Born in 1959, Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Education

1987 Yale University, College of Art, M.F.A. Painting
1985 New York Studio of Painting and Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2025

Mirrors, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

2023

New Work, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Recent Paintings, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

2019

Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint, Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery, Riverside, IL
Recent Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

2017

Janice Nowinski: Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
Elisa Jensen and Janice Nowinski, Valentine Gallery, Queens, NY

2015

Paintings by Janice Nowinski, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024

Galerie Sardine, Joe Bradley and Valentina Ackerman, Amagansett, New York
Self-Pleasure, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York NY
Open Dialogues: A Journey through Abstract and Figurative Art, Fahrenheit Madrid, Spain

2023

Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY
Come a Little Closer, DC Moore, New York, NY
Art Basel Miami Beach, with Harriet Korman and Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé

2022

Small Paintings, Venus over Manhattan, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Apple in the Dark, Harkawik Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Body in Question, Painting Center, New York, NY
Alone in This Together, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
25 Years, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
Kyle Staver & Janice Nowinski: An Exhibition of Paired Works, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY

2020

The Enabling Act, M. David & Co, Brooklyn, New York

2019

Women Out of Doors: Lois Dodd, Janice Nowinski, Kyle Staver, Joan Thorne and Jane Wilson, National
Arts Club, New York, NY (curated by Robert Yahner)
Dance with Me, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Afflatus, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2018

Figures, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC

2017

Elisa Jensen and Janice Nowinski, Valentine Gallery, Queens, New York

2016

On Painting, Kent Fine Arts, New York, NY
Painting in New York, Leigh Morse Fine Art, New York, NY

PUSSYPOWER, David Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

Paths that Cross, Cameron Street Gallery, Winchester, VA
Human Mysteries; BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Clintel Steed)

2015

Jardin, Studio, No. 4 Studio, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Invitational Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Publications

2025

Janice Nowinski, Thomas Erben Gallery, with essay by Charity Coleman

2023

Karen Wilkin, Janice Nowinski and Karen Wilkin - A Conversation, The Hopkins Review, April 15
Suchi Pritchard, Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, May

2022

Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review, "At the Galleries" Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben Gallery, Winter
Charity Coleman, Art Forum, Art Forum, PRINT January

2021

Katherine Bradford, The Artists' Artist, Best of 2021, Art Forum, PRINT December
Jennifer Samet, Beer with a Painter, Janice Nowinski, Hyperallergic
John Goodrich, Janice Nowinski: Recent Paintings, Painting Perceptions
John Yau, The Ever-Changing Dialogue Between Paint and Body, Hyperallergic
Sangram Majumdar, “Bad Boyfriends and Pink Bathers: A Conversation with Janice Nowinski”, Coats of Paint
Kyle Staver & Janice Nowinski, "What She Said", Wagner College, Newsroom

2020

Kyle Staver, “Kyle Staver on Janice Nowinski”, Painters on Painting
Anne Harris, “Anne Harris on Nowinski and Williams: Looking In and Out”, Painters on Painting

2019

Anne Harris. Riverside, Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint. IL: Riverside Arts Center

2018

John Mitchell, "Interview with Janice Nowinski"

2017

John Goodrich, "Figures Formed from the Primal Energies of Paint”, Hyperallergic
James Panero, "Gallery Chronicle”, New Criterion
Two

2016

Patrick Neal, "Figurative Painting That's Emphatically Human”, Hyperallergic
Karen Wilkin, "At The Galleries”, The Hudson Review

2013

John Goodrich, "John Lees: Painting/Janice Nowinski: Recent Paintings”, Oneviewat
Xico Greenwald, "A Studio Visit with Janice Nowinski”, Painting Perceptions
Daniel Maidman, "The Trustworthy Image: Janice Nowinski at John Davis Gallery”, Huffington Post

2012

Jennifer Samet, Necessary Arrangements, New York: Painting Center
Neil Plotkin, "Interview with Janice Nowinski”, Painting Perceptions
John Seed, "Janice Nowinski: Naughty Postcards and the Man by the River”, Huffington Post

Awards

2022 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Awardee
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2014 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Public collections

Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
Portland Community College, Oregon
Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA