Janice Kerbel
Janice works with a range of material including print, type, audio recording and, more recently, light.
Staff details
Janice Kerbel works with a range of material – including print, type, audio recording and, more recently, light – to explore notions of visibility through the inhabitation of forms that both promise and withhold the realisation of subsequent states. Much of her work employs existing languages from a wide range of disciplines, re-imagining them in isolation from their expected use. It is in this way that her practice tries to imagine and develop new forms.
Professional Projects
In the past six years, Janice's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Tate Britain and Chisenhale Gallery in London, as well as internationally in Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, and Reykjavik. Her work has also been a part of group exhibitions at the Burcharest Biennial in Romania and ‘Biennale de Montreal’ in Montreal, Quebec.
She has received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists as well as grants from Arts Partners in Creative Development and Canada Council for the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in Art Monthly, frieze, Art in America, Artforum, and Canadian Art Review.
Publications and research outputs
Show/Exhibition
- New Releases, Old Friends Kerbel, Janice. 2025. New Releases, Old Friends. In: "New Releases, Old Friends", STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore, 22 March - 4 May 2025.
- Janice Kerbel Kerbel, Janice. 2018. Janice Kerbel. In: "Janice Kerbel", greengrassi, London, United Kingdom, 27 September – 3 November 2018.
- 'Beautiful World. Where are you?', Liverpool Biennial 2018 Kerbel, Janice. 2018. 'Beautiful World. Where are you?', Liverpool Biennial 2018. In: "Beautiful World Where are you?, 2018 Liverpool Biennial", Liverpool, United Kingdom, 14 July - 28 October 2018.
Performance
- Fight! Kerbel, Janice. 2022. Fight!. In: "Speech! Fight!", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2022 - 2024.
- Speech! Kerbel, Janice. 2022. Speech!. In: "Speech!", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2022 - 2024.
- Sink: Routine for 24 Women Kerbel, Janice. 2018. Sink: Routine for 24 Women. In: "Sink", Western Baths, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3 August 2018.
Artist's Book
- Joke Kerbel, Janice. 2025. Joke.
Art Object
- Ride Of Life Kerbel, Janice. 2024. Ride Of Life.
- Score Kerbel, Janice. 2016. Score.
- Cue Kerbel, Janice. 2012. Cue.
Book
- Live: Collected scripts Kerbel, Janice. 2018. Live: Collected scripts. London UK: Occasional Papers / The Polygon Gallery / Badischer Kunsterein / University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-9954730-0-3
Printed Ephemera
- DOUG Nine songs for six voices Kerbel, Janice. 2014. DOUG Nine songs for six voices.
Professional Activity
- Honorary Doctorate Award Kerbel, Janice. 2016. Honorary Doctorate Award.