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Born 1943, Boston, MA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Contact: janet@calarts.edu
For literary work go to janetsternburg.com
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 I’ve Been Walking, Rose Gallery, Bergamot Station, Loss Angeles
2021 Spendor, Galerie Carole Decombe, Los Angeles and Paris
2019 CHIARASCURO (Mexico Is My Way of Seeing), Mexican Consulate, Los Angeles, California
2018 Limbus, USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Overspilling World, Contrasto Galleria, Milan
2010 Janet Sternburg : Photographs, Skidmore Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, California
2009 Fertile Confusion, installation of photographs and projections commissioned for the inauguration of the Arts and Technology Center , Seoul Institute of the Arts, Ansan-si (South Korea)
2007 The Behavior of Light: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, Amerika Haus, Munich (Germany)
2007 The Behavior of Light: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, Carl Schurz Haus, Freiberg (Germany)
2006 The Behavior of Light: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, Deutsch- Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg (Germany)
2005 The Behavior of Light: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, Café Einstein Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
2005 The Behavior of Light: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg, Culver City, California
2002 Windows in Time : Janet Sternburg, James Frances Trezza Gallery, New York City
2000 Windows, Skidmore Gallery of Contemporary Art, Malibu, California
1999 Framed: Photos of San Miguel and Beyond, Bellas Artes, Galeria Principal, San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Mexican Photographs, as a winner of Julia Margaret Cameron Award, shown at Barcelona Biennial
2019 Contrasto Galleria, Sguardi, with Janet Sternburg, Richard Avedon, Elliot Erwitt, Sebastio Selgado, several others
2019 Mexican Consulate Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Passage, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York
2004 Two on Cuba, Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Insatiable Desires, New Acquisitions, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
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PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
2021 I've Been Walking: Janet Sternburg Los Angeles Photographs monograph Distanz Verlag (Berlin), Conversation with Jane Bennett
2018 Limbus, catalogue USC Fisher Museum of Art. Essays by Antonio Damasio, Eric Gudas, Selma Holo
2016 Janet Sternburg : Overspilling World, monograph Distanz Verlag, BerlinForeword by Wim Wenders, Essays by Pepe Karmel, Catherine Opie, Janet Sternburg, Alexandra von Stosch. Book launch events: Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles; Hauser & Wirth, New York; Lapidarium, Berlin; Foro Meravigli, Milan
2016 Selected Reviews of Overspilling World: Los Angeles Review of Books by Jack Miles; Forbes by Tom Teicholz, et al.
2012 - 2018 Times Quotidian, regular contributor on ''Photography and Time'' and ''Photography and Words", series of essays intercut with images and music
2005 Insatiable Desires, New Acquisitions, exhibition catalogue, (Los Angeles : USC Fisher Museum of Art)
2005 Optic Nerve: Photopoems (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press)
2005 Jörn Jacob Rohwer, ''The Lyrical View'', in The Behavior of Light, exhibition catalogue, (COMMISSIONED Berlin : US Embassy; catalogue for subsequent Embassy-supported traveling exhibition, Munich,Heidelberg, Freiberg
2003 ''A Writer Snaps'' cover photograph, portfolio, Teachers & Writers 35, no. 2 (November-December), pages 3-4
2002 ''Windows of Time'', portfolio, Aperture 166 (Spring), pages 32-37
2002 ''A New Lens'', Utne Reader Arts Extra: Movers and Shakers: The 40 Most
Exciting Soulful Artists of 2003
2002 ''A Writer’s Need to See'', cover photograph, portfolio, Art Journal 61, no.1
(Spring), pages 48-57
2000 Cover photograph, Prairie Schooner (Fall)
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COLLECTIONS
USC Fisher Museum Permanent Collection, Los Angeles
Seoul Institute of the Arts, Korea
Selected Private Collections: Daniel Greenberg & Susan Steinhauser, Elisabetta Zegna, James Lapine, Jon and Lillian Lovelace, Ira and Adelle Yellin, Jack Miles, et al.
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WRITINGS
Book, Anthologies, Journals
Literary Books
2014 White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine (Portland: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts)
2005 Optic Nerve: Photopoems (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press)
2002 Phantom Limb, American Lives Series, ed. Tobias Wolff (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press)
2000 The Writer on Her Work, edited with an updated introduction, preface by Julia Alvarez, 20th anniversary edition (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company)
1992
The Writer on Her Work, double edition, vols. I and II (London: Virago Press)
1991
The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory, vol. II, edited with an introduction (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company)
1980
The Writer on Her Work, edited with an introduction, vol. I (New York: W. W. Norton)
1974
Letters Stacked to Be Mailed: Four New Poets (New York: Saturday Press)
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SELECTED ESSAYS
2012 –20017 Regular contributor to the online cultural journal Times Quotidian, on photography and time, and word and image
1998 “Long Exposures: A Poetics of Film and History,” in Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History, ed. Tony Barta. (Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger)
1992 “Views from an Unstable Landscape,” in Re-Mapping Culture(s): Film and the Media Arts (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; JS Co-curator.
1987 “A Blank for New Things,” in The Arts for Television, exhibition catalogue Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Selected Theatre and Film
The Fifth String, playwright. A theater piece crossing time and space, bringing together Andalusia before 1492 with contemporary expulsions. REDCAT, Los Angeles 2015 ; La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City; staged readings, German translation at Capital Club, Berlin, Pact Zollverein, Essen.
1987-1990 Through Her Eyes, writer/curator, 13-part television series, independent films made by women, for The Learning Channel. 1987
Likely Stories, writer/curator, 13-part television series, independent fiction films, for The Learning Channel, 1990
1986
Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait. Co-writer. American Masters Series for PBS.
1972
Virginia Woolf: The Moment Whole, producer/ director for National Public Television (NET) Winner Cine Golden Eagle
1970
El Teatro Campesino, writer; co-producer/co-director for National Public Television (NET); screened at the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center
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SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2022 Julia Margaret Cameron Award
2016 REDCAT Award, co-recipient with Steven D. Lavine, REDCAT/CalArts, Los Angeles
2011 Residency, PACT Zollverein, Essen (Germany)
1977 Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1976-78 Fellow, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
1987 Fellow, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
1989 Fellow, Dale Djerassi Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California
1985 Fellowship, Scriptwriting, National Endowment for the Humanities
1972 Cine Golden Eagle Award for Virginia Woolf: The Moment Whole
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SELECTED POSITIONS
2003 - 2011 National Advisory Committee, PEN Center USA
2003 Presenter, “Pathways Between Neurology and Memoir” for Frames of Viewing: The Brain, Cognition and Art, a symposium co-organized by the Getty Research Center and the Stanford Center for Behavioral Studies
1990-2004 Faculty in Critical Studies, “Thinking and Feeling,” on neuroscience and art practice, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1990-1994 Consultant, Program for Art on Film for the Metropolitan Museum, New York City and the Getty Trust, Los Angeles
1993 Co-director, “Curating Across Cultures,” The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio (Italy)
1988 - 2002 Vice-President, Member Board of Directors, PEN Center USA
1988-95 Senior Program Advisor in Media, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York
1982-1988 Senior Program Office, New York Council for the Humanities
1976-1985 Senior Faculty, The New School University Graduate Media Studies
1971 -80 Director, Writers in Performance at the Manhattan Theatre Club, 1971-80
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