CV

Born in Aberfeldy, Scotland in 1964
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Represented by Ersatz, London



Education

Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Hunter College for the Arts, New York



Solo shows

  1. doggerfisher, Edinburgh
  2. Viewpoint Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle
  3. Viewpoint The Agency, London
  4. The Chocolate Box Paintings The Changing Room, Stirling*
  5. Janice McNab Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh *
    Janice McNab in Drum Castle. Part of Oak trees and Fountains, a site specific project in and around Drum Castle, Scotland
  6. Friends and Enemies Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
    The Greenock Factory Project Tramway Project Space, Glasgow*
  7. The Chemical Sensitivity Project Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
    Janice McNab Doggerfisher, Edinburgh*
    The Irvine Family Project Space, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  8. Anxiety The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh *
  9. Little Triggers The Assembly Gallery, Glasgow School of Art


(* denotes publication)



Group shows

  1. Missionary Position Ersatz @ National Gallery of Brent, London
    Paradolia, The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space in London
    Ersatz @ Trajector, part of Art Brussels
    Scottish Summer Exhibition, The Fleming Collection, London
  2. 250 years of Edinburgh College of Art, Centenary Exhibition*
    Voorbeeld, KABK (Royal Academy of the Arts) Den Haag, NL*
  3. My Painting.nu, Lokaal01, Breda, NL
    Finger Buffet, TheTraveling Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
  4. Project(or), with Centrifugal Projects, The Old Post Office, Rotterdam
    Rotterdam Art Fair with Grusenmeyer Art Gallery
  5. Frieze Art Fair, with doggerfisher
    100 Years of Edinburgh School of Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
    Brussels Art Fair, with Grusenmeyer Art Gallery
    Recent Acquisitions of Young Painting, The Essl Collection, Vienna
  6. Everyone comes to Holyrood, Edinburgh Arts Festival
    Mise en Scene Showroom Mama, Rotterdam
    Gastrophoria The Pump House Gallery, London
    Colourists to Contemporary: Still-life painting from the Collection The Fleming Collection, London
    Janice McNab and Karen Hanssen The Agency, London
    Frieze Art Fair, with doggerfisher
  7. Emerging Artists: Hotspots Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg/Vienna Austria*
    Expanded Painting Prague Biennale 2, Prague*
    Frieze art Fair, with Doggerfisher
  8. EAST International Norwich, curated by Neo Rauch/ Gerd Harry Lybke*
    De Werkelijkheid (Reality) De Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL
    Cool Brittania Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
    De Mariakapel, Hoorn, NL
    Cologne Art Fair, The Armoury, NY with Doggerfisher
  9. Now What? Dreaming of a better world in six parts BAK, Utrecht, NL*
    Sanctuary Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow*
    Hitch Glasgow Print Studio
    Liste, Basel, with Doggerfisher
  10. The Gap Show - Critical New British Art Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany*
    Tabu. Mavericks und Heisse Eisen Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland*
    Art in the Home Curated by the City Art Centre, Edinburgh*
    Artaid Bloomberg Space, London*
    Berlin art fair, with Doggerfisher and Volker Diehl Gallery
  11. Art in the Home Yamaguchi ICA, Japan*
    Le Mois de la Photo Galerie La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
    Here+now Scottish art 1990 – 2001. Dundee Contemporary Arts and The McManus Galleries, Dundee*
    Arco, Madrid. British Invitational with The Collective Gallery
  12. Kangaroo Het Grafisch Atelier, Utrecht, NL
    45th Salon de Mont Rouge, Scottish Pavilion. Galleries Mont Rouge, Paris and the ICA, Lisbon*
    John, I’m only dancing UH Galleries, St Albans and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
    Evolution isn’t over yet Lugar Comun, Lisbon and Dick Institute, Kilmarnock*
  13. Home grown Talent Perth Museum and Art Gallery
    Evolution isn’t over yet The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
    Sick Vitalists lntermedia, Glasgow
    Museum Magogo Project Space, Glasgow & Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
  14. The social life of stuff Fly Gallery, Glasgow
    Janice McNab Project space, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  15. Klick Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and First Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
    European Couples, and others Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
  16. Brain mail Cal-Arts, Los Angeles
    Sick building Transmission at The Globe Collective, Copenhagen
    Chicken in love Habitat, Edinburgh
    How deep is your love? Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh Museum
    Hunter College Sixth Floor Gallery, New York


Residencies

  1. Studio residency, Cove Park, Scotland
  2. Studio residency, Cove Park, Scotland
  3. Studio residency, Amsterdam. Funded by The Scottish Arts Council
  4. Studio residency, The Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, USA.
  5. Woman’s Aid, Glasgow


Awards

  1. Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam. Project subsidy towards research in Greenland
  2. The Hope Scott Trust artist award
    The British Council travel grant
    Edinburgh City Council artist award
  3. The Scottish Arts Council grant
    The Hope Scott Trust travel grant
    The Oppenheim-Downes Trust
  4. Glasgow School of Art, The Miller Prize
    Glasgow Marshall Trust purchase award
    The Cross Trust artist bursary
  5. Sir Richard Stapeley Educational Trust award
    The Hope Scott Trust Scholarship to Glasgow School of Art


Collections

The City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Perth Art Gallery and Museum, UBS Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow Marshall Trust, The Fleming Collection, London, The Essl Collection, Vienna, Edinburgh College of Art, and private collections.



Teaching

2011. Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, dissertation supervisor, Dept of Fine Art

2009 - present.   Royal Academy of the Arts (KABK), Den Haag, Fine Art tutor, part-time

2004 - present.   Leeds University Fine Art Dept. Regular visiting artist, BA/MFA

2009.   KABK (Royal Academy of the Arts) Den Haag. External examiner, Painting dept.

2006 - 2008.   Piet Zwart Institute for Post Graduate Studies and Research, Rotterdam, Tutor, with responsibility for dissertations.

2007.   Mr Miyaki Curatorial Training Programme, Showroom Mama, Rotterdam. Mentor.

2001 - 2005.   Glasgow School of Art, regular visiting artist, BA/MFA

2001.   Artlink, Edinburgh, project leader.

1999.   Edinburgh College of Art, Tutor, Painting Dept.

1997 - 1999.   Glasgow School of Art, painting tutor, Continuing Education dept.



Text editing

English language text editor for the following publications:

  1. Feminist legacies and Potentials, published by If I can’t dance and De Appel, Amsterdam 2011(Revolver Books)
  2. (Mis)reading Masquerades, published by If I can’t dance and Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven 2010 (Revolver Books)
  3. Becoming Dutch, the publication. Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven


Other activities

2009 - present.   Creative Scotland liaison officer for Amsterdam

2006 - 2009.   ArtisDenBosch Centre for Contemporary Arts, s'Hertogdenbosch, NL. Artistic advisor.

Exhibitions initiated and produced include:

2004.   OCD art magazine (editor Anne Fletcher), contributor



Bibliography

  1. Inspired, 10 Years of The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation*
    Voorbeeld, KABK, Den Haag, Interview Teun Verheij*
  2. True Romance, feature article, Wound Magazine edition 3, 2008
    Review, Rosie Lesso, Art Monthly May edition
    Artist profile, Ken Pratt, Wound magazine
    Pick of the week The Guardian, June 21
    Memories are made of this, review, Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman May 20
    Review, David Pollock, The List May 22
    Artist profile, Sarah Urwin Jones, The Glasgow Herald, May 18
  3. Review, Inge Braekman (H)ART magazine May 31
    Review, Sally O’Reilly, Map magazine Issue 9
    Picture in focus, Polly Bielecka, Scottish Art News, autumn edition
  4. Picturing the Self: Changing views of the Subject in Visual Culture, by Ken Goy. Published by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, LondonReview
    Prague Biennale, Flash Art, May/ June 2005
    Review, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, July 16
    Hard realities, no soft centres, Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, July 14
    Review, The Herald, July 25
    Real life delivered in empty wrappers, Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday
  5. Review De Werkelijkheid, Stefan Kuiper, De Groene Amsterdammer
    East International review, Daniela Johnson Flash Art, Oct. 2004
    Oils give a slick new take on the modern world, M. Jeffrey, The Herald, Jan 16
    What lies beneath the image, Colin Donald, The Sunday Times, Jan 18
    Flash-lit images of fiction, Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday, Jan 18
    Pick of the Week, Jessica Lack, The Guardian, Jan 19
    Allergic to the 21st century, Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, Jan 20
    In the hot seat, Evening News, Jan 24
    Tanks for the memories, Alan Chadwick, Metro, Jan 14
    Janice McNab, Kate Tregaskis, The List Magazine, 5 Feb
    The loneliness of the long distance flier, Catriona Black, Sunday Herald, Jan 25
    Review, de Mariakapel, Lida Bonnema NoordhollandsDagblad
  6. Fearless. Janice McNab’s Chair paintings, M Jeffrey, Matters magazine issue 17
    Bursting the bubble, M. Jeffrey, The Herald, Apr 15
  7. Artist dabbles with political dynamite, Elisabeth Mahoney, Sunday Times, Jan 6
    Out of the darkness, Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday, Jan 20
    Voices in the dark, Neil Cameron, The Scotsman, Jan 22
    Janice McNab, The Guardian Guide, Jan 26
    The Greenock Factory project, Susannah Thomson, The List, Jan 31
    In the picture, Lorraine Tinney, Greenock Telegraph, Jan 31
    De Vrouwen van Phase Two, Karel de Greef, Arbo en Milieu (NL) Feb
    Janice McNab, Rachel Withers, Artforum, Feb
  8. Portrait of a crusade, Michael Tierney and Moira Jeffrey, Herald Magazine, Jun 9
    Janice McNab, Louise Rimmer, Scotland on Sunday, Jun 17
    Janice McNab, Helen Monaghan, The List, June 21
    Pick of the week, Jessica Lack, The Guardian, Jun 30
    Don’t Panic, Neil Cameron, The Scotsman, July 10
    Janice McNab, Isabella Weir, The List, July 19
    De Verpletterende werkelijkheid, Chris Reinewald, Elegance, NL, Oct
    Janice McNab at Laurent Delaye, Sally o’Reilly, Time Out, 12 Dec
    Artists of the Collective Gallery, Will Bradley, NYARTS Magazine, vol 6, no 14
  9. 45eme Salon de Montrouge, Cite de Montrouge, catalogue
  10. Janice McNab, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, catalogue
    Four to watch, Elisabeth Mahoney, The Scotsman, Jan 18
    Anxiety, Will Silk, The List, Jan
    Evolution-lag, Moira Jeffrey, The List, Apr 1
    Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Rob Tufnell, Artland Magazine, vol 6, no 1
    The Social life of stuff, John Beagles, The List, Dec 5
    The Social life of stuff, Francis McKee, Untitled, Dec


Radio

  1. Radio Scotland The Arts Show, interview Feb 11
  2. Radio North Rhine-Westphalia, interview May 25
    Radio NDR Deutschland, review, May 26
  3. Radio Canada Le Guide Culturel, interview Sept 8
    Radio Scotland The Arts Show, interview July 19