Janis Goodman

Born in New York City, Janis Goodman is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art at George Washington University. She maintains a studio in Mt. Rainier, MD, and Berkeley Springs, WV. Goodman has been the arts reviewer for WETA’s TV program Around Town since 2001. She co-curated the traveling photography exhibition Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography. Her writings on art have been published in Sculpture Magazine and numerous artist’s monographs. She has lectured at the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Smithsonian and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at colleges and artist residencies in the United States and abroad.

Goodman’s work has been shown nationally and internationally. In addition to her private studio practice she is a member of Workingman Collective, a group of artists doing site specific and community related projects. Her work is in many private and public collections and she has received The Bader Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts support grant. Goodman has an MFA from George Washington University with additional studies at the Corcoran, UCLA, Pratt Graphics and in Italy. She is cited in Who’s Who in American Art and other national publications.