Born in 1959 in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Lives in Montreal, Québec
Education
MFA Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT, US
BFA Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Anat Ebgi, New York, NY, US (upcoming)
2025
Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium (upcoming)
2024
'Spiders and Snakes', Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2023
'Call Me When You Start Wearing Red', Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, US
2022
'Crush', Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY, US
2021
'Romantik', with Keer Tanchak, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX, US
'There There', Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
2020
Armory Show, with Amie Dicke, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY, US
2019
Janet Werner, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
'What time is it, Mr. Wolf?', Art Gallery of Guelph, Canada
'I Feel Real', with Sandra Meigs, VIVIANEART, Calgary, Canada
2018
'The Splits', Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2017
'Sticky Pictures', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, solo booth with Parisian Laundry, Los Angeles, CA, US
2015
'Zero Eyes', Esther Massry Gallery, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY, US
'Drop, Drop Slow Tears', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2014
'Abby and Snow', Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Janet Werner, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, US
2013
'Another perfect day', Touring exhibition: Esker Foundation, Calgary; Gallery de l’UQAM, Montreal; Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto; Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon; McIntosh Art Gallery, London, UK
2012
'Mad, Bad, Sad, Glad', What if the world Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Earthling', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2011
'Beauty takes a holiday', Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada
2010
Janet Werner, Galerie Julia Garnatz, Cologne, Germany
'Who’s Sorry Now?', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2009
'Is Anything Alright?', Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
2008
'Too much happiness', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
'New Work', Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada
2007
'Buttercup I love you', Galerie Julia Garnatz, Cologne, Germany
2006
'Up here in heaven', Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada
'Misfits', Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montreal, Canada
2005
Janet Werner, SBC Galerie d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2004
Janet Werner, Robert Birch, Toronto, Canada
Janet Werner, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002
'Since first I cast eyes on you / Depuis mon premier regard sur toi', Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada
Janet Werner, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Janet Werner, Tracy Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001
Janet Werner, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Janet Werner, The Gallery Art Placement, Saskatoon, Canada
2000
'Beautiful Losers', with Michael Fernandes, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
'New Work', Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
'Trust', Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Canada
'Trust', Estevan National Exhibition Center, Estevan, Canada
1999
'Trust', Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
'Portraits', MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
'Trance', with Patrick Traer, Plug In Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
'Trust', Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada
'New Paintings', Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada
'Portraits', Tableau Vivant, Toronto, Canada
1998
'Trust', Optica, Montreal, Canada
'Lucky', Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada
1997
'Lucky', Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
'Trance', The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
'Listen', with Beaty Popescu, AKA, Saskatoon, Canada
1996
'Slow Pictures', Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1995
'Janet Werner/Kathleen Sellars', Eye Level, Halifax, Canada
'Figures and Fields', Sir Wilfred Grenfell Gallery, Corner Brook, Canada
'Scat', Galerie Axe NEO 7, Gatineau, Canada
1994
'Lingua', La Centrale, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada
1992
'Reflections on Language and the Appearance of Things', Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
1991
'Reflections on Language and the Appearance of Things', Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1990
'Paintings', Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1989
'Rehearsing the World', Plug In Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
'Beaubadugly', Musée international d’arts modestes à Sète, France
'Magic Mirror', Wilhemina’s Art Gallery, Hydra, Greece
'The First Taste', Anat Ebgi, New York, NY, US
2023
'SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile', Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
'Les plus beaux cauchemars / Cruel to be kind', Livart, Montreal, Canada
'Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism', Almine Rech, London, UK
'Feeling of Light', Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
'Pussy Galore', DHArtworld, Edmonton, Canada
'The Range', Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX, US
2021
'North by Northeast', Kasmin, New York, NY, US
NADA Miami, presented by Bradley Ertaskiran, FL, US
Frieze NY, presented by Anat Ebgi, NY, US
'Quarante', Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada
'In Good Company', Anat Ebgi, LA, CA, US
2019
'Person/ne', Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
'The Conversation', Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, US
'Heads', Macintosh Art Gallery, London,
Frieze LA, presented by Anat Ebgi Gallery, CA, US
2018
'Flower, Petal, Tongues', Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2017
'How the light gets in', Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
'PDA Lovers', Four Six One Nine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Industry', DC3 Projects, Edmonton, Canada
2016
'De Ferron a BGL', Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, Canada
Art Toronto, Parisian Laundry and Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
'Silhouettes and Other Shadows', Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada
'Jupe Bleue, Une Blonde, Des Calculatrices et un nu couché', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2015
'Elles Aujhourd’hui', Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
'L’Œil et l’Esprit', Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
'Sexish', Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
'Oh, Canada', Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
'Side Project', Pop Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2014
'Portrait', Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada; The Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, US
'Masquerade', Musée du Bas St. Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada
2013
'The Painting Project/Projet Peinture', Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
'Painting Perspectives', Axenéo 7, Gatineau, Canada
'Perfect Imperfections', School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2012
'The Winnipeg Alphabestiary', Simon Fraser University Gallery, SFU Burnaby; University of Lethbridge Art Gallery,j Canada
'Oh, Canada', Mass Moca, North Adams, MA, US
2011
'Bestial Encounters', Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
2010
'Extreme Painting', Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2009
'Added Value', Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2008
'Intrus/Intruders', Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
'Generation', Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
'Entre/Voir', Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
2007
'Some Girls', McClure Gallery, Montreal, Canada
'Framed: The art of the portrait', Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
2006
'Peindre', Centre d’Exposition de Baie Sainte Paul, Baie Sainte Paul, Canada
2005
'Individuation', Galerie Esthésio, Québec City, Canada
2004
'Sweet and Sour', Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003
Prague Biennale, 'Lazarus Effect', Prague, Czech Republic
'Dog Days', Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
'Woman', James Baird Gallery, St. John's, Canada
2002
'Posers', St. Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
'Beautiful Stranger', The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
'Portraits - Robots', Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
2001
'Defining the Portrait', Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2000
'Small Craft Warning', Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
1999
'Les Peintures', Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1998
'Mixed Messages', Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
1993
'Anima <-> Materia', Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
'The Heliotropic, I', Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1992
'Propositions/Painting', Charles Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1991
'Remembering and Telling: Reflections on Identity and Location', Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
1990
'Memory and Subjectivity', Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto; Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre, Sudbury, Canada
Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada
Banque Nationale, Montréal, Canada
Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Canada
Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Canada
Canadian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Collection de la Caisse de Depot et placement du Québec, Canada
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, US
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Aldo Group, Montreal, Canada
Hydro Quebec, Canada
Selected Residencies and Awards
2020
Canada Council publication grant
2019
Canada Council project grant
2019
Griffin Art Projects Residency
2015
Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship
2012
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Development Grant
2011
Canada Council project grant
2010
Canada Council project grant
2007
Canada Council project grant
2005
'Peindre', Symposium Internationale d’art Contemporain, Baie Sainte Paul, Québec
2004
Canada Council Grant
2003
New York Studio, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), NY, US
2001
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, A grant
1999
Canada Council B Grant
1998
'Women and Paint' Residency, The Banff Center for the Arts
Saskatchewan Arts Board Project Grant
1996
Canada Council Project Grant
1995
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, Canada Council Studio
1993
Yaddo, NY, US
