Janet Zweig : Bio and CV


Public Art Commissions
	Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy: 7:11AM 11.20.1979 79°55'W 40°27'N, 2009, a memorial in Mellon Park's Walled Garden, Pittsburgh, PA.
	Florida Art in State Buildings: Lipstick Enigma, for the UCF Engineering School in Orlando, FL (in progress.)
	King County Library System, Seattle, WA: The Opposite of a Duck (#1), 2009, at the Fall City Library,Fall City, WA.
	City of Milwaukee: Pedestrian Drama, for the downtown streetscape, Milwaukee, WI (in progress).
	City of Santa Monica and the Related Companies: commission for new Santa Monica Village housing, Santa Monica, CA (in progress).
	Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC: The Opposite of a Duck (#2), for a new library in Glen Oaks, Queens (in progress).
	4Culture: Limited Edition, for the Brightwater Treatment Plant "Street of Alchemy," Seattle, WA. (in progress).
	Metro Arts in Transit: If You Lived Here You'd be Home, 2007, for the Maplewood Light Rail station, St. Louis, MO.
	Hiawatha Line Light Rail, Minneapolis, MN: Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting, 2004, a system-wide interactive artwork,
	MTA Arts for Transit, New York: Carrying On, 2004, a 1200' frieze in the Prince Street N/R NYC station, with Edward del Rosario.
	New Mexico Arts, Santa Fe: Impersonator, 2002, at Santa Fe Community College Instructional Technology Center.
	University of Minnesota Art on Campus, Minneapolis: for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, The Medium, 2002.
	New Landmarks - Fairmont Park Art Association, Philadelphia: open-air library, 1998 (on hold).
	Percent for Art, New York Department of Cultural Affairs: Your Voices, 1997, at Walton High School, Bronx, NY.
Public Art Awards
	Public Art Network Year in Review for 2009: for The Opposite of a Duck, curators: Helen Lessick and Fred Wilson.
	Twenty Seventh Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, 2009, from the Public Design Commission of New York City, for The Opposite of A Duck (#2) at the Glen Oaks Library, Queens, New York.
	Public Art Network Year in Review for 2007: for If You Lived Here You'd be Home, curators: Jody Pinto and Ted Landsmark.
	Public Art Network Year in Review for 2004: for Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting and Carrying On, curators: Donald Lipski and Sherry Kafka Wagner.
	Public Art Network Year in Review for 2002: for The Medium and Impersonator, curators: Patricia Phillips and Henry M. Sayre.

Grants, Awards
	New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Computer Arts, 1999.
	Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 1999.
	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Sculpture, 1994.
	Arts International New York Grant for Artists at International Festivals, 1992.
	The Engelhard Award, the Engelhard Foundation with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1991.
	Artists Space, New York Individual Artists Grant, 1990.
	Massachusetts Council on the Arts New Works Commission for visual/dance collaboration with artist Lorie Novak and choreographer Victoria Marks, 1987.
	Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Development Fund Grants, 1987 & 1990.
	Art Matters, Inc., NY Grants, 1986 & 1990.
	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, Artists' Books, 1985.
	Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, New Genres, 1985.
	Massachusetts Council on the Arts New Works Commission for artist’s book, 1984.

Fellowships, Residencies
	Residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. 1989, 90, 91, 93, 94, 07.
	Residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, 2007, 08, 09.
	Residencies at Blue Mountain Center, 1997, 99.
	Residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 1998.
	The Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 1991-92.
	National Studio Program, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, 1990-91.
	Residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for collaborative visual/dance performance with artist Lorie Novak and choreographer Victoria Marks, 1986.
	Artist’s residency at Nexus Press, Atlanta Georgia, 1981.

Selected Exhibitions
	Sculpture and Public Art exhibitions
	Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities University Gallery, Fine Art Center, UMass, Amherst, 2008.
	InWords: The Art of Language University Gallery, University of Delaware, 2007.
	Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, 2006.
	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, 2005.
	Reduce, Reuse, Reexamine, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY, 2004.
	Bronx Public Art: The Spotlight Series, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, 2003.
	Situated Realities, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2002.
	Paradise Now, Exit Art, New York City, and The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, 2000-2001.
	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, 1999.
	The Next Word, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 1998.
	Reading Between the Lines, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1998.
	Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union and the College Art Association, New York City, 1997.
	Parallel Universes, The Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY, 1997.
	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, 1995.
	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, 1994.
	Janet Zweig, Recent Sculpture, solo show, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, 1993.
	The Liar Paradox, solo show, Sala 1, Rome, Italy, 1993.
	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, 1992.
	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, 1991.
	Special Project Room, PS 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, 1990.
	Trouble in Paradise, List Visual Art Center at MIT, Cambridge, MA, and The Art Gallery, U. of MD, 1989.
	Artist's Books, etc.
	The Flipbook Show, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2005.
	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, 2004.
	Splendid Pages, Toledo Museum of Art, OH 2002 .
	Working in Brooklyn: Artists' Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2000 .
	Bibliovertigo, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL, 1995.
	Book Ends and Odd Books, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1994.
	Off the Shelf and On-Line, traveling exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 1992-3.
	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, 1992-5.
	Boundless Vision: Contemporary Bookworks, San Antonio Institute of Art, TX, 1991.
	Turning Pages, The Space Gallery, Boston, MA 1991.
	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, 1990.
	Ambitious, a project for Artforum, April issue, 1989.
	Artists/Books, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1989.
	Women’s Autobiographical Books, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1987.
	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, 1986.
	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, 1985.
	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, 1984.
	Breaking the Bindings: American Book Art Now, Elvejem Museum, University of Wisconsin, traveling, 1983.
	Ex Libris: Books by Artists, Traction Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1982.
	3 person show: Visible Language Workshop, MIT (offset prints), 1982.
	Presswork: Projects produced by Artists in Residence at Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA (offset prints), 1981.

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

Teaching
	Senior Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982-present.
	Adjunct lecturer, Brown University Graduate Program in Public Humanities, 2008-present.
	Visiting Critic, Yale University, 1991-2000.
	Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1983-1984.
	Adjunct faculty (1982-2000) at: Cooper Union, Bard College MFA Program, Anderson Ranch, Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Collections
	Sculpture in private collections including Howard Stein, Alan Chasanoff.
	Books in 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
	Editorial Board: Journal of Artists' Books, 1995-2000. Art Editor: Chain literary journal, 1997-2002.
	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, SUNY at New Paltz, Temple U. in Rome, Photographic Resource Center, Moore College of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Bard College, Maryland Institute College of Art, Connecticut College, Alfred University, Public Art Network Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Institute of Chicago, Vassar College.

Articles, Artist's Books
	"Artists, Books, Zines," Afterimage , Vol. 26, No. 1, 1998.
	"Ars Combinatoria: Mystical Systems, Procedural Art, and the Computer," Art Journal, fall issue, 1997.
	"Ars Combinatoria and the Book," Journal of Artists' Books, #8, 1997.
	"All Dressed Up With No Place to Go," Journal of Artists' Books, #4, 1996.
	nine editioned artists' books (1979-1989) 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
	Mitchell, W.J.T.and Mark B.N. Hansen, eds. Critical Terms for Media Studies, U. of Chicago Press, 2010.
	Drucker, Johanna. SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing (chapter 3.4), U. of Chicago Press, 2009.
	Phillips, Patricia C., "Please Give Norbert Weiner Some Naughty Schnauzers (and Other Curious Developments in the Work of Janet Zweig,)" Sculpture Magazine, April 2009.
	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.
	Mitchell, W.J.T. What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images, U. of Chicago Press, 2005.
	McMorrow, Deborah. Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine at Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2004.
	Mitchell, W.J.T. The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction, Modernism/Modernity Vol. 10, 2003.
	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
	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, 1988.
	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.