About
Janet Yano is a San Francisco Bay Area artist with a studio in Sausalito’s historic ICB Building. After a long career in publishing, working at Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Martha Stewart Living, she is now dedicated to her studio practice. 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 continue to inform her current watercolor work.
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EXHIBITIONS
2025
Position/Disposition, Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Paper, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, online exhibition (Juror Rachel Gladfelter, Director Pace Paper)
2024
Inaugural Northern California Open, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA (Jurors Facundo Arganaraz, Mariah Nielson, Lawrence Rinder, Mari Robles, and Donna Seager)
Strictly Abstract, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (Juror Anthony Meier, Anthony Meier Gallery)
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)
Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition, (Juror Anita Rogers of Anita Rogers Gallery)
2017
Sweet n Low, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA (Juror Evan Pricco, Editor of Juxtapoz Magazine and Susannah Kelly and Neil Perry of Antler Gallery)
ARTIST TALKS and PRESS
2024 - O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Artist Roundtable for Strictly Abstract
2024 - The Jealous Curator, Art Delivery Newsletter profile 8/24/24
2023 - O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Artist Roundtable for Autumn’s Palette
2022 - Artist Talk at online global event hosted by Nicholas Wilton, Founder of Art2Life
OPEN STUDIOS
2024 - Winter Open Studios
2023 - Marin Open Studios and Winter Open Studios
2022 - Artists At Work, Industrial Center Building, Sausalito, CA
GRANTS
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