Curriculum Vitae
Janet Kozachek
EDUCATION:
1990 M.F.A., Painting, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1986 - 1987 Courses in Ceramic Sculpture, State Academy of Applied Arts, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
1983 - 1985 Certificate of Graduate Study in Chinese Art, Beijing Central Art Academy
Beijing, China
1980 B.A., Art/Science, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
HONORS/AWARDS:
2004 Second Place, Sculpture, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC
First Place, Painting, South Carolina State Fair, Columbia, SC
Puffin Foundation Award: Producing a Body of Work
2002 Best in Show, South Carolina State Fair, Columbia, SC
Honorable Mention, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC
City of Orangeburg and Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center: Grant for
Creating a Mosaic Mural in Collaboration with Jeri Burdick
2001 Horne Foundation and Orangeburg Count;y Fine Arts Center: Award for
Creating a Public Art Work for Edisto Park
2000 Curator’s Choice Award: “Face-To-Face 2000,” The Stage Gallery, New York. Marietta Siegel, PhD, Juror
1992 - 1995 Small Grants Awards Recipient, Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center
1988 - 1989 Helena Rubinstein Scholar, Parsons School of Design
AWARDS FOR NON-PROFIT CORPORATION:
1999 Puffin Foundation: Award for establishing a new national non-profit organization for the promotion of mosaic art in the United States. (The Society of American Mosaic Artists)
1999, 2000, 2001,2002 Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center: Institutional Support Award for the Society of American Mosaic Artists
2002 South Carolina Humanities Council - A Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Award for developing and implementing the first national exhibition and conference for mosaic art in the United States.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2007 “Stones, Bones and Fabrics: Excavating Civilizations of the Mind” Two-Person Show with Susan Lenz, Pinckney-Simmons Gallery, Columbia, SC
2006 “Milongueros,” Pinckney-Simmons Gallery, Columbia, SC
2005 “Excavations and Reflections of an Imagined Archaeology,” Rabold Gallery, Aiken, SC
2005 “Domiciles,” Pinckney-Simmons Gallery, Columbia, SC
1999 “New Works,” Nina Liu, Charleston, SC
1997 “Objects of Desire,” Portfolio Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
1996 “Faces, Figures and Forms,” HOFP Gallery, Columbia, SC
1994 “Ekphrasis: The Image and the Written Word,” Goin Gallery, Charleston, SC
1993 “East Meets West: The Paintings of Janet Kozachek,” I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, SC
1993 “Janet Kozachek - Landscapes,” Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007 “Desert Andamento” Mesa Center for Contemporary Art, Mesa, AZ, Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists
“Frolics, Romps and Rollicks, Dances for the Light-Hearted.” Two-Person Show with Susan Lenz FOCB Gallery, Edisto Island, SC
2006 “Beneath the Surface,” High Risk Gallery, Chicago, IL Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists
2005 “Dia de los Muertos,” Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, Juried Exhibition
2005 “A More Perfect Union,” Ellipse Art Gallery, Arlington, VA, Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists.
2004 “Compositions of Creation,” 4-Person Show , FOCB Gallery, Edisto Island, SC
“Piecework: Mosaic and Assemblage by Eight Women Artists,” North Charleston Cultural Arts Center, North Charleston, SC/Rabold Gallery, Aiken, SC
2004 “Opus Veritas,” Museo Italo-Americo, San Francisco, CA, Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists
2003 - 2006 “Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life” One of 10 South Carolina Artists selected to take part in a five-state exhibition on art and spirituality. Curator: Eleanor Heartney. A joint project of the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Kentucky Arts Council, North Carolina Arts Council, South Carolina Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission
2004 - 2006 “South Carolina Birds,” Sumter Art Gallery, Sumter, SC, City Art Gallery, Charleston, SC. Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Wim Roefs
2003 “Earth Elements,” Miami Dade Community College Gallery, Miami, FL Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists
2003 “Face-to-Face 2003,” Merrick, NY, Juried Exhibition
2002 - 2003 “Palmetto Hands Traveling Exhibition,” South Carolina State Museum
2002 “Artist’s Screens,” Eleven Eleven Sculpture Gallery, Washington, DC, Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Binnie Fry
2002 “Pieceful Visions I,” Society of American Mosaic Artists, Orangeburg, SC
Juried Exhibition, Society of American Mosaic Artists
2001 “Conglomerations,” I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, SC, Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Frank Martin
2000 “Domiciles,” Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center, 2-Person Exhibition with Nathaniel O. Wallace
1997 “Square,” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, Juried Exhibition
1996 “Art Station Festival,” Summer Olympic Games Atlanta, GA Juried Exhibition
1995 “Aesthetic Transplantations: Yankee Seeds in Southern Soil,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Janet Kozachek
1994 “Quadrat,” Konstanz Art Society, Konstanz, Germany, Juried Exhibition
“Spotlight on Southern Artists,” Atlanta, GA, Juried Exhibition
1993 “The Art of Nature,” The North Museum, Lancaster, PA, Juried Exhibition
1992 “September Exhibition,” Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA, Juried Exhibition
1992 “Body and Soul,” Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY, Juried Exhibition
1992 “Works on Paper,” Nathans Gallery, Patterson, NJ, 4-Person Show
1990 “Small Works,” City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Juried Exhibition
“Works on Paper,” Perkins Art Center, Moorestown, NJ, Juried Exhibition
“Women’s Visions of Women,” Columbia University Gallery, New York, NY, Juried Exhibition
“American-Soviet Artists Exchange,” Moscow, U.S.S.R. Sponsor: Trenton Artists Workshop Association
1989 “Janet Kozachek and Tejo Phillips,” Gallerie de Vierde Dimensie,
Plasmolen, Holland, 2-Person Exhibition
“Works by Women Artists,” The Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Juried Exhibition
1988 “Landscapes,” New Jersey State Bar Association/Art Intentions, New Brunswick, NJ
“Works on Paper,” Nabisco Corporation/Art Intentions, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1985 “Works on Paper,” Beijing Central Art Academy Gallery, Beijing China, Graduate Thesis Exhibition
BIOGRAPHY:
Who’s Who in the World, Marquis 2005-2006
Who’s Who in American Education, Marquis 2004-2005
The New Mosaics, D.T. Dawson, Lark Books. Featured Artist
Archive, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Verve, South Carolina Educational Television, 2001, Featured Artist
COMMISSIONS:
1996 - 2007 Private Commissions for Residences in Charleston, SC, Princeton, NJ,
Chicago, IL
2004 “Crucifix with Twelve Roundels” First Baptist Church, Orangeburg, SC
COLLECTIONS: South Carolina State Museum and Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, SC, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, Calhoun County Museum, St. Matthews, SC, Beijing Central Art Academy Gallery, Beijing, China, Numerous Private Collections.
PUBLICATIONS:
2006 “Milongueros: Paintings of the Argentine Tango and Beyond” Carolina Arts. November, 2006
2005 “Excavations and Reflections of an Imagined Archaeology,” Carolina Arts. May, 2005
2002 “Pieceful Visions/Conglomerations” Exhibition Catalogue with Nathaniel O. Wallace, JoAnn Locktov and Frank Martin
2000 “Mosaic Sites to See: The Princeton University Collection” Groutline. Summer, 2000 “Mosaic: Craft, Fine Art, or Both?” Groutline. Autumn, 2000
1997 - 1998 Essayist, Evening Reader Magazine: Articles on Art and Social Issues Series
1994 “Connections and Correspondences,” Exhibition Catalogue
1985 “Impressions in Stone,” Renditions 24 (Autumn): 155-65 Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
2007 Panel Chair, “Towards a New Perspective on Non-Western Mosaics and Their Legacies.” Paper Presentation: “Fetish, Talismanic and Votive Objects: Skipping Past the Greco-Roman Block.” 6th Annual Society of American Mosaic Artists Conference, Mesa, Arizona.
2004 “Archaic Characters in a Post-Modern Milieu” Fourth International Conference on East Asian Calligraphy Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2004
Panel Chair, “Mosaics as Healing Art” Paper Presentation: “A Summation of Parts: The Rhythm of Work in Sickness and in Health.” Third Annual Society of American Mosaic Artists Conference, San Francisco
1994 “Appropriation and Synthesis: Biculturalism in Art,” American Association of Chinese Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
SELECT REVIEWS:
“Art in Pieces,” Easy Street, Summer 2004
“Explorations of the Face, Both Realistic and Fanciful,” The New York Times, Sunday, June 4, 2000
GALLERIES:
Pinckney-Simons Gallery, Columbia/Beaufort, SC, FOCB Gallery, Edisto Island, SC, Women’s Echoes, Aiken SC
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1991 - Present Arts-In-Education Instructor, South Carolina State Arts Commission program. Instructor at public, private schools, museums and art centers. Subjects: Chinese Art and Language, Figurative Painting, Mosaics
1999 - 2002 President and Chief Executive Officer: Society of American Mosaic Artists Volunteer Position: Established an international arts organization for the promotion of mosaic art. Administrated, recruited, raised funds, co-edited the first two years of the quarterly newsletter, Groutline.
1990 - 1991 Professor of Art, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
After School Arts Education Instructor, YWCA, Princeton, NJ
1987 -1991 Tour Director and Translator for tours to the People’s Republic of China, China Educational Tours, Boston, MA, InterPacific International, New York, NY
1985 - 1987 Lecturer in Art, University of Maryland, European Division
1981 - 1985 English Teacher, People’s Republic of China: Hebei University, Jilin University, Institute of Developmental Biology.
Worked summers in overseas corporations: American Combustion Engineering, Carvax Corporation
LANGUAGES: Mandarin Chinese (oral and written), German (oral) Dutch (oral)