Ruth Watson (artist)

Issues concerning the representation of the world have been a main focus of her work since that time.

Her work has been included in several exhibitions and publications relating to art and cartography.

Group exhibitions include the 9th Sydney Biennale The Boundary Rider (1992), Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art (1992), Cultural Safety, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen (1995 / 1996), The World Over, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1996), Living Here Now: Art and Politics (1999),[3] Paradise Now, Asia Society Museum, New York (2004), Better Places at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2008), Unnerved: The New Zealand Project Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010),[3] SCAPE Biennale of Public Art (2011), grenzūberschreitend/across boundaries, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen Germany (2018).

The same year, she collaborated with the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and created the largest map of the universe at that time.

[4] She joined the staff of Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2006.