Robert Janz (December 25, 1932 - October 26, 2021), Belfast, Northern Ireland) was a New York-based visual artist whose work often dealt with ephemeral phenomena.[1][2] His work has been described as having a "nomadic aspect".[3]

Robert Janz
Jan Berdyszak (left) and Robert Janz (right) in 1988
Born	(1932-12-25)December 25, 1932 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	October 26, 2021(2021-10-26) (aged 88) Tribeca, New York City, New York

Early life and education

Janz was vorn in Belfast, North Ireland in 1932. He was educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he graduated with a MFA degree. Janz taught in London, Berlin and Spain.[4]

Work

Janz exhibited his work internationally in Barcelona, Belfast, Los Angeles, Chicago, Lyon, Dublin, among other locations.[4] His work was included in three exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[5] as well as White Columns, the Irish Museum of Modern Art[6] among other venues.[7]

Later in his life, Janz focused on producing graffiti-type works in lower Manhattan. He would reconfigure paper advertisement posters, transforming them into images of birds, flowers, faces and landscapes; he also added painted imagery and wrote on billboards in the form of wordplay poetry.[8]

Legacy

In 2020 a documentary film was made on him, titled Janz: In the Moment.[9]

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum,[10] the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art,[11] the Williams College Museum of Art,[12] among other venues.

References

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