JANA STERBAK

Born in 1955, Prague
Resides in Montreal

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002 Malmö Konsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
“Jana Sterbak: The Conceptual Object”, Barbar Gross Galerie, Munchen, Germany
“Jana Sterbak: Photopractice,” Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
“Jana Sterbak: Pensare ad alta voce / Penser tout haut / Thinking out loud”, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemoranea, Università di Roma la Sapienza, Rome, Italy
“La Lune à l’école et planétarium de Jana Sterbak,” Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
2001 “Dissolution,” Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg
“Penser tout haut / Thinking out loud”, Galerie de L’UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2000 Galerie Ema Hécy, Luxembourg
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Le Cirva, Marseille, France
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Edicions T, Barcelona, Spain
1997 "Jana Sterbak: Metamorphosis," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
1996 "Jana Sterbak: New Photoworks," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Trichotilomania III," Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
1995  "VELLEITAS," exhibition organized by Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Musée d'Art Modern de Saint-Étienne. Travelled to: Musée d'Art Modern de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (1996) and Serpentine Gallery, London, England (1996).
"Jana Sterbak," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 "Jana Sterbak: Déclaration," Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
"Jana Sterbak: Déclaration," Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
1993 "Jana Sterbak," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"I Want You to Feel the Way I Do," Fundacio "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain
"Jana Sterbak: Lenine rétréci," Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
1992 "Jana Sterbak: States of Being," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (Ottawa show)
"Jana Sterbak: Projects 38," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Galerie Crousel-Robelin/BAMA, Paris, France
"Power Play," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
"Jana Sterbak: States of Being," Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (Ottawa show)
"Jana Sterbak: States of Being," Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada (Ottawa show)
1991  "Jana Sterbak: States of Being," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (travelling exhibition)
"Jana Sterbak: States of Being," List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA (Ottawa show)
"Sisyphe, 11," Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1990  Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1989 The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1988 The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
1987 The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1985 The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1982 "Golem - Objects As Sensations," Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1981 "How Things Stand Up," Main Exit, Vancouver, Canada
1980 YYZ, Toronto, Canada (small works)
"Travaux recents," Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 "Banquete: Metabolism and Communication," ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 “After the Lost Tones”, Galerie de l’UQUAM, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
2001 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 "Collecting Ideas: Works from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection," Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
"Muscle - Power of the View," Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
1998 "Addressing the Century," Hayward Gallery, London, England. Travelling to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.
"Skin-deep," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Crossings / Traversées," Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
"The Quiet in the Land," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"Spectacular Optical," Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
"Disidentico: maschile femminile e altro," Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
"The Secret Life of Clothes," Mitsubishi-jisho Artium/The Nishinippon, Fukuoka, Japan
"Desde el Cuerpo: Alegorias de lo femenino," Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1997  David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
"Floating Images of Women in Art History," Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Japan
"The Quiet in the Land," Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
"Art/Fashion," Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY
"Inside the Visible," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
"Art on the Edge of Fashion," Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
"Embedded Metaphor," Western Art Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
5th International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey
1996  "Corps étrangers," Musee des Beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
"L'oeil du Collectionneur," Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
"Il tempo e la moda," Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
"Embedded Metaphor," Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY
"NowHere," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"L'Art au corps," MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
"Collection / Parcours (Genevieve Cadieux, Annette Messager, Jana Sterbak), Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, France
"Feed and Greed," Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Vienna, Austria
"Inside the Visible," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; White Chapel Art Gallery, London, England (travelling exhibition)
1995 "Colisiones-Collisions," Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
"Picola Scultura," Padova Biennale, Padova, Italy
"Féminin-masculin: le sexe de l'art," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Muse?" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Die Muse?" Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
"Beyond the Borders," Kwangju Biennale
"PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Geneviève Cadieux and Jana Sterbak," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Traces de la danse," Musee d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada
Knokke Video Festival, Knokke, Belgium
"Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century," Tate Gallery, London, England
"Inside the Visible," Kanaal Art Foundation, Courtrai, Belgium (travelling exhibition)
"Premiers Dons 1964-1965 et Dons 1989-1994," Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
"Immagini in Prospettive," Cinema "Verdi," Serre di Rapolano, Italy
"Bildende Künstler im TAT: Phase 1," Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt, Germany
"Spirits on the Crossing: Travelers to/from Nowhere, Contemporary Art in Canada 1980-94," travelling exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1994 "Social Fabric," Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
"Heart of Darkness," Kröller Müller, Oterloo, Holland
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
"Trans," Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Hors limites: L'Art et La Vie 1952-1994," Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'art Moderne, Paris, France
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
"..ou les oiseaux selon Schopenhauer," Musée des Beaux-arts d'Agen, Agen, France
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Scénographie-danse (avec Javier Pérez), O'Vertigo, Montreal, Canada
"Séduction," Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
1993 "Uber Leben," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Allemagne
"Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas," Americas Society, New York, NY
"Elective Affinities," Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England
"Destruction," Munich, Germany
"Fall from Fashion," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Canada, une nouvelle generation," FRAC des pays de la Loire, Garenne Lemot, France
"Just to Name a Few," Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"At the Edge of Chaos - New Images of the World," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"Clothing as Metaphor," The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
"Elective Affinities," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
1992  "Generique 1: Desordres," Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
"Third International Istanbul Biennale," Istanbul, Turkey
"Between the Sheets," P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Internationale Kunstlerplakate," Saarbrucken, Germany
"Power Play," The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991 "The Wealth of Nations," Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Varsovie, Poland
Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
"Un-Natural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
"Interiors," Galerie Crousel-Robelin/BAMA, Paris, France
"Un archipel de desirs: les artistes du Quebec et la scene internationale," Musee du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
"With this ring..." Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
"En hommage a un cadeau d'Eva Hesse a Sol LeWitt," Axe Neo-7, Hull, Canada
"The Embodied Viewer," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
"Vanitas," Galerie Crousel-Robelin/BAMA, Paris, France
1990 "Four Cities Project," Newcastle, England
"Diagnosis," Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
"Aperto '90," XLIV Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Figuring the Body," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989  Biennale canadienne d'art contemporain, Musee des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
"Dark Rooms," Artists Space, New York, NY
1988  "Impossible Self," Winnepeg Art Gallery and The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"Identity, Identities," Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg, Canada
"Group Material," Dia Foundation, New York, NY
"Disturbance, Enchantment," The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
1987  "Subject/Object," 56 Bleeker Gallery Limited, New York, NY
1986 "Oeuvres Ex-Centrees," Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
"Songs of Experience," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Jana Sterbak, Krzysztof Wodiczko," 49th Parallel, New York, NY
Nexus Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
"Sept sculpteurs canadiens," Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
"Drawings Show," Southern Alberta Gallery of Art, Lethbridge, Canada
1985 "Anadromous," Michael Katz Gallery, New York, NY
"Ida Applebroog and Jana Sterbak," Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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