annewatsonwrites.blogspot.com
A mashup up videos and articles: www.annewatsoncompiled.blogspot.com
Exhibited in over 30 shows throughout North America and Europe. Created eight pieces of public works (NYC and Salt Lake City). Prepared special projects for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Sundance Film Festival, and with youth from the Red Hook Projects in Brooklyn. Created drawings for a book by Salman Rushdie held in the permanent collection of the University of Utah Marriott Library. Work privately held throughout North America and Europe. List of shows and of local and national press coverage available upon request.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"Video retrospective" Oct.-Dec. 2009 Sidewalk Cinema, various venues downtown Salt lake Ctiy, UT
“Shroud” April- May 2007, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
“Places” January - March 2007, Westminster College, SLC, UT
“Pippi Explores Place” October/November 2005, Art Access/ VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
“Language” October-November 2002, Artspace Forum Gallery, SLC, UT
"Pre-language" September 2002, University of Utah Honors Program House, SLC, UT
“Wax works” 2001, Offices of Drs. Amy Glassman and Phillipa Gordon, Brooklyn, NY
“Figures in Fantasy” October 1999, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY
“Oils and Ink” September 1985, Salt Lake City Art Gallery, SLC, UT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Third Utah Juried Art Show” Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT May-June 2007.
Awarded 2nd Place by Tanja Gunert.
“300 Plates” May-June 2007, Art Access/VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
“Independent Voices” May 2006
Presented by Brolly Arts, Westminster College, SLC, UT
“Shroud”, a multi-screen video installation
“Moon Tornado Salon: Art from the Other Side” An exhibit for the Sundance Film
Festival January 2006, Rose Wagner Theatre Black Box, SLC UT
“Group Show” July- August 2005, Phillips Gallery (representing work), SLC, UT
“300 Plates” May-June 2005, Art Access/ VSA Gallery, SLC, UT
"I'll Never be So Far Away" June-September 2004, Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT
"Art to Feed the Homeless" December 2002, Union Pacific Building, SLC, UT
Works benefitted Catholic Charities to help the homeless.
“MA Thesis Exhibition” 2001 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY, NY
Full room installation in Gallery One, including photography, video, sculpture.
“New York Artists” 2001 Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Brooklyn, NY
“Clara E Gli Americani III” 2000-2001 Brescia, Italy and traveled throughout Italy
“NYU Venice 2000” 2000 Venice, Italy
“BWAC Pier Show” 2000 Pier One, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
“Off Spring” 2000 Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Brooklyn, NY
“Casa Italiana Group Show” 2000 NY, NY
“Clara E Gli Americani II” 1999- 2000 Brescia, Italy and traveled throughout Italy
“NYU Venice 1998” 1998 Venice, Italy
“Greenwich Village Art Show” 1998 New York, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Curated "Utah X/1" of best video artists in Utah for Sidewalk Cinema. Included an evening of discussion at the Salt Lake Art Center and a piece produced, shot and edited by Watson with two curators to accompany the selected videos.
"Windows" November 2003- January 2004 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC, UT
Installed multi-media works in the ground floor windows of the museum.
"Shape" 2003 Neighborhood House, SLC, UT
Created seven free standing outdoor installation pieces with at-risk children attending an after-school program.
Sundance Film Festival 2003, Music Café in Club Plan B, Park City, UT
Constructed two full-room installations for the music café venue -- the sponsors and musicians’ room and the VIP room.
“Door” 2001 Waterfront Park, Brooklyn, NY
One of five artists selected to create an installation for the Brooklyn Redevelopment Organization’s “Welcome Back to Brooklyn” festival.
“Urban Window” 2000 Pier One, Brooklyn, NY
Waterfront installation at the Red Hook Pier, sponsored by South Brooklyn Local Development Corp. with the participation of Red Hook Rise.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
Three oil paintings, Humanities Building, University of Utah.
“Chaos” Human Genetics Building, University of Utah, SLC, UT
Woodcut drawings for “Firebird” by Salmon Rushdie, Marriott Library, UT
“Enter Here” Midvale Boys and Girls Club, SLC, UT
“Tapestry Pieces” Pier One Business Building, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
“Wax works” Doctors Offices, Brooklyn, NY
“Eddie’s Baby” New School for Social Research, NYC
“Firebird” drawings for a book by Salmon Rushdie, Marriott Library, SLC, UT
“Abstract” painting for the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, SLC, UT
Various private collections in NY, Miami, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Utah, Italy, etc.
PRESS
Shawn Rossiter, “Places” 15 Bytes online
Staker, Brian. “Pippi in Wonderland” City Weekly, SLC, November 2005
Cone, Kimberly, “Interview about Pippi Explores Place” Classical 89 radio, UT, broadcast Nov. 18, 22, etc. 2005
Staker, Brian. Review of” I’ll Never Be So Far Away” Art Papers. Atlanta, GA Oct/Nov 2004 Issue, pg. 52
Variety Magazine, Sundance installation featured behind Hollywood executives Feb. 2002,
Review of "Language" exhibition CBS News (UT), Saturday, December 10, 2002
Review of "Language" exhibition ABC News (UT), Saturday, November 2, 2002
Karras , Christy, “Anne Watson In the Abstract" Salt Lake Tribune October 27, 2002
Fabrizio, Doug, 20-minute interview about “Language” exhibition Radio West, KUER pubic radio, October 14, 2002
Hays, Elizabeth, “Let there be lights and more” Daily News. New York City, Sunday, December 10, 2000. About Red Hook installation project.
MEMBERSHIP, AWARDS, OTHER
Board Member, Salt Lake Art Center, Nov. 2006-2008
Search committee member, Salt Lake Art Center, director’s position. Oct. 2007-Feb. 2008
Board Member, Executive Committee, Utah Arts Council, appointed by Governor Huntsman, June 2005 – October 2007
Board Member, VSA Art Access, February 2006- January 2007
Juror, Public Art for Convention Center, Salt Lake County Art Committee, 3-9/05
Board Member, Salt Lake City Film Center, August 2001-August 2006
Committee Member, Search Committee for Dean of College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Nov. 2004-July 2005
Juror, Art and Technology Symposium presenters, University of Utah, 2004
Art Access grant, teaching project, Midvale Boys and Girls Club, summer/fall 2004
Art Access grant, teaching project, Neighborhood House, summer 2003
Committee member, “Brooklyn Heights Montessori School Art Show” 2001
BWAC, 2000, 2001
Brooklyn CAPS, 1998, 1999
Gold Apple Award for Directing, “Buffalo Soldiers” (hour length documentary) 1994
Emmy Award Judge in the Documentary Director’s category, 1993-1999
Nominated for an Emmy Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, 1990
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, Honors College, Creative Visual Communications, Spring, 2009.
Adjunct Professor, Weber State University, Advanced Drawing, Spring 2007, Beginning Drawing Fall 2007
Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Foundation, 2001-present
Manage all operations and communications for the foundation and board members (part-time), including organizing and attending board meetings and interfacing with all the non-profit organizations requesting funds (approximately 200 annually). Foundation awards on average $1.7 million a year.
Independent film producer/director and writer. NYC 1989-2001
Produced/directed and wrote seven films and produced eleven others for national broadcast (The Discovery Channel, Lifetime, MSNBC and PBS) and one film for broadcast nationally and internationally (The Discovery Channel). Also produced over 40 interview shows broadcast nationally (PBS) as well as reversioning films (Oxygen Media and the BBC) and producing, directing and writing over 30 videos for foundations and corporations and the CBC.
EDUCATION
York University, Environmental Studies, Toronto, ON
PhD. Expected 2028.
Simon Fraser University, Graduate Liberal Studies, Vancouver, BC
Masters. 2024.
New York University, School of Education, New York.
Master of Art. 2001.
Two summers studying in Venice, Italy
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, NY
Post graduate study. 1991.
American University, Washington, D.C.
Washington Journalism Semester Program. 1983.
Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Studio Art. 1984.
Independent study in creative writing senior year with James Baldwin
You can find me other places, too.
Instagram at hannewatson
Creative writing blog is: www.echolaliaredacted.com
Reviews and articles: www.annewatsonwrites.blogspot.com
A mashup up videos and articles: www.annewatsoncompiled.blogspot.com
