Born in Canterbury in 1962, Ruth Watson has a Masters in Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts (1999) and a PhD from the Australian National University. Recent exhibitions include the Myriad Worlds at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Big Wall (2011), Unnerved: The New Zealand Project Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010), and Better Places at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2008). Ruth Watson teaches at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.