Jana Vizjak

Jana Vizjak was born in 1956 in Ljubljana, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, completing her post-graduate studies in painting under Prof Janez Bernik in 1982. Since then she has been a free-lance artist.

She is a painter and graphic artist, and she interprets her work in theoretical contexts. Everything in her paintings is subordinated to colour and light, which “complement each other in modelling and modules”. Consequently, she perceives a painting as colour and light.

Between 1991 and 1996 Jana Vizjak was a student and guest lecturer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Prof Gotthard Graubner. She has held solo exhibitions in Slovenia, London, Carinthia and Düsseldorf, and has participated in important international group exhibitions. Among other awards, she has received the student Prešeren Award, the Jury Award of the International Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Grand Prix of the Alpe-Jadran exhibition at the Ljubljana International Graphic Art Centre and the Lorenzo de Medici Award at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence. In 2005 she was acknowledged for significant works of art from the senate of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Ljubljana.In 2006 she was acknowle...

Academy of Art and Design, Ljubljana
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1980 Koncertni atelje DSS, Ljubljana
1981 Savinov salon, Žalec
1984 Likovni salon, Celje
1984 Galerija Meduza, Koper
1984 Galerija Labirint, Ljubljana
1985 Jugoslovanski kulturni center, London, England
1986 Mala galerija, Ljubljana
1986 Likovni salon tribine mladih, Novi Sad, Srbia
1986 Galerija TKG, Trst/Trieste, Italy
1988 Galerija ARS, Ljubljana
1988 Galerija ZDSLU, Ljubljana
1989 Umetnostna galerija, Maribor
1989 Likovni salon Celje, Celje
1991 Galerija Šikoronja/Galerie Šikoronja Rosegg, Austria
1993 Klub Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
1995 Studio Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 Razstavni salon Rotovž (Umetnostna galerija) Maribor
1999 Galerija Šikoronja Rožek/Galerie Šikoronja Rosegg, Austria
2000 Svetovni slovenski kongres, Ljubljana
2001 Galerija sodobne umetnosti, Celje
2001 Mestna galerija Ljubljana
2002 Gornjesavski muzej Jesenice
2004 Galerija Šikoronja (z Gustav Januš) / Galerie Šikoronja Rosegg, Austria
2005 Galerija sodobne umetnosti Celje, Selfportraits
2005 Klub Nove revije, Ljubljana
2007 Cerkev Sv. Jožef Ljubljana, Razstava o Svetem pismu
2007 Galerija...