About the Artist
Jan Rozene
-Art engaged with nature-
JAN ROZENE
A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jan Rozene lived in the Hudson Valley for 30 years. In 2026, she moved to Manhattan. She draws on the subway and in museums and paints plein air in the country and city. A student of Frank Mason at the Art Students League and in Stowe Vermont in the 1980s, she also received masters degrees from Columbia University and Hunter College in library science and art history. She worked as an art librarian at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City from 1981 to 2020.
Jan enjoys sketching with the Central Park Meetup and the Urban Sketchers NYC. Many of her recent pieces have been painted with watercolors and white gouache on site. In the studio, she enjoys egg tempera and oils.
Jan hopes to have the viewer share the emotional high she achieves when lost in the deep concentration of painting. Like a runner's high, it is a function of her intense meditation and engagement with nature.
Born Bridgeport, CT 1952
Lives New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITION
1985 Bennet Art Gallery, Bridgeport, CT Sept. 27-Oct. 25e
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Shames JCC, Scenes of the Hudson Valley, Dec. 2025-Mar. 2026
2025 Art Students League Annual Holiday Art Sale
2025 Shames JCC, RiverArts Studio Tour Preview Exhibition, Nov. 2-Dec.2
2025 RiverArts Studio Tour, Tarrytown, NY Nov. 8-9
2025 Shames JCC, Community Art Exhibition, April 27-Sept., 2025
2025 Art Students League student salon, March 3-8, 2025
2024 The Annual Art Sale, Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Dec. 5-22
2024 RiverArts Studio Tour, Tarrytown, NY, Nov. 2-3
2024 Shames JCC RiverArts Studio Tour Preview Exhibition, Oct. 27-Dec.1
2024 Art Students League, New York, "Student Salon", "3 Shells", March 4-9
2023 Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Fell's Point, Baltimore, MD "Three-Ring Holiday Circus", Cigar Box Art, Dec. 9-17.
2023 Art Students League, Annual Art Sale, Dec. 7-23.
2023 Shames JCC RiverArts Studio Tour Preview Exhibition Oct. 22-Nov. 27, 2023
2022 “Manhattan Below 14th St”, NYC Urban Sketchers Exhibition, New Amsterdam Library, NY, Oct.
2020 Nature & Its Glory, Laura Vernon Russell & Janette Rozene, Bismark Wilson Gallery, Fell’s Point, Baltimore Dec. 8, 2020-Jan. 5, 2021
2019 Kennedy Brothers Balcony Gallery, Vergennes, VT, July-August 2019
2018 “Expressions of Civility”, Fashion Institute of Technology, Faculty, staff and student exhibition, Feldman Center, Gallery, Nov. 19, 2018-Oct. 2019
2017 Fashion Institute of Technology, Marvin Feldman Center Gallery, “Monochrome” FIT Faculty Exhibition, Nov. 2016-Oct. 2017
2014 Fashion Institute of Technology, Feldman Center, “Pairings/Collaborations”, Nov. 25, 2013-Oct. 23, 2014
2012 Fashion Institute of Technology, “Faculty Exhibition”, Feldman Center
2012 Breadworks Gallery, Boulder, CO Feb. 17-March 15
2012 Dobbs Ferry Women’s Club “2012 Beaux Art Show”, May 18-May 20
2011 “New Work”, Fashion Institute of Technology, Faculty and staff exhibition, Nov. 29, 2011-Nov. 2012
2004 Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY “Art Libraries Society of North America Members Exhibition” April 15-July 15
2000 Dobbs Ferry Woman’s Club, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Sept. 22-24
1997 Third Annual Dobbs Ferry Artwalk, Dobbs Ferry, NY, May 31-June 9
1996 Second Annual Dobbs Ferry Artwalk, Dobbs Ferry, NY, May 4
1996 G.C. Lucas Gallery, “Following the Light, the Artists and Their Teacher”, Indianapolis, Indiana, Frank Mason and alumni, The Art Students League of New York, April 27-May 1
1996 The Woman’s Club of Hastings-on-Hudson “Annual Art Show”, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, March 9-14
1995 First Annual Dobbs Ferry Artwalk, Dobbs Ferry, NY May 6
1995 Fashion Institute of Technology, Library, “Janette Rozene: Recent works” Nov.-Dec.
1993 Fashion Institute of Technology Library, “Place” Sept. 23-Dec. 20
1993 Irvington Outdoor Art Show, Irvington, NY, Oct. 2
1992 Michael Ingbar Gallery, NY, “New York Icons”, Oct. 22-Dec. 19
1991 Michael Ingbar Gallery “New York Architecture Twentieth Century Classical Paintings” Jan 12-Feb. 16
1990 Ward-Nasse Gallery, NY, “Summer in the City: New York Citiscapes” July 11-29
1990 Central Park South Art Exhibit, NY, Sept. 22-23
1988-9 Washington Square Art Exhibit, NY, Sept.
1988 Amos Eno Gallery, “3rd National Juried Exhibition Small Wall Works, July 9-28
1988 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NY, “Twelfth Annual Small Works”, Feb. 6-Mar. 11
1987 4th Annual “Art on the Drive”, Riverside Drive, NY, June 7
1986 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, “Tenth Annual Small Works”, Feb. 1-28
1986 “Audubon Artists 44th Annual Exhibition”, National Arts Club, NY, March 23-April 22
1985 Fashion Institute of Technology, Library, NY, “3 Women Artists” Feb. 4-22
1984 Salmagundi Club, NY, “7th Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, May 7-18
EDUCATION
1983 M.A. Art History Hunter College, NY, NY
1976 M.S. Library Science Columbia University, NY, NY
1974 B.A. Art History Boston University, Boston, MA
1972-74 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1977-1990, 2022- Art Students League, NY, NY
1978, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990 Frank Mason Landscape Painting Workshops, Stowe, VT
HONORS
2026 Art Students League Merit Scholarship
1984 Certificate of Merit, Salmagundi Club
1981-2, 1984-5 Art Students League Board of Control Scholarships
1970 Merit Scholarship Letter of Commendation
1975 Beta Phi Mu, International Library Honor Fraternity
1975 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Intern Competition Winner
EMPLOYMENT
Fashion Institute of Technology Professor-Librarian 1981-2020
Whitney Museum of American Art Library Cataloger part time 1981-1987
Museum of Modern Art Reference Librarian 1978-1981
Newark Public Library Art and Music Reference Librarian 1976-1978
Lowenstein Design Research Library Librarian 1975-76
National Gallery of Art Library Intern summer 1975
Recent Works
