ACM Visiting Speaker Series: Janet Werner

Janet Werner's work as a painter focuses on the fictional portrait as a vehicle to explore notions of subjectivity and desire. Werner was born in Winnipeg and lives and works in Montreal. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Werner has shown widely in Canada including solo shows at the Art Gallery of Windsor; The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, The Ottawa Art Gallery and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg. Internationally, her work was presented at the Prague Bienale with recent exhibitions in Cape Town, Cologne and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. Werner’s work is included in numerous public and corporate collections.