Janet Sternburg

Janet Sternburg is a fine art photographer, writer of literary books, maker of theater and film, and educator. Her solo shows include the Seoul Institute of the Arts, Ansan, Korea; Contrasto Galleria, Milan; USC Fisher Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles; and a two-year traveling exhibition, Berlin to Munich. Her photo publications include Aperture and a cover/portfolio feature in Art Journal, as well as three monographs from Distanz Verlag: Overspilling World: The Photographs of Janet Sternburg (2016), with essays by Wim Wenders and Catherine Opie; I’ve Been Walking: Los Angeles Photographs (2021), epilogue in conversation with Jane Bennett; and Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back (2023), in collaboration with José Alberto Romero Romano. Among her literary publications are The Writer On Her Work (1992), as editor; Phantom Limb (2002); White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine (2015); and Optic Nerve: Photopoems (2005). She is the recipient of the REDCAT Award (2016),“given to “individuals who exemplify the creativity and talent that define and lead the evolution of contemporary culture.”