| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Janine Hall was born into one of Alberta’s most accomplished art families. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta College of Art + Design), Calgary, AB with a Diploma in Painting in 1987 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2003. Janine Hall has an active practice in Calgary, AB working in representational painting and drawing. Commissioned portraiture is a large component of her studio practice. In addition, Hall is devoted to the study and practice of art and the symbolic language systems of Tarot and Astrology.
She has had several solo exhibitions including Janine Hall Spirit, Weiss Gallery, Calgary (2008); Mystix, Medicine Hat Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, AB (1993); and Janine Hall, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB (1988) and has participated in numerous group exhibitions across Canada. In 2011-2012, Hall was awarded the Kingston Prize: Canada's National Portrait Competition with her works being shown at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON; La Galerie d'art Desjardins, Drummondville, PQ; and the Firehall Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, ON. Her work, Red Plaid Jacket, was preselected for the FIGURATIVAS 2015 competition by the Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes in Barcelona, Spain. Her art is held in numerous private collections and in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. |