Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Janet Rosen attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School until moving to San Francisco in 1974.

She graduated with her BS in Nursing from the University of San Francisco in 1981. While still attending USF, she learned to sew at the Sewing Workshop and studied patternmaking with Simone Sethna.

Her paintings have been featured at galleries, cafes and corporate spaces around northern California since 1990 and she was a longtime participant in San Francisco Open Studios.

She began training in aikido in 1996 and has been a contributing writer/editor to Aikiweb's "the Mirror" column since 2004.

Janet decided to bring together her love for design and fabric and her devotion to aikido in 2001, designing a baby gi and offering custom weapons bags.

She maintains her studio at her current home in Mendocino County, sharing it with her husband, jazz maven Stuart Kremsky, and two cats. She works part time as a nurse case manager for a local nonprofit agency serving frail low income seniors, and trains at Ukiah Aikido.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
Tierra Gallery, Ukiah CA: "The Lay of the Land" (solo show)

2008
MEC Gallery, Ukiah CA (group show)
Ukiah Players Gallery, Ukiah CA: "Land and Sea" (solo show)

2007
Frankenart Mart, San Francisco: "Hello Pussy"
Frankenart Mart, San Francisco: "Brown Paper Bag"

2006
Art Waves, San Francisco (group show)

2005
SF Public Library: "Constructing Reality" (presentation)
Inner Sunset ArtWalk, San Francisco

2004
Tangerine Gallery, Ukiah: "Time and Space" (solo show)
SF Public Library: "Preparing to Paint" (presentation)

2003
SF Unitarian Church (group show)
Sunset Artist Society (group show)
Tangerine Gallery, Ukiah (group landcape show)
Renaissance Gallery, Ukiah (group landscape show)

2002
Walter Adams Gallery, San Francisco: "Coast Range" (solo show)
Walter Adams Gallery, San Francisco:"Land and Sea" (solo show)
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco: "Omer Calendars" (group show)

2001
Jewish Community Library, San Francisco: "Art of Jewish Healing" (group show)

2000
Atrium Gallery, Marin General Hospital: "Millenium Show" (group show)

1999
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco: "New Plein Air Painting" (group show)

1998
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco: "When Voices Become Pictures" (group show)

1997
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco: "Pacific Series" (solo show)
Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco: Artspan Annual Juried Show (group show)

1996
Atrium Gallery, Marin General Hospital: "I Stopped Breathing" (solo show)
ARTwork Gallery, San Francisco: "Women's Work Week" (featured artist)