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  • Janet Cooling
  • Full Time Faculty, Painting
  • OfficeA-501G
  • HoursOn sabbatical Fall 2008
  • Phone1209
  • Emailjcooling@mail.sdsu.edu
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Janet Cooling's Biography

After earning a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooling went on to exhibit at the Canis Gallery in the Women's Building in Los Angeles and at the Nancy Lurie Gallery in Chicago.

In 1984 Cooling's work was included in the Venice Biennale, selected by Marcia Tucker who was then the head of The New Museum of Contemporary Art. The drawings and paintings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions throughout the U.S., as well as in dozens of group exhibitions including some of the following:' Extended Sensibilities, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Dan Cameron; 'Young Americans, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, curated by William Olander;'Janet Cooling Retrospective, Paintings and Drawings, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; 'Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; 'Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY; 'A Good Impression: A Century of Printmaking in San Diego', San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; 'Picturing The Modern Amazon', The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. The work has been written about extensively for over 25 years.