Joel Janowitz

Joel Janowitz joined the Art Department at Wellesley College in 2003 where he teaches introductory drawing and painting and advanced drawing. Previously, Janowitz has taught at Princeton University, Brown University, Clark University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and most recently, the University of Colorado in Boulder. Janowitz received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his M.F.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Janowitz is a painter who has exhibited extensively, having had more than 20 solo exhibitions of his work. In 2005 he had a one-person exhibition of his paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, and an exhibition of recent lithographs at the High Point Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. In 2003, Janowitz was included in “Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper Since 1960” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and “Selections from the Permanent Collection,” at the Rose Museum, Brandeis University. In 2002 he presented a one-person exhibition of his paintings, watercolors, and prints at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA.

Janowitz has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005 he received a Faculty Award from Wellesley College.

Among the museums that have collected Janowitz’s work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard. His work also can be found in the collection of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College.

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Profile last updated: 9/05