Janet Jacobs has deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has a rich history. She received a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from the California College of the Arts and an MFA in Sculpture and Painting from Mills College.
This year she’s having her first solo museum show at The Holter Museum of Art. Janet is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco and was shown at the 2025 San Francisco Art Fair. She’ll be having an exhibition at Dominican University of California in the summer of 2028. Her works are in private collections in the United States, Scandinavia, and Europe, including the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection.
Janet grew up in San Francisco after spending some of her childhood living in India and travelling abroad. She absorbed the sounds and textures, colors and movements of these places, taking quiet internal notes and learning how to observe. Looking - both out and within - is a foundational aspect of her work.
Janet now resides in both Northern California and in Sweden and paints landscapes inspired by each place. She’s working with themes of spaciousness, using transparent layers of color and light that speak to near and far. Her work explores our individual memory as well as memory held within the earth.
In times of global change, her work offers viewers a reminder of how connection to place can give us a salve, a sense of peace, and a love for holding all that is right here.