Lives and works in NYC
EDUCATION
MFA | Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), 2D Fine Art, 2017
BFA | University of Washington, Painting and Drawing, Art History Minor, 2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025-present | Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, Felician University
2018-present | Faculty, Studio Arts Certificate Program, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)
2019-2021| Adjunct Faculty, Foundations Department, Pratt Institute (Munson)
2019 | Faculty, Pre-College Summer Studios, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2021 - present | Studio Member Fellowship, EFA Studio Program, NYC, NY
2023 | Single Palm for Best Curation, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LA, CA
2023 | Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant, NYFA, NYC, NY
2021 |Ongoing Platform Grant, Collective Futures Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation For the Visual Arts & Tufts University Arts Galleries, Boston, MA
2019 |Artist’s Grant, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
2023 | Potato Farm Project, Riverhead, NY
2022 | Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2021 | McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2019 | Pratt Munson, Utica, NY
2019 | Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018 | Beijing Royal School Residency, Beijing, China
2016, 2015 | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2026 | TBD, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA
2025 | Conflict Entrepreneurs (solo), KAPOW Gallery, NYC, NY
2024 | Should I Warn The Others, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA
2023 | Lickety-Split, All in Jest! (solo booth), SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2023 | Origin Story (solo), KAPOW Gallery, NYC, NY
2022 | Shifting Looks For Suspended Moments (solo), Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
2021 | The Directed Eye (solo), Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
2020 | Pulled Down Eyelids, Read With Intention, Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor Gallery, PrattMWP College of Art & Design, Utica, NY
2018 | The Way We Sit In Rooms, Brant Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 | Lurking Behind My Teeth (solo), Space One Two One, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | FLUSH, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LA, CA
2023 | In Retrospect, Monira Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2023 | SPACORE, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
2022 | A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2022 | Fiber Reveries, The Border Project Space, NYC, NY
2021 | [body]2[body], EFA Studio Program, NYC, NY
2021 | Conflict Point, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2021 | Nature, as part of Imaginary Collective, undisclosed location
2020 | If You Like This, You’ll Love That, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2019 | Storage Space, as part of Imaginary Collective, undisclosed location
2018 | In A Domestic Partnership (It’s Complicated), How’s Howard, Boston, MA
2018 | Domestic Memory, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 | HARD: Subversive Representation, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston, MA
2017 | Private Screening: A Selection Of Experimental Film, The Annex, Boston University, Boston, MA
2017 | Boston Young Contemporaries (curated by Steve Locke), Faye G., Joe, and James Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2016 | Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long, Skinny Nose (Online Exhibition show #35 curated by Paulina Bebecka), Field Projects, NYC, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Print
2023 | LePique, Annette, ‘Serenity, NOW’: “Treat Yourself ” becomes accusation and threat at “SPACORE”, Chicago Reader
2020 | Zminda, Phil, Invisible and Imaginary: The Art Exhibition No One Saw, Boston Art Review, Issue 5: No Boundaries
2020 | Vaughn, Huck and Yarin, Sophie, The Imaginary Collective, Boston Hassle
2018 | Johnson, Jameson, The New Domestic, Boston Art Review, Issue 1: Notions of Place
2018 | Johnson, Jameson, In Conversation: Lurking Behind My Teeth, Boston Art Review
2018 | Asuncion, Lani, Janet Loren Hill Speaks With Lani Asuncion About Her Exhibition “Lurking Behind My Teeth”, Boston Hassle
2018 | McQuaid, Cate, Meeting the male gaze and making it blink in ‘HARD: Subversive Representation’, The Boston Globe
2017 | MFA Annual Issue, No. 129, New American Paintings
Podcasts/Television
2025 | Valdez, Aida, et al, Episode #54 - The Art Market, Transborderart
2023 | Gogosian, Jerry, Episode #15: Freezing at Frieze, Art Smack Podcast
Online Publications
2024 | d’Avignon, Angella, Trippy Highlights From LA’s Spring/Break Art Show, Hyperallergic
2023 | Cascone, Sarah, A Trip to Spring Break Art Show Yields a Touching Encounter With Steve Buscemi, a Racy Call Center, and Much, Much More, Artnet
2023 | Elia, Christina, Janet Loren Hill Debuts Her Surrealist Textile Paintings At KAPOW, Widewalls Magazine
2023 | Quiñones Wolfson, Sarah, LA’s Spring Break Art Show Is a Wacky Lucid Dream, Hyperallergic
2023 | Cascone, Sarah, The Spring Break Art Fair Once Again Brings Quirky Surprises to Los Angeles, From Musical Chandeliers to Live Mystery Tattooing, Artnet
2023 | Lim, Kristin, What We Saw at Frieze Week Los Angeles 2023, Scout Magazine
2022 | Loughman, Monica, OUTCOMING AIR: Janet Loren Hill, Artists In Rise, www.artistsinrise.com
2020 | Jobson, Shardae, The Imaginary Collective: Challenging Conventions Around Art, Property, And Storage, DigBoston
2018 | Ruymann, Mallory, Janet Loren Hill at SPACE ONE TWO ONE, The Rib
2018 | Ruymann, Mallory A., Women, subverting the script, in HARD: Subversive Representation, Big Red & Shiny
INVITED TALKS
2018 | Panelist, HARD / Object of Dread on Representation and Visibility, UMass Boston
2018 | Panel Moderator, Drawing in the Wired World, MassArt
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Felician University, Sole Instructor
Painting I (fall 2025)
Basic Drawing and Composition Section A (fall 2025)
Basic Drawing and Composition Section B (fall 2025)
Pratt Institute, Munson, Sole Instructor
Visualization/Representation (fall 2020, fall 2021)
Light Color Design Lab (fall 2019, fall 2020, fall 2021)
Visualization/Representation/Concept (spring 2021)
Light Color Design Studio (spring 2020)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Sole Instructor
Color Theory (spring 2025, spring 2026)
Intro to Figure Drawing (fall 2025)
Capstone Major Studio Independent Study (fall 2025)
Drawing II: Seeing, Thinking, Making (summer 2024)
Intro to Painting (spring 2024)
Drawing Fundamentals (spring 2024)
The Figure in Motion (spring 2023)
Drawing with Color (spring 2020, fall 2021, spring 2022, fall 2022, spring 2023)
Soft Sculpture: Multiples (spring 2018, spring 2019)
Pre-College Summer Studios: 3D Fundamentals (summer 2019)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
To College
Easton Pribble Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, Pratt Institute (Munson), 2021
Anti-Racist Critique Learning Community, MassArt, 2021
Anti-Racism Dialogues: Past, Present and Future of Representation & Critique in Art and Design Education, MassArt, 2019
Workshop on Ideas for Teaching Diversity in the College Classroom, Emmanuel College (thru Colleges of the Fenway Dialogue Lunches), 2019 Anti-Racism Dialogues: Courageous Conversations, MassArt, 2019
Thriving Classrooms: Building a Positive and Prepared Studio Community for Youth Committee, MassArt, 2019
Workshop on Self Regulated Learning: Active Learning on the Inside/Ensuring and Assessing the Learning in Authentic Experiential Learning, Emmanuel College (thru Colleges of the Fenway Dialogue Lunches), 2017
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2024 | Running Joke, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, NY
2023 | Secret Show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2023 | YARD SALE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LA, CA
2022 | A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2022 | Cuddle Puddle, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2016 | Quicksand, New Art Center, Boston, MA
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 | Visiting Critic, Visual Art Department, The Evergreen State College
2024 | Visiting Critic, School of Art, Ball State University
2024 - present | Career Coach, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers, The Cooper Union
2024 | Academics Coordinator, PreCollege Program, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn)
2023-2024 | Visiting Critic, Drawing Department, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn)
2017 - 2020 | Visiting Critic, Painting, Fibers and Interdisciplinary Departments, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2017 - 2019 | Youth Programs Coordinator, MassArt
2017 | Substitute Faculty, Fibers Department, School of Museum of Fine Art
2016 - 2017 | Continuing Education Administrative Coordinator, MassArt
2013 - 2015 | Lead Registrar and Figure Model Coordinator, Gage Academy of Art
