Lives and works in NYC
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MassArt), 2D Fine Art
2013 BFA, University of Washington, Painting and Drawing, Art History Minor
2011 University of Washington Studio Art Program in Rome, Rome, Italy
AWARDS/GRANTS
2023 Single Palm for Best Curation, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angelas, CA
Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant, NYFA, NYC, NY
2021 Ongoing Platform Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation For the Visual Arts & Tufts University Arts Galleries, Boston, MA
2019 Artist’s Grant, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
RESIDENCES
2024 Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2023 Potato Farm Project, Riverhead, NY
2022 Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2021 - present EFA Studio Program, NYC, NY
2021 McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2019, 2020 PrattMWP & Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2018 Beijing Royal School Residency, Beijing, China Brant Gallery Residency, MassArt. Boston, MA
2015, 2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Should I Warn The Others, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Lickety-Split, All in Jest! (solo booth), SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
Origin Story (solo), Kapow Gallery, Tribeca, NYC, NY
2022 Shifting Looks For Suspended Moments (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
2021 The Directed Eye (solo), Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield, 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
SPACORE, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL
Doomsday & Night, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2022 A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY, NY
Fiber Reveries, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
SOURCE, MassArt x SoWa, Boston, MA
2021 [body]2[body], EFA Studio Program, NY, NY
Conflict Point, McColl Center of Arts + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
Nature, as part of Imaginary Collective, undisclosed location
STORYLINES, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2020 If You Like This, You’ll Love That, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2019 Storage Space, Imaginary Collective, undisclosed location
2018 In A Domestic Partnership (It’s Complicated), How’s Howard, Boston, MA
Domestic Memory, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
HARD: Subversive Representation, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston, MA
2017 Private Screening: A Selection of Experimental Film, The Annex, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
Boston Young Contemporaries (curated by Steve Locke), Faye G., Joe, and James Stone Gallery, Boston, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Baklar & Paine Galleries, Boston, MA
2016 Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long, Skinny Nose (Online Exhibition Show #35 curated by Paulina Bebecka), Field Projects, New York, NY
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2024 d’Avignon, Angella, Trippy Highlights From LA’s Spring/Break Art Show, Hyperallergic, Feb. 2024
2023 Cascone, Sarah, A Trip to Spring Break Art Show Yields a Touching Encounter With Steve Buscemi, a Racy Call Center, and…, Artnet, Sept. 2023
Elia, Christina, Janet Loren Hill Debuts Her Surrealist Textile Paintings At KAPOW, Widewalls Magazine, May 2023
Quiñones Wolfson, Sarah, LA’s Spring Break Art Show Is a Wacky Lucid Dream, Hyperallergic, Feb. 2023
Cascone, Sarah, The Spring Break Art Fair Once Again Brings Quirky Surprises to Los Angeles… Artnet, Feb. 2023
Gogosian, Jerry, Episode #15: Freezing at Frieze, Art Smack Podcast, Feb. 2023
Lim, Kristin, What We Saw at Frieze Week Los Angeles 2023, Scout Magazine, Feb. 2023
LePique, Annette, ‘Serenity, NOW’: “Treat Yourself” becomes accusation and threat at “SPACORE”, Chicago Reader, Apr. 2023
2022 Loughman, Monica, OUTCOMING AIR: JANET LOREN HILL, Artists In Rise, www.artistsinrise.com
2020 Imaginary Collective Zine, Issue 1
Video Interview: The Imaginary Collective: BH GOES TO LOWELL TO TALK ART AND ANARCHY WITH IMAGINARY ARTISTS by Sophie Yarin and Huck Vaughn, Boston Hassle, Boston, MA
C. Shardae Jobson, The Imaginary Collective: Challenging Conventions Around Art, Property, And Storage, DigBoston, SEPT
Zminda, Phil, Invisible and Imaginary: The Art Exhibition No One Saw, Boston Art Review, SUMMER
2019 Episode #219 – MWPAI Artists 2019, Uticast Podcast, SEPT
2018 Meet Janet Loren Hill, “Thought-Provokers” series, BostonVoyager, JUL
Johnson, Jameson, The New Domestic, Boston Art Review Magazine, Issue 1: Notions of Place, MAY
Ruymann, Mallory, Janet Loren Hill at SPACE ONE TWO ONE, The Rib, APR
Ruymann, Mallory A., Women, subverting the script, in HARD: Subversive Representation, Big Red & Shiny, MAR
Johnson, Jameson, In Conversation: Lurking Behind My Teeth, Boston Art Review, MAR
McQuaid, Cate, Meeting the male gaze and making it blink in ‘HARD: Subversive Representation’, The Boston Globe, JAN
2017 New American Paintings, No. 129, MFA Annual Issue, Boston, MA
TEACHING
Painting
Intro to Painting (SP ’24), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Light Color Design Lab (FA ‘19, FA ’20, FA ’21), Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute (MWP Campus)
Light Color Design Studio (SP ’20), Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute (MWP Campus)
Junior/Senior Painting Major Studios (SP’ 17, FA ’20), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Drawing
Drawing Fundamentals (SP ’24), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Senior Drawing Survey (FA ’23), Guest Critic, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn Campus)
Visualization/Representation (FA ’20, FA ’21), Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute (MWP Campus)
Visualization/Representation/Concept (SP ’21), Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute (MWP Campus)
The Figure in Motion (SP ’23), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Drawing with Color (SP ’20, FA ’21, SP ’22, FA ’22, SP ‘23), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Imaginary Drawing (FA ’17, SP ’20), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Studio for Drawing (FA ’20), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Drawing for Painting Majors (FA ’18), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Sculpture
Soft Sculpture: Multiples (SP ’18, SP ’19), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Fibers Media Lab (FA ’17), Substitute Faculty, School of Museum of Fine Arts
Sculptural Weaving (SP ’17), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Interdisciplinary
Capstone Portfolio (FA ’24), Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Creativity and Difference (FA ’17), Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
PANELS/LECTURES
2022 Panelist, Winter/Spring Incoming McColl Center Resident Applications, Charlotte, NC
2018 Panelist, HARD / Object of Dread on Representation and Visibility, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston, MA
Panel Moderator, Drawing in the Wired World, MassArt, Boston, MA
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Secret Show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
YARD SALE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LA, CA
2022 A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
Cuddle Puddle, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, NY
2016 Quicksand, New Art Center, Boston, MA
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2021 Participant, Anti-Racist Critique Learning Community (facilitated by Billie Lee and Judith Leemann), MassArt, Boston, MA
2D Faculty Representative, Easton Pribble Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, PrattMWP College of Art & Design, Utica, NY
2019 Participant, Anti-Racism Dialogues: Past, Present and Future of Representation & Critique in Art and Design Education, MassArt, Boston, MA
Participant, Anti-Racism Dialogues: Courageous Conversations (weekly dialogue group), MassArt, Boston, MA
Participant, Colleges of the Fenway Dialogue Lunch: Ideas for Teaching Diversity in the College Classroom, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Co-organizer, Thriving Classrooms: Building a Positive and Prepared Studio Community for Youth, MassArt, Boston, MA (Workshops organized: Cultural Humility: The Cultures Of Our Classroom (Jessica Ray-Mendoza), Teaching All Students – The What, Why, And How (Chandra Mendex-Ortiz), Outside Of Therapy: Promoting Mental Health, Wellness & Safety (Jennifer Fauci), Building Classroom Community (Nestor Ortiz))
2017. Participant, Colleges of the Fenway December Dialogue: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, MassArt, Boston, MA
Participant, Colleges of the Fenway Annual Teaching & Learning Conference: Self Regulated Learning: Active Learning on the Inside/Ensuring and Assessing the Learning in Authentic Experiential Learning, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA