b. 1987 San Jose, California, USA
Lives & works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2016 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2013 MFA: Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2010 BA: Cinematic Arts and Technology, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & HONORS
2024 The Farther Place Residency: Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2022 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
2021 Fiskars AiR, Fiskars, Finland
2018 Crosstown Arts Residency, Memphis, TN
White Leaves Artist Residency, El Rito, NM
2015 Summer Emerging Artist Residency: Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York, NY
2011-2013 College of Fine Arts Student Excellence Award: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2010-2011 David J. Bruton Fellowship: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2010 Distinction in the Major: California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2022 Summer in Shanghai: Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
Xanadu x Janaye Brown: Xanadu, Berlin, Germany
2018 Point in Time: Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
Rocks, with Salt: Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2017 body building: Practice, New York, NY
2014 A Selection from Immediate Symphony: Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2013 Video Studio-Long Takes: Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2022 Midnight Murmurs: Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA
Extremely Shorts Film Festival: Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2021 If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Video Now: 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY
Wheaton Biennial_final_final_FINAL: Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Feminist Film Festival: Maribor, Slovenia
Gimmie 5: GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Berlin, Germany
Home Alone 3 - On Pause: Hudson Valley Community College , Troy, NY
2020 VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival: Los Angeles, CA
2019 ALC Video Art Festival: Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain
A Space Came There and Crashed: Fancy Fancy Studios, Austin, TX
Samples #7: Frontera Garibaldi, Mexico City, Mexico & The James Black Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
CineKasimanwa- Western Visayas Film Festival: Iloilo City, Philippines
2018 WLAR: Etiquette Gallery, Santa Fe, NM &Northern New Mexico College, El Rito, NM
Open Screening: Seattle Film Institute, Seattle, WA
A•GEN•CY- A Home in the World: Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Land and Sea: Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
studentteacher: Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
Video Screen at the Wall Academic Center: Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2017 THRESHELD: Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Not/Normal: Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Mov Video Art Festival: Castello di Brescia, Brescia, Italy & Art-Omins, Artogne, Italy
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!: Skowhegan, New York, NY
Light Year 21- Peering Behind Appearances: Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI & Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Sleeper Cell: Metropolitan Structures, Baltimore, MD
Single Channel via NURTUREArt: Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
19 Nervous Breakdowns: IDACO NYC, New York, NY (collaboration w/Marissa Brown)
One/Sixth: de stijl - podium for art, Austin, TX
2015 CollabFest 2015: Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY (collaboration w/ Marissa Brown)
Video Social Club at Plymouth Art Weekender: Plymouth Social Club, Plymouth, UK
Video Archipelago via Transmitter: Space Available, Brooklyn, NY
Happy Hour: Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery, New York, NY
2014 We Have Never Been Modern: Dope Chapel, Norman, OK
Video Art @ The Banff Centre: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB, Canada
Dallas Video Fest 27: Angelika Film Center, Dallas TX
Way Down Low: Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Extremely Shorts Film Festival: Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Introductions: Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 A Catalogue: Tiny Park, Austin, TX
In Our/Their/Your Midst: Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Something Lost: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX & Co-lab’s N Space, Austin, TX
Under The Moon Tower: David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 One Night Cheap Hotel: Super 8 Motel, Austin, TX
2011 How to: A Video Anthology: Big Medium, Austin, TX
2010 Carmel Art & Film Festival: Sunset Center Auditorium, Carmel, CA
Monterey Bay Film Festival: World Theatre, Seaside, CA
2009 First Night Film Festival: Golden State Theatre, Monterey, CA
Carmel Short Cinema: Forest Theatre, Carmel, CA
Not Still Art: Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2021 Artist Talk, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York
2020 Visiting Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2016 Panelist (in conjunction with One/Sixth), de stijl - podium for art, Austin, TX
2015 Artist Talk, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Artist Talk (in conjunction with In Our/Their/Your Midst), Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Wollfarth, Izzy, Summer in Shanghai, Memphis Magazine, March
2022 Bravo, Leonardo, Kaleidoscopic No. 2: Janaye Brown, Kaleidoscopic, September
2021 Kuball, Cara, Gimme 5: On a Dimly Lit Path- Janaye Brown, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, March
2016 Zech, Brandon, Video: Janaye Brown at de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART, Glasstire, July
O’Connell, Chris, Lack and Presence, Alcalde, June
Agresta, Michael, De Stijl Displays the Identity-Conscious Work of UT-Austin’s Only Black MFAs, Texas Observer, June
Richardson, Jared, One/Sixth, Exhibition Catalog, May
2015 Seely, Thomas, Art Uncovered: Janaye Brown, Break Thru Radio, December
Votang, Thao, Janaye Brown: Featured Work, Conflict of Interest, December
Mufson, Beckett, Meet the Artists-in-Residence at BHQFU, NY, Vice, July
2014 Schwartz, Chip, Tiger Strikes Asteroid gets Down and Dirty, Knight Arts, September
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire, Things to do, Saturday, March 1, Austin American Statesman, February
Schwaiger, Seth Orion, Tiny Park: A Catalogue, Glasstire, January
2013 Keltner, Elena, In Our/Their/Your Midst', a collaborative effort between three UT grad students, The Daily Texan, October
Haber, John, Real Time, Haber Arts, July
Castro, Leslie Moody, Under the Moon Tower, Exhibition Catalog, June
Greenwood, Caitlin, Something Lost, Austin Chronicle, June