Janet Jones
Janet Jones has a practice in cultural production both as an artist and scholar. She received her MFA from York University, Toronto, and her Ph.D. from New York University, NY, in the area of art theory and criticism. Her thesis, Clement Greenberg and the Artist/Critic Relationship, focused on Greenbergian Modernist criticism in relation to painting and the internal structure of the 'Greenberg Group' from 1940- the early 1980's in NY and Canada. Her paintings, which investigate the hybrid spaces of contemporary globalism in relation to feminist geography and technology, have been exhibited across Canada, New York, England, Germany and France. She has been a visiting artist and given papers internationally: in France, England, Russia, China Cuba, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Janet Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto. She was the Director of the MFA Graduate Program in Visual Arts, (1997-2000) and Coordinator of the Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program (1990-93). In 2002 she received the Dean's Teaching Award for outstanding teaching and contribution to the life and vibrancy of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Recent exhibitions/projects include: Artist Project, Public- Cities / Scenes Issue 22, exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt Germany, Faux-Mouvement, Metz, France, Owens Art Gallery, N.B., and Sylviane Poirier Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec. Last year she was a visiting artist and gave papers on her work at: Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hogeschool, Rotterdam Netherlands; and the Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany.

She is currently writing an article titled 'Painting the Spaces of Feminism: Drifting with the Flâneuse ' for Feminismo/s, University of Alicante, Spain; proposing to co-edit an issue of Public magazine on the theme of the Techno-Sublime which will include her article: Panorama: Drifting in the Techno-sublime and applying for a SSHRC Creation/Research Grant as the Principal Investigator. This project titled: Painting the Spaces of Hybridity: Discourses by Canadian Painters, includes eight painters and two art critics/curators from across Canada.