Artist's Resume
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
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 U.S.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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
“Janet Kozachek - Landscapes,” Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004 “Piecework: Mosaic and Assemblage by Eight Women Artists,” North Charleston Cultural Arts Center, North Charleston, SC/Rabold Gallery, Aiken, SC
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
1995 “Aesthetic Transplantations: Yankee Seeds in Southern Soil,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Janet Kozachek
1989 “Janet Kozachek and Tejo Phillips,” Gallerie de Vierde Dimensie, Plasmolen, Holland, 2-Person Exhibition
BIOGRAPHY:
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
COLLECTIONS: Morris Museum of Art, Columbia Museum of Art, I.P. Stanback Museum, Painted Bride Art Center, Calhoun County Museum, Beijing Central Art Academy Gallery, First Baptist Church, Orangeburg, SC, Numerous Private Collections.
PUBLICATIONS:
1997 - 1998 Essayist, Evening Reader Magazine: Articles on Art and Social Issues Series
1985 “Impressions in Stone,” Renditions 24 (Autumn): 155-65 Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
GALLERIES:
Currently Represented by: Nina Liu, Charleston, SC, Pinckney-Simons Gallery, Columbia/Beaufort, SC, Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC, FOCB Gallery, Edisto Island, SC, Solo Art Gallery, Winston-Salem
WORK EXPERIENCE:
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.
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
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)