JAN KERN | ARTIST
HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS SHOWS
Kern began exhibiting in 1980 when her two of her collages were selected for
the Corcoran Gallery’s Twenty-Second Area Exhibition, “Works on Paper”, juried
by William Lieberman, Chairman, Department of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kern’s work has been in more than thirty-five exhibitions in the U.S. and Canada; many of them juried by curators from major art institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Phillips Collection, Renwick Gallery, and National Museum of Women in the Arts. In addition to the honor of being selected, Kern won awards in several juried shows.
Kern has had three solo exhibitions. Her work is in private collections throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area and in fourteen states.
Solo Exhibitions
1997
“Celebrating Color, Line, and Rhythm: Large Pieced Paintings and Other Work”
Artists’ Museum, Washington, D.C.
1984
“Small Collages”
Gallery 4, Alexandria, Virginia
Group Exhibitions
2006
"Collage: The Joy Factor"
Corner Store Arts, Washington, D.C. Invitational
2002
"Group Exhibition"
Gallery 325, Washington, D.C
2001
“May Invitational Group Show”
Artists’ Museum, Washington, D.C.
2000
“Artists Equity Annual Awards Exhibition”
Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
“Murmullos de Otono”
Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Juan Romero de Terreros,
Minister for Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Spain
1999
“Summer Invitational Group Show”
Artists’ Museum, Washington, D.C.
1992
“Artists Equity Sixth Annual Awards Exhibition"
Arts Alive Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Juried by artist Patricia Forrester
1991
“Artists Equity Fifth Annual Awards Exhibition”
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Willem de Looper, Chief Curator
Phillips Collection
“Three Acts: Painting, Sculpting, Drawing”
Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, Maryland
Juried by Angela Adams, curator
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1990
“Prints and Drawings: Tri-State Juried Exhibition"
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Juried by Deborah Wye, Associate Curator
Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Artery ’90: SixthAnnual
Multi-Media Juried Exhibition"
Strathmore Hall Arts Center
Rockville,Maryland
Juried by Marilyn Zeitlin, Executive Director
Washington Project for the Arts
1989
“Fourth Annual International Exhibition”
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Juried by an international panel
"Artists Equity Fourth Annual Awards Exhibition”
Washington, D.C.
Juried by Helaine Posner, Chief Curator
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1988
“Third Annual International Exhibition”
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Juried by international panel
Honorable Mention Award
“International Miniature Show”
Arts Club, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Willem de Looper, Chief Curator
Phillips Collection
Honorable Mention Award
“Seven by Seven”
Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Invitational
“Artists Equity Annual Exhibition”
Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Washington D.C.
Juried by David Tannous, art critic and curator
“Open Exhibition”
Council of the Arts, Fairfax, Virginia
Juried by Jack Cowart, Curator for
20th Century Art, National Gallery of Art
“Work on Paper”
Maryland Federation of Art
Juried by Michael Monroe, Curator,
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1987
“Seven by Seven”
Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Invitational
”Abstractions”
New Art Center, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Zimbabwe artist Dierdre Saunder
“Second Annual International Exhibition”
Juried by an international panel
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Collage”
New Art Center, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Sylvia Ripley, Addison-Ripley Gallery
“Emerging Artists of Distinction”
New Art Center, Washington, D.C.
"Exhibition of Washington Area Artists"
National Institutes of Health Gallery
Bethesda, Maryland
1986
“First Annual International Exhibition”
Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Juried by an international panel
"The Aesthetic Text”
New Art Center, Washington, D.C.
Juried by J.W. Mahoney, artist and writer
"Ambiguous Relationships”
Strathmore Hall Art Center, Rockville, Maryland
Juried by David Tannous, art critic and curator
Honorable Mention Award
“Seven by Seven”
Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Invitational
"Membership Exhibition”
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Juried by Willem de Looper. Chief Curator
Phillips Collection
“In Celebration of Washington Artists”
Juried exhibition sponsored by the Progressive Club
Gallery Row, Washington D.C.
“Photostatic”
Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C
Invitational
1984
“Small Works”
Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Juried by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator
National Museum of American Art
1980
“Works on Paper: Twenty-Second Area Exhibition"
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Juried by William Lieberman, Chairman
Department of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1975
“Spring Exhibition Corcoran School of Art”
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Award Second Place, Printmaking
1973
“Spring Exhibition Corcoran School of Art”
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
First-place Departmental Award for Design
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