Colin Watson was born in Belfast and graduated with a BA Hons in fine art from the University of Ulster in 1988. To date he has had four solo exhibitions with Pyms Gallery, London, and has participated in numerous two-person and group shows at the Caldwell Gallery and Cavehill Gallery, Belfast, the Elaine Somers Gallery, Holywood, and the Ava Gallery, Clandeboyne, among others. He has also shown annually at the RUA and more recently the RHA, where he won the Don Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo medal in 2003. His work is represented in the collections of the Arts Council for Northern Ireland, the Royal Geographical Society, London, and the National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick.

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Colin Watson was born in Belfast in 1966. In 1988, he graduated with a B.A. Honours in Fine Art from the University of Ulster.

Watson has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, winning awards at the latter two.

In 1999, he was also awarded the Ireland Fund of Great Britain Annual Arts Award. His work has been included in the BP Portrait Prize Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and at the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London.

He continues to live and work in the city of Belfast.