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    BIO

    Janna is an independent curator, writer, and artist.  As a curator she has worked with numerous art spaces, including NURTUREart, Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, the Rubin Museum, Booklyn, SOHO20 Gallery, the Chelsea Music Festival, Goucher College's the Silber Art Gallery, the Rosenberg Gallery, and others.   Her curatorial and writing projects have appeared in such publications as ArtForum, Art in America, the New York Times, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Art Critical, and 1000 Words (London).  She holds an MFA from Hunter College CUNY (New York), and has completed additional studies at CUNY, the School of Visual Arts (New York), the Universidad de Murcia (Spain), and the Center for Nonviolent Communication (Brooklyn / Germany / Columbia).  She is the recipient of residencies, grants, and fellowships from A.I.R. Projects (Beijing), Marble House (VT), NARS Foundation (NY), PLAYA Art & Science (OR), Byrdcliffe (NY), Making/Thinking (NY), and the Rema Hort Foundation (NY), among others.  As an artist she has exhibited at such spaces as the Beirut Art Museum (Lebanon), 205 Hudson (NY), and 601Artspace (NY). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, ArtSlant, Curator Magazine, SEEN, and L’Orient du Jour.   As a researcher and curatorial advisor, Janna has worked with numerous artists and artist estates, among them the Barbara Hammer Estate, Yto Barrada, the Walter Ferro Estate, and others.  A 2nd-generation Dutch American raised on the West Coast, Janna lives and works in Brooklyn.

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    “BmoreArt Picks,” BMore Arts Magazine, February 2024.*

    "Ana Vallejo: Looking for Love in the Context of a Global Lockdown, PH Magazine / Photographic Museum of Humanity, May 2021"^^ 

    "Slow Connection: TSA GVL presents REDIRECT in Asheville," Kate Averett, BURNAWAY Art Review, Feb. 13, 2020^

    "Lovers’ Discourse: Cansu Korkmaz at SOHO20," 

    "An Art Show for Hundreds of Women, and That's Just the Artists," Melena Ryzik, New York Times, May 17, 2019^ 

    "A Review: Relative Material at Nurture Art," Huffington Post, Christian Hendricks, November 20, 2017*

    "A House Without a Roof," PDN Magazine, June 2016*

    "Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016^

    "Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016^

    “Editorial Pick: Mary Walling Blackburn & Rafael Kelman, Booklyn,” Art in America, Dec. 2015*

    “Synchronizing the Cycles of Capitalism and the Female Body,” Hyperallergic, Sept. 2015*

    “Critic’s Pick: Adam Golfer, Booklyn Art Gallery,” ArtForum, July 2015*

    “Janna Dyk: Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Curator Magazine, May 2014^

    “Sneak Peak: MFA Open Studios,” Tribeca Citizen, March 2014^

    “Selections from Open Studios,” sftpwr.com, Bonnie Mancini, November 2012^

    “Critics' Pick,” ON SILENCE, Time Out New York, June 18, 2012*

    “Music, Meeting at the Crossroads,” Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, June 17, 2012*

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