Artists Registry

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Interchurch Center, New York, NY
2010 Bintou's Salon, Kiva, New York, NY
2008 Sundiata, the Loft Theatre. Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Il Trapezio Gallery, Nutley NJ
2006-7 Have We Met? A Portrait of Mali; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2003 Zig-Zag, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
2002 Can We Heal?, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
1998 Statements in Steel, Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AK
1997 Most Of Us Are Immigrants (outdoor sculpture), Sara Roosevelt Park, New York, NY
1996 Sticks & Stones, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Acme Art Company, Columbus OH
1993 Sticks & Stones, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Portraits of the Spirit, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Women's Studio Workshop; Rosendale, NY
1984 Elmira College, Elmira, NY
Jewish Community Center; Stamford, CT
1983 Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
1980 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1978 Stamford Museum, Stamford CT

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2014 Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, The Museum of Art and Design, NY
2012 Activist New York, The Museum of the City of New York, NY
2010-11 Global Africa Project, The Museum of Art and Design, New York
2008 Beyond Reading: Books As Art, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA
2007 Pencil to Public II, Liberty Museum, Liberty, NY
2007 Women of Steel, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA
2006 Telling the Story: Artists’ Books, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
2000 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1996 Sticks & Stones, Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C.
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY
1991 Visions of Life, Islip Museum, Islip, NY curated by Marcia Yerman
1989 Women Facing AIDS, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1978 Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1976 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

2006 American Embassy, Bamako, Mali, Negelan
2004 Ossining, NY, private collection, Garden Gate,
2003 Gratz High School, Philadelphia, PA, Book of Hopes and Fears,
2002 Segou, Mali, public sculpture in collaboration with Assn. Segou Laben
2000 Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, Can We Heal?
1999 Islip Museum, East Islip, NY, Most Of Us Are Immigrants,

GRANTS & AWARDS

2012 Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
2009 Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, Balla Fasseke Kouyate Conservatory of Arts, Bamako, Mali
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Ford Foundation, Three Continents Textile Collaboration
2003 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
1994-95 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Mali, West Africa
1989 United Nations Committee Against Apartheid, Grant, South African Mail: Messages From Inside

PUBLIC ART EXHIBITIONS

2012 East River Park, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Farm Project 2011, Garrison, NY
2009 Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2006 Conversations: Sculpture in the Garden, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY
2005 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY
2004 Newburgh Sculpture Project, Newburgh, NY
2003 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibit, Woodstock, NY
2002 The Art Lot, solo exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Art Forms, Woodstock, NY
2001 PS 122 Gallery, solo exhibition, outdoor sculpture, New York, NY
2000 Ithaca Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Ithaca, NY
1982 Wilton, Connecticut
Bethesda, MD
1981 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

CURATORIAL & COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS

2011 Institute for Wishful Thinking, http://theiwt.com/proposals/artist-janet-goldner/
Search Committee, Sculptor, Antioch College, Yellow Springs Ohio
2009/10/11 Sculpture Peer Review Committee, Fulbright, Council for International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington, DC
2004 Consultant, Assn of Mali Women Artists, Bamako, Mali
2000 Unbound: Reshaping Artist’s Books, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC, co-
curator with Nancy Azara
Art-o-mat - Low cost multiples sold in converted cigarette machines located in museums & art
institutions throughout the US

VIDEOS

2012 Senufo Women's Music, Molasso, Mali, Camera, Editor
Senufo Hunter's Funeral, Molasso, Mali, Camera, Editor
Mali Mode, Fashion Show, Bamako, Mali, Editor
2011 Gwo Natan, Community Radio in Mali, Producer, Director, Camera, Editor
2009 Kenedouga, Mali, Editor with Kandioura Coulibaly
2007 PsalmSong, video of the installation of Carol Hamoy, Camera,,Editor
2006 Have We Met? A Portrait of Mali, 15 minute video for sculptural installation, Director,
Producer, Camera
2005 Unity: 3 Countries Textile Project- Mali, Nigeria, Indonesia, funded by Ford Foundation,
Producer, Director, Camera
1999 Mali: An Invitation to Travel, 18 minute documentary , w/ CNPC, Bamako, Mali, Producer
1998 Welcome to America, women's stories about immigration, with Carol Hamoy, New York City,
Camera person
1994 The Last Mile-- a documentary about the historic South African elections in April '94.
Co-producer, Co-director, Camera

RESIDENCIES

2012 First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
2011 Common Threads, Alys Stephens Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham
2010 New Jersey City University. Jersey City, New Jersey, Visiting Artist
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2009 Threads of Change, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Change in the Making: Community & Family in Mali and Philadelphia
2004 Tucson Arts Brigade, Tucson, AZ
2003 Memory Mine, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap. Ga
Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, Can We Heal?
1998 Webster University, St Louis, MO
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
1982 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
1981 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
Lasting Legacy, LeRoy Neiman Center, New York, NY

2012 Feminism and the Artist's Book, Central Booking Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art in Flux, Harlem, New York, NY
The Ballot Box, Peekskill, NY
Small Works BWAC, Teddy's, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2011 Interstice & Emphasis, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Curated by Carl Hazelwood
Reader's 11, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2010 I'll Cut ThrU, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
I'll Cut ThrU, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Reader's 10, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Last Book, Zentral Bibliothek of Zurich, curated by Luis Camnitzer

2009 Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
Ka Kelen Kelen Wili ( May We Wake Up One by One), Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

2008 The Last Book, National Library of Spain, curated by Luis Camnitzer
Exchange Rate:2008 Conventions and Attitudes, Temple Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Conventions and Attitudes - Habeas Lounge, City University New York, New York, NY
Migrate, Gallery 128, New York, NY
Sustaining Vision: A Tribute to Arlene Raven, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, NY
Envisioning Maps, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

2007 The Open Book, Om’s Gallery, Fort Lee, NJ
Pencil to Public, Delaware Valley Artists Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
Singular Objects, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY
Van-Go, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Common Ground, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY

2006 Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Mutilated/Cultivated Environments, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Library, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
The Open Book, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2004 Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Loft Pioneer Show, Puffin Room, New York, NY

2003 A Language of Pattern, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Larger Than Life, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Van-Go, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2002 The Low End Theory, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Generations, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Center for Visual Arts & Culture, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Memory and Metaphor, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

2001 Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
Not for Publication: In the Spirit of the Book, Hillwood Gallery, CW Post, Brookville, NY
5th Annual Loft Pioneer Show, Puffin Room, New York, NY
Women's Works, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
AIR Gallery, New York, NY
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Unbound: Reshaping Artist’s Books, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC

PUBLISHED WRITING
Women's Voices for Change blog, Finding Home: West Africa, ongoing installments about my long
connection to West Africa, 2012
Contemporary African Fashion (book) Chapter 7; Interview with Kandioura Couilbaly, Indiana
University Press, 2010
Poetics of Cloth, Catalogue essay, Group Bogolan Kasobane, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 2008
African Arts magazine, Photo essay, The Women of Kalabougou (Mali), Spring 2007
Three Countries Textile Collaboration- Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, Catalogue essay, Ford Foundation,
2005
African Arts magazine, Book Review, Art in South Africa: the Future Present by Sue Williamson and
Jamal Ashraf, and Women and Art in South Africa, by Marion Arnold, Summer, 2002
Beadwork Magazine, Article, The Language of Beads: Kandioura Coulibaly;, April 2002
Artists On The Home Front, Catalogue essay, Goddard Riverside Community Center, NYC, 1991
South African Mail: Messages From Inside, Catalogue essay, Soho20 Gallery, NYC, 1990

GUEST LECTURER/PANELIST

2013 Africa Section, Library of Congress, UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mali, Washington DC
Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY; Malian Art & Politics: A Symposium, Lecture & moderator
2012 Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, Zimbabwe, Artist's Lecture & Collaborations in Africa
National Gallery, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Artist's Lecture & Collaborations in Africa
National Gallery School, Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, Artist's Lecture & Collaborations in Africa
First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe, Artist's Lecture & Collaborations in Africa
Interchurch Center, Artist's Tour of the Exhibition
2011 Transcultural Collaborations: Collapsing Distance, Transforming Home,
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
Transcultural Exchange Conference, Boston MA
Arts Council of the African Studies Assn (ACASA), Artistry of African/Diaspora Blacksmiths panel, UCLA
2010 Universite d'ete de Bamako, Global Collaborations in the Arts: Thoughts about Cultural Diplomacy, Bamako, Mali
Symposium Malien sur les Sciences Appliquées (MSAS), Chair, In the Shadow of the Empires: Protecting West Africa's Cultural Heritage, Bamako, Mali
Brown University, Providence, RI, Arts in the One World Conference
2009 Center for African Studies, Rutgers Univ, NJ; i n ice, thank you, merci The art of the Groupe Bogolan Kasobane
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2008 The Archaeology Society of Staten Island, NY, World Heritage Sites in Mali
University of Missouri/Kansas City, Global Conversations in the Arts
MANSA conference, Lisbon, Portugal i ni ce, thank you, merci: An Ongoing Dialogue about Art, Life & Building Bridges
College Art Assn, Art History Open Session, Dallas, TX; Groupe Bogolan Kasobane, moderated by Rosalind Walker
2006 Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, Malian Women Artists Project.
2004 College Art Assn, Panelist, Seattle, WA , Study Abroad: Academic Arcadia OR Just Another Grand Tour?
2003 College Art Assn, Co-Chair, Search/Research, New York, NY
Brown University, Intersections, Mud cloth symposia, Providence, RI
2002 Museum for African Art, Lecture, New York, NY; The Group Bogolan Kasobane,
African Studies Association, video Panelist, Nashville, TNMali: An Invitation to Travel
2000 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Art & Activism, guest speaker for Arlene Raven’s class
1984 Elmira College, Elmira, NY

PUBLICATIONS: ARTWORKS FEATURED IN ARTICLES & BOOKS

CATALOGUES
Global African Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York 2010
Have We Met? A Portrait of Mali; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2006
Text and Identity, SUNY- Stony Brook, NY, 1997
Janet Goldner: Sticks & Stones, Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C. 1996
A Woman's Place, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, 1996
In Three Dimensions, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY, curated by Charlotte Rubenstein, 1995
Proposta N.2:Il Cibo Nell'Arte, Circolo Culturali Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy,1991
Visions of Life; essay by Eleanor Heartney, 1990
10 Artists From New York; (catalogue); essay by Judy Collischan, 1989
On View, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, February 24 - April 16, 1989
AIM, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, 1987
Women's Sensibilities, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1986

WEBSITES & BLOGS

Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth Sackler for Feminist Art Base:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/janet_go…
Museum of Arts and Design, Global Africa Project
http://www.madblog.org/2010/06/i-nice-thank-you-merci-an-ongoing-dialog…
Seattle Post-Intelligencer : Book Patrol Blog, October, 2007
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/bookpatrol/archives/119965.asp?from=…
Political Artwork Blogspot, http://www.politicalartwork.blogspot.com/, Featured October, 2006

JOURNALS & MAGAZINES

Madison, Christine, Le Griot: American Embassy Newsletter, Bamako, Mali, December 12, 2002
From the Borderline to the Colorline, Nat'l Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, UN Anti-Racism Conf, 2001
Connect, Arts International , New York, Inaugural Issue, Fall 2000
Public Art Review, Recent Projects, Spring/Summer, 1998
Sculpture Magazine, Jane Ingram Allen, September, 1997
Sculpture Magazine, Commissions, Blankstein, Amy, December, 1997
Manual 1994-1995, Art in General, NYC
Third Text, n16/17, Autumn/Winter 1991 Richards, Colin, About Face: Aspects of Art History and Identity in South African Visual Culture
Heresies, Volume 2,#4, New York 1980

REVIEWS

NewsDay, Zimbabwe, First Floor Gallery engages New York artist, November 3, 2012 http://www.newsday.co.zw/2012/11/03/first-floor-gallery-engages-new-yor…
The Zimbabwean, US artist grooms local talent, November 6, 2012
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/entertainment/art-and-literature/62002/u…
The Villager, Goldner’s ideas conceived in Mali, born on Warren Street,
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_342/goldnersideas.html, November 18, 2009
Downtown Express, Wielding influence through sculptures of steel, August 4, 2006 http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_169/wieldinginfluence.html
Adama Coulibaly, Les Echos, Bamako, Mali, September 24, 2002
Roberta Smith, New York Times, Friday, August 8, 1997
Jim Pathe, Newark Star Ledger, March 7, 1997
Vivian Raynor, New York Times, Sunday, October 20, 1996
Kay Koeninger, Columbus Dispatch, April 14, 1996
Vivian Raynor, New York Times, February 26, 1995
Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, December 11, 1994
New York Newsday, May 11,1993
Helen Harrison, New York Times, February 17, 1991
Arlene Raven, Village Voice, NYC, February 20, 1990
Nels Nelson, Philadelphia Daily News, March 23, 1990
South, Capetown South Africa, January 18, 1990
Diane A. Davis, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, September 8, 1990
"Linen Fever", Women's Wear Daily, June 21,1984
New York Times, December 11, 1977

AFFILIATIONS

Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum
Center for Book Arts
College Art Association
International Sculpture Center
Women's Caucus for Art
American Association of Museums
International Documentary Association
Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)
MaliWatch
MANSA
Soho 20 Artists Inc., New York City, 1987 to 1995
Women's Action Coalition (WAC), 1992 to 1993

EDUCATION

M.A., New York University, in sculpture
additional courses: Whitney Independent Study Program;
Institute of Fine Arts, NYC
internships: Nancy Graves, Mac Adams
B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, in art

Writing Workshop for Artists with Arlene Raven, New York, NY
Forum '85, UN Women's Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
Visual Artists Exchange, NY Feminist Art Institute, New York, NY
Experiment in International Living, Semester Program to Ghana
Year-long independent investigation of arts in West Africa
Penland School, Penland, NC. Fibers
Asgard School, Hurup Thy, Denmark. Fibers