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curriculum vitae
Education
2001 University of Leeds, MFA Studio Practice
1999 University of British Columbia, BFA, Visual Art, minor in English Literature
Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions
2024 Spotlight: Janet Wang, Vancouver Art Gallery
2023 To Exit is to Enter, Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam
Peep Show, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
Ports of Entry, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt
2022 Ports of Entry, Fort Gallery, Fort Langley
2021. Found in the Forest, Art Rentals + Sales Program operated by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2019 Peep Show, Truck Gallery at the Calgary Central Public Library
2016 Soft Spectacle, Popup Downtown, Regina
Make/Repeat/Alter, Comox Valley Art Gallery
2015 Habit@, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver
2014 Discerning Nature, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby
Archetypical, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver
2010 Communication and Transience (with Heather Passmore), Comox Valley Art Gallery
2007 Inside Out (with Gwenessa Lam) Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
2006 The Party, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver
Living Room, University Women’s Club, Vancouver
2005 Snapshots, Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver
2001 Familiar bodies and b-sides, University of Leeds, Leeds
Public Art
2023 Irving House Public Art, artist-in-residence, City of New Westminster
2022 Holding Pattern, City Centre Canada Line Station with City of Vancouver Public Art program
Open Plan, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Headquarters, Ottawa
2020 Ports of Entry, National Billboard Exchange with Inc Hamilton, Paved Arts and AKA Saskatoon
2019 Four Seasons of Movement, Clement Track Public Art Fence, Public Art Richmond
2017-2018 Ten Different Things, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Living Labs; Public Art City of
Vancouver; Simon Fraser University and CityStudio,
Group Exhibitions
2023 Counting the Seconds between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Project, NY
2019 Women Work, curated by Germaine Koh, Vancouver Central Public Library
2016 The Commons, The Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2015 30 Years, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver
Antics, James Black Gallery, Vancouver
2014 Homeland, CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver
2012 Temporary Assignment, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
Love Letters to Feminism, The Works Gallery, Edmonton
2011 Splash, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver
2010 The Contemporary Woman, Maynards Fine Arts, Vancouver
Twitter/Art+Social Media, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Art Institute of Vancouver
I’m Fine, You’re Fine, On the Rise Gallery, Vancouver
Strip Mining for Creative Cities, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto
2008 Footprints ArtStarts Gallery & Metropolis, Vancouver
Material Worlds Ghost Gallery, Seattle
Wish you were here City/Space, San Francisco
2007 Little landscapes & miniature worlds Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
2002 Majority Rules! Free Gallery, Glasgow
Vauxhall Open 2002 St Peters Cathedral, London
2001 Immediate 2 Site Gallery – Sheffield
1999 Accessions Access Gallery, Vancouver
BFA Graduate Show, Asian Library, University of British Columbia
Projections AMS Gallery, Vancouver
Signal Design Arts Gallery, Vancouver
1998 Local Spaces AMS Gallery, Vancouver
Awards
Project Assistance Grant, BC Arts Council, 2023
Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2022
Visual Artist Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2021
Project Assistance Grant, BC Arts Council, 2020
Project Assistance Grant, BC Arts Council, 2018
Professional Development Grant, BC Arts Council, 2016
Don S Williams Grant, FANS North Shore, 2015
Visual Arts Development Award, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2007
Rize Prize, 2007
Featured artist of the British Chinese Artists’ Association, 2004
British Columbia Arts Council senior award, 2000
Herb Gilbert Emeritus Ecozoic Art Prize, 1999
Residencies
Wassaic Project, Family artist resident, 2022
Deer Lake Artist residency, 2021
Artists for Kids and School District #44, Artist-in-residence, 2020
Once Upon Water, Artscape Gibraltar, 2019
Coppermoss Artist Residency, 2018, 2019 and 2020
Malsapina Printmakers, Vancouver, 2018
Leeway artist in residence, Emily Carr University, 2016
Artist in Residence, Burnaby Arts Council, 2014
ArtsStarts, Artist Residency with Bodwell High School, 2008
Site Gallery, new media residency & commission in collaboration with the Arts Council of England, 2001
Publications/Catalogues
Kate Armstrong, Adrian Sinclair and Laura Kozak, Ten Different Things, 2018
30 Years, Seymour Art Gallery, 2015
Neil Chung and Hilary Letwin, Janet Wang: Archetypical, short film, 2014
Stories from a Flickering Plain, Catalogue, Anh Lee, 2012
Merete Kristiansen and Zoe Pawlak, I’m Fine, You’re Fine, Exhibition Catalogue, 2009
Carie Helm, Inside Out, Exhibition Catalogue, 2007
Immediate 2, Interview with Monika Oeschler
Academic and Teaching
Artist for Kids, Senior Art Intensive, 2022
Artists for Kids, enrichment workshop, 2020
Artist talk and panelist, Ten Different Things Symposium, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2018
Instructor, Continuing Studies, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2016 - current
Instructor, Lasalle College Vancouver (previously Art Institute of Vancouver), 2006-current
Instructor, Illustration, Langara College, 2014-2019
Public Art Selection, North Vancouver, 2017
Juror, Painting on the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists, 2016
Artist Talk, Emily Carr University and North Island College, 2016
Design Panel, First Nations Employment Society, 2011
Artists in Education Selection Advisory Committee, ArtStarts, 2008 - 2012
Artist Talk, “Processing Painting in Digital Times,” Comox Valley Art Gallery, 2010
Instructor, Painting & Drawing, Roundhouse Community Centre, 2009
Bibliography
Deer Lake Gallery explores Nature, Burnaby Now, September 22, 2014
Janet Wang: Archetypical, Vancouver Sun, February 5, 2014
Stories from a Flickering Plain, Comox Valley Echo, 2012
Alexander Varty, Art Tweets in Blips and Bleeps, Georgia Straight, April 15 2010
Brett Bonderud, Social media plays muse, Langara Voice, April 8 2010
Jonathan Hanley, Twitter/Art+Social Media Show at Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver Observer, April 5 2010
Hans Ongsansoy, Getting the art world a-Twitter, The Province, April 1 2010
Gillian Shaw, Vancouver gallery turns its sights on the fine art of tweeting, Vancouver Sun, March 31 2010
Art Exhibit all a twitter about social media, Vancouver Courier, Mar 26 2010
Zoe Margaret, I’m Fine, You’re Fine: On the Rise Artist Collective, whiteHot Magazine, April 2009
Leah Sandals, Strip searching, Now Toronto Magazine, Vol.28, January 29-Feb 5, 2009
Anticipating The East Side Culture Crawl, Scout Magazine, October 2008
Wish you were here: The Souvenir and Urban Memory, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2008
Wish you were here: Souvenirs feels like home, San Francisco Chronicle, 2008
From Inside to outside, The Richmond Review, September 19, 2007
Eastside Culture Crawl, Ricepaper, Winter 2005
Ruth Charity, Contemporary Art in Sheffield, Portfolio Magazine, Fall 2001
Alfred Hickling, Immediate 2, The Guardian, October 29, 2001
Robert Clark, Immediate 2: New Work, New Media, Artists Newsletter, Fall 2001
Tractors, streetlights and an orange caravan on the floor, Sheffield Telegraph, October 2001