Janet Zweig : Bio and CV


Public Art Commissions
2008	Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy: commission for a memorial garden in Mellon Park with La Quatra Bonci Associates (in progress.)
2008	Florida Art in State Buildings:artwork for the Engineering School at CFU (in progress.)
2007	Metro Arts in Transit: commission for artwork at the Maplewood Light Rail station, St. Louis, MO. If You Lived Here You'd be Home.
2006	City of Milwaukee: commission for artwork for downtown streetscape, Milwaukee, WI (in progress).
2006	City of Santa Monica and the Related Companies: commission for artwork at new Santa Monica Village housing, Santa Monica, CA (in progress).
2006	Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC: commission for artwork at a new library in Glen Oaks, Queens (in progress).
2006	Town of Huntington Station: commission for artwork at a new civic plaza, Huntington Station, NY (in progress).
2004	4Culture: Brightwater Treatment Plant "Street of Alchemy" Commission, Seattle, WA (in progress).
2004	Hiawatha Line Light Rail, Minneapolis, MN: system-wide interactive artwork. Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting.
2004	MTA Arts for Transit, New York: 1200' frieze in the Prince Street N/R NYC station, with Edward del Rosario. Carrying On.
2002	New Mexico Arts, Santa Fe: commission for public sculpture at Santa Fe Community College Instructional Technology Center, Impersonator.
2002	University of Minnesota Art on Campus, Minneapolis: commission for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, The Medium.
1998	New Landmarks - Fairmont Park Art Association, Philadelphia: open-air library (on hold).
1997	Percent for Art, New York Department of Cultural Affairs: commision for public scupture at Walton High School, Bronx, NY, Your Voices.

Grants, Awards
2008	Public Art Network Conference - Year in Review for 2007: selected for If You Lived here You'd be Home, curated by Jody Pinto and Ted Landsmark.
2005	Public Art Network Conference - Year in Review for 2004: selected for Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting and Carrying On, curated by Donald Lipski and Sherry Kafka Wagner.
2003	Public Art Network Conference - Year in Review for 2002: selected for The Medium and Impersonator, curated by Patricia Phillips and Henry M. Sayre.
1999	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Computer Arts.
1999	Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
1994	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Sculpture.
1992	Arts International New York Grant for Artists at International Festivals.
1991	The Engelhard Award, the Engelhard Foundation with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
1990	Artists Space, New York Individual Artists Grant.
1987	Massachusetts Council on the Arts New Works Commission for visual/dance collaboration with artist Lorie Novak and choreographer Victoria Marks.
1987 & 1990	Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Development Fund Grants.
1986 & 1990	Art Matters, Inc., NY Grants.
1985	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Artists' Books.
1985	Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, New Genres.
1984	Massachusetts Council on the Arts New Works Commission for artist’s book.

Fellowships, Residencies
1989, 90, 91, 93, 94, 07	Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.
2007, 08	Residencies at the Ragdale Foundation.
1997, 99	Residencies at Blue Mountain Center.
1998	Residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
1991-92	The Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome.
1990-91	National Studio Program, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY.
1986	Residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for collaborative visual/dance performance with artist Lorie Novak and choreographer Victoria Marks.
1981	Artist’s residency at Nexus Press, Atlanta Georgia.

Selected Exhibitions
	Sculpture and Public Art exhibitions
2008	Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities University Gallery, Fine Art Center, UMass, Amherst.
2007	InWords: The Art of Language University Gallery, University of Delaware.
2006	Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA.
2005	Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 years of Public Art, UBS Gallery, NYC.
2005	City Art, projects from New York's Percent for Art Program, Center for Architecture, NYC.
2004	Reduce, Reuse, Reexamine, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2003	Bronx Public Art: The Spotlight Series, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2002	Situated Realities, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2000-2001	Paradise Now, Exit Art, New York City, and The Tang Museum, Skidmore College.
1999	Beyond Technology: Working in Brooklyn , Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
1999	The Lottery, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1999	Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
1999	Arte del Nuevo Medio, Museo del Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1999	Popular Science, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
1999	Ex Machina, 2 person show at Connecticut College Symposium on Arts and Technology, New London, CT.
1998	The Next Word, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
1998	Reading Between the Lines, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1997	Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union and the College Art Association, New York City.
1997	Parallel Universes, The Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY.
1995	In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY.
1995	Mind Over Matter, solo window installation, Motel Fine Arts, NYC.
1995	X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1995	Body/Machine, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1994	The Computer in the Studio, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, and the Computer Museum, Boston.
1994	Contemporary Art in Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.
1993	Janet Zweig, Recent Sculpture, solo show, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art.
1993	The Liar Paradox, solo show, Sala 1, Rome, Italy.
1992	Taking Liberties, three-person show, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
1992	Volumination, The Ulrich Museum, The Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.
1992	Red Cross, The Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland.
1991	Invention and Revision, solo show at the Wallace Gallery SUNY, Old Westbury, NY.
1991	International Studio Program Exhibition, The Institute for Contemporary Art, PS 1 Museum, NY.
1990	Special Project Room, PS 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY.
1989	Trouble in Paradise, List Visual Art Center at MIT, Cambridge, MA, and The Art Gallery, U. of MD.
	Artist's Books, etc.
2005	The Flipbook Show, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2004	Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, travelling exhibition: U. of MN, Rutgers U., U of Richmond.
2004	Artist's Books, No Reading Required, the Walker Art Center and MN Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
2002	Splendid Pages , Toledo Museum of Art, OH.
2000	Working in Brooklyn: Artists' Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
1995	Bibliovertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL.
1994	Book Ends and Odd Books, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
1992-3	Off the Shelf and On-Line, traveling exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
1992-5	Photographic Book Art in the United States, traveling exhibition: Texas Woman's University, The Washington Center for Photography, San Francisco Camerawork, Houston Center for Photography, etc.
1991	Boundless Vision: Contemporary Bookworks, San Antonio Institute of Art, TX.
1991	Turning Pages, The Space Gallery, Boston, MA .
1990	Learn to Read Art: Artists' Books, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1990	Massachusarts, an exhibit of Massachusetts Fellowship recipients, Boston Center for the Arts.
1989	Ambitious, a project for Artforum, April issue.
1989	Artists/Books, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1987	Women’s Autobiographical Books, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
1986	Editions and Additions: International Bookworks, U. of California touring exhibition.
1986	In Context: Contemporary Artists’ Books and their Antecedents, the Atheneum, Alexandria, VA.
1986	Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellows, Polaroid’s Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1986	New Narratives, American Bookworks in Print, Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona.
1986	Photographic Books to Photobookworks - 150 Years of Photography Publication, CA Museum of Photography.
1985	American Bookworks in Print, sponsored by the USIA, traveled to Spain, Germany, Cameroon, Liberia, Senegal.
1985	Typographisms, Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
1985	Light/Heavy Light: Contemporary Shadow Use in the Visual Arts, San Francisco Cameraworks.
1984	Offset: A Survey of Artists’ Books, a traveling exhibition by New England Foundation for the Arts.
1984	Books Artists Have Made, Cleveland Art Institute.
1984	An Exhibition of 50 Artists who use Offset as an Innovative Medium, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery.
1983	Breaking the Bindings: American Book Art Now, Elvejem Museum, University of Wisconsin, traveling.
1982	Ex Libris: Books by Artists, Traction Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1982	3 person show: Visible Language Workshop, MIT (offset prints).
1981	Presswork: Projects produced by Artists in Residence at Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA (offset prints).

Education
	MFA: The Visual Studies Workshop, State University of NY, Rochester, NY.
	BA: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Teaching
1982-present	Senior Critic, Rhode Island School of Design.
1991-2000	Visiting Critic, Yale University.
1983-1984	Assistant Professor, Boston University.
1982-2000	Adjunct faculty at: Cooper Union, Bard College MFA Program, Anderson Ranch, Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Visual Studies Workshop.

Collections
	Sculpture in private collections including Howard Stein, Alan Chasanoff.
	Books in many collections including: The Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, International Center of Photography, California Institute for the Arts, The Houghton Library at Harvard; The Cleveland Art Institute; Wellesley College Library; The Visual Studies Workshop; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Walker Art Center; the Pompidou Center; The Rhode Island School of Design.

Lectures, Panels, Editorial positions
1997-present	Editorial Board: Journal of Artists' Books. Art Editor: Chain literary journal.
1980-present	Guest lecturer at numerous institutions including: MIT, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston U., Wesleyan U., Worcester Art Museum, the Hartford Atheneum, NYU, Harvard U., U. of Massachusetts, Folger Shakespeare Library, Brown U., Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY at Purchase, Temple U. in Rome, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Bard College, The Maryland Institute of Art, Connecticut College, Alfred University, Public Art Network, Carnegie Mellon University, The Art Institute of Chicago, Vassar College.

Articles, Artist's Books
1998	"Artists, Books, Zines," Afterimage , Vol. 26, No. 1.
1997	"Ars Combinatoria: Mystical Systems, Procedural Art, and the Computer," Art Journal, fall issue.
1997	"Ars Combinatoria and the Book," Journal of Artists' Books, #8.
1996	"All Dressed Up With No Place to Go," Journal of Artists' Books, #4.
1975-1989	nine editioned artists' books including Sheherezade, 1988, This Book is Extremely Receptive, 1989 (published by Pyramid Atlantic (both in collaboration with writer Holly Anderson), and Heinz and Judy, a play, 1985, published by the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA.

Selected Bibliography
	Smith, Todd, "City describes Itself on Metrolink Bridge," Mid-County Journal, St. Louis, Jan. 9, 2008.
	Brown, John, "New Maplewood Sign Turning a Few Heads," Fox News TV broadcast, St. Louis, Dec. 17, 2007.
	Koutsky, Linda, Janet Zweig interactive Art Kiosks, Downtown Journal April 24, 2006.
	Flanagan, Regina, Scape, summer, 2005.
	Kayim, Gulgun, "The Hiawatha Line," Public Art Review, Spring-Summer, 2005.
	Marvin Heiferman, editor, City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program, Merrell Publishers, 2005.
	Jack Sullivan, "Train of Thought," Saint Paul Pioneer Press, November 13, 2004,
	MPR's Morning Edition with Cathy Wurzer, two radio programs about the Hiawatha Light Rail interactive project, 2004.
	Steve Dietz, "Interactive Publics," Public Art Review, Fall-Winter, 2003
	Deborah Karasov, "SITE: University of Minnesota Art on Campus Program," Sculpture Magazine, October, 2003
	Art in America, August Annual Guide: Public Art 2002 in Review: Impersonator.
	Penny Balkin Bach, Lucy Lippard, Thomas Hine, New Landmarks: Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place, Editions Ariel and Fairmount Park Art Association, 2000.
	Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review" (Brooklyn Museum of Art), The New York Times, Sept. 3, 1999.
	Gass, William H., "In Defense of the Book," Harper's Magazine, Nov., 1999
	Cotter, Holland, "Way Up in the Bronx a Hardy Spirit Blooms," The New York Times, May 7, 1999.
	Means, Amanda, "Janet Zweig's Kinetic Sculpture," Bomb , Winter, 1999.
	Blankstein, Amy, "Commissions," Sculpture Magazine, May, 1998
	Drucker, Johanna "Artists' Profiles" and cover image, Art Journal, fall issue, 1997.
	Brush, Anjanette, "Virtual Selves and Historical Bodies," Exposure, Vol. 31, 1997.
	Cosper, Darcy. "Community Action", Metropolis Magazine, Fall, 1996.
	Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, 1995.
	Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "Janet Zweig - Artificial Mind Games," Art New England, June/July 1994.
	Drucker, Johanna. "Artists' Books and the Cultural Status of the Book," Journal of Communication, Winter 1994.
	Temin, Christine. "Women sculptors on cutting edge," The Boston Globe, December 8, 1993.
	McQuaid, Kate. "Graves and Zweig: sharp stuff at Mass College of Art," The Boston Phoenix, December 3, 1993.
	Polkinhorn, Harry. "Object with no Interior," American Book Review, February-March, 1993.
	Skadjune, David. "Off the Shelf and On-Line," Artpaper, November, 1992.
	Huber, Caroline, and Jane Creighton. "Taking Liberties" (catalogue) DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, 1992.
	Chadwick, Susan. "Artists take some liberties with their work," The Houston Post, November 14, 1992.
	Harrison, Helen A. "General Washington, Meet Colonel North," The New York Times, October 6, 1991.
	Levinson, Nan. "Bowdler Revisited," Index on Censorship, March, 1990.
	Levinson, Nan. "Cuttings," Boston Review, January, 1990.
	Friis-Hansen, Dana. "Trouble in Paradise" (catalogue), MIT List Visual Art Center, 1989.
	Princenthal, Nancy. "Artists' Book Beat," Print Collectors' Newsletter, Nov.-Dec., 1989.
	Gessert, George. "Green Light: Reviews of Artists' Books," Northwest Review, vol. 27, #2, 1989.
	Hoffberg, Judith. "Artists' Books," High Performance, winter, #44, 1988.
	Princenthal, Nancy. "Artists' Book Beat," Print Collectors' Newsletter, May-June, 1988.
	Scott, Joanna. "Life is a Book," Afterimage, April, 1987.
	Tannenbaum, Barbara. Exposure, The Journal of the Society of Photographic Education, 1983.
	Zelavansky, Paul. "Piggybacking a Genre," American Book Review, May-June, 1983.
	Gever, Martha. Afterimage, Summer, 1982.
	Phillpot, Clive. Franklin Furnace Flue, Spring, 1982.
	Stewart, Bhob. Views, Journal of New England Photography, 1982.
	visual/dance pieces reviewed in: Boston Herald, Oct. 29, 1988; Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 1988; Boston Phoenix, Nov. 4, 1988; New YorkTimes, Dec. 10, 1986; Downtown, Dec. 19, 1986; The Village Voice, Dec. 30, 1986; Boston Globe, Oct. 14, 1986; Boston Herald, Oct. 14, 1986.

Collaborations
1988	Acts of Omission, a visual/dance performance in collaboration with choreographer Victoria Marks, presented at the Strand Theater, Boston, MA, and at Dance Theater Workshop, NY.
1986,87,88	What Holds You, a a visual/dance performance in collaboration with Lorie Novak and Victoria Marks, presented by the Boston Dance Umbrella, Boston, MA, 1986; Dance Theater Workshop, N. Y., 1987; The Place Theater, London Dance Umbrella, London, 1987; and the Strand Theater, Boston, 1988.