CV & Bio
Janice Nowinski paints from snapshots, found photographs, and art historical paintings. The paintings are not much larger than the snapshots that she is working from which makes for an intimate relationship between the photos and their transformation.
Nowinski was born in Manhattan and grew up in Rockaway Park, Queens. She studied at the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, and received her MFA in painting from Yale University (1987). Her work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy Museum, and the American University Museum. Nowinski’s work is represented by Thomas Erben Gallery.
Nowinski’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Hudson Review, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Huffington Post and American Artist.
She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was an awardee of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program for 2022-23.
EDUCATION
1987 Yale University, College of Art, M.F.A. Painting
1985 New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Thomas Erben Galery, New York, NY
2021 Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery, curated by Anne Harris, Chicago, IL
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, NY, NY
Come a Little Closer, DC Moore, NY, NY
2022 Small Paintings, Venus over Manhattan, NY, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York, NY
Apple in the Dark, Harkawik Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Body in Question, Painting Center, New York, NY
Alone in This Together, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
Thomas Erben Gallery - 25 Years, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2020 The Enabling Act, M. David & Co, Brooklyn, NY, NY
2019 Women Out of Doors, National Arts Club, NY, NY
Dance with Me, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Afflatus, curated by Suzanne Unrein and Amy Hill, 5-50 Gallery, L.I.C., NY
2018 Figures, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2017 Elisa Jensen and Janice Nowinski, Valentine Gallery, Queens, New York
2016 On Painting, Kent Fine Arts, New York, NY
Painting in New York, Leigh Morse Fine Art, NY, NY
#PUSSYPOWER, David Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Human Mysteries; BFP Creative, curated by Clintel Steed, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Jardin, Studio, No. 4 Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Studio Visit with Janice Nowinski, Documentary Art Project Film, Gorky's Granddaughter
Suchi Pritchard, Whitehot Magazine, Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben Gallery
2023 Karen Wilkin, @thehopkinsreview, Janice Nowinski and Karen Wilkin: A Conversation
2022 Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review, "At the Galleries" Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben Gallery, PRINT, Winter
Charity Coleman, Art Forum, Art Forum, PRINT January 2022
2021 Katherine Bradford, Art Forum, PRINT December 2021, The Artists' Artist, Best of 2021
Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic, Beer with a Painter, Janice Nowinski
John Goodrich, Painting Perceptions, Janice Nowinski: Recent Paintings
John Yau, Hyperallergic, The Ever-Changing Dialogue Between Paint and Body
Sangram Majumdar, Two Coats of Paint, “Bad Boyfriends and Pink Bathers: A Conversation with Janice Nowinski”
Kyle Staver & Janice Nowinski, "What She Said", Wagner College, Newsroom
2020 Kyle Staver, Painters on Painting, “Kyle Staver on Janice Nowinski”
Anne Harris, Painters on Painting, “Anne Harris on Nowinski and Williams: Looking In and Out” 2019 "Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint" Catalog Essay by Anne Harris, Riverside Arts Center, September 2019
2018 John Mitchell, "Interview with Janice Nowinski", September, 2018
2017 John Goodrich, Hyperallergic, "Figures Formed from the Primal Energies of Paint", June 2017
James Panero, New Criterion, "Gallery Chronicle", April 2017
2016 Patrick Neal, Hyperallergic, "Figurative Painting That's Emphatically Human"
Karen Wilkin, The Hudson Review, "At The Galleries"
2013 John Goodrich, Oneviewat, "John Lees: Painting/Janice Nowinski: Recent Paintings"
Xico Greenwald, Painting Perceptions, "A Studio Visit with Janice Nowinski"
Daniel Maidman, Huffington Post, "The Trustworthy Image: Janice Nowinski at John Davis Gallery"
2012 “Necessary Arrangments”, catalog essay by Jennifer Samet, Painting Center, New York, NY
Neil Plotkin, Painting Perceptions, "Interview with Janice Nowinski"
John Seed, Huffington Post, "Janice Nowinski: Naughty Postcards and the Man by the River"
AWARDS
2022 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Awardee
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2014 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fairfield Museum of Art, CT
Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
Portland Community College, Oregon
Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA