About

Janet Yano is a San Francisco Bay Area artist with a studio in Sausalito’s historic ICB Building. Her work has been exhibited at Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Bedford Gallery, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and MarinMOCA. She studied photography at UC Berkeley Extension, and the symmetry, pattern, and simplicity of that practice continues to inform her current watercolor work.

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2025

Position/Disposition, Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Paper, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, online exhibition (Juror Rachel Gladfelter, Director Pace Paper)

2024

The Jealous Curator, Art Delivery Newsletter 8/24/24

Inaugural Northern California Open, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA

Strictly Abstract, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (Juror Anthony Meier, Anthony Meier Gallery)

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Artist Roundtable

2023

Contemporary Watercolors, The Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery, Tiburon, CA

Autumn’s Palette, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (Juror Catharine Clark of Catharine Clark Gallery)

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Artist Roundtable

The 2023 Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition, 1 of 54 pieces selected from 1,800 entries (Juror Anita Rogers of Anita Rogers Gallery)

Winter Open Studios and Marin Open Studios, Industrial Center Building, Sausalito, CA

2022

Artist Party, spoke during global online event hosted by Nicholas Wilton, Founder of Art2Life

Artists At Work, Industrial Center Building, Sausalito, CA

2017

Sweet n Low, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2007/2008

California Civil Liberties Public Education Grant

Education:

Certificate of Photography, UC Berkeley Extension, Berkeley, CA

1984 BA, Advertising, San Jose State University, CA