Janet Laurence lives and works in Sydney. She is currently doing a Phd at RMIT in ephemeral architecture. She is a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Selected individual exhibitions
1989 Blind Spot, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW 1990 Lunami Gallery, Australia-Japan exchange, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Rare, City Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 1993 Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand; The Measure of Light, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland 1994 Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan; Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1995 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 1996 States of Matter, Michael Milburn Galley, Brisbane, Queensland; Less Stable Elements, University Gallery, Newcastle, NSW 1997 Unfold, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW; Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan; Ph, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 2000 Transpiration, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW; Muses, Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Victoria

Selected group exhibitions
1985 Australian Perspecta, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW 1988 Abstraction by degree, Milburn + Arte Brisbane; 200 Years of Australian Drawing, Australian Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, ACT 1990 Tokyo Connection, Tokyo, Japan; Abstraction, AGNSW, Sydney; 1991 Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism in Art, The Wharf, Sydney, NSW 1991 Synthesis:Art + Architecture, Bond Stores, Sydney, NSW 1994 Boundary Rider: Biennale of Sydney, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW; Poetics of Immanence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW and touring South Australian regional galleries 1996 Systems End, curated show travelling in Japan and Korea; 1996Ð7 Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, NSW 1997 Global Art, Carpediem Gallery, Bangkok Thailand; Australian Perspecta: Between Art and Nature, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW; Innenseite, Kassell, Germany 1998 The Infinite Space: Woman, Minimalism and the Sculptural Object, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, VIC 1999 CinderellaÕs Gems: Art and the Intellectual Missile, touring Queensland, NSW and Victoria; Art Chicago 1999, Chicago, USA; Home and Away: The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2000 Sydney 2000 Olympic Design of the Millennium, Royal Institute of British Architects, London and touring to Customs House Sydney, NSW

Commissions
1992 Itoki Building, The Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 1993 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Canberra ACT collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Architects 1994 Edge of the Trees, sculptural installation for the Museum of Sydney, in collaboration with Fiona Foley; 1995 Chronicle I-V, Herald and Weekly Times Building Southbank Melbourne, VIC 1997 Olympic Museum, Lausanne Switzerland, collaboration with Jisuk Han, for Australian Exhibition Space 1997Ð1998 49 Veils, Central Synagogue Bondi Sydney NSW, windows in collaboration with Jisuk Han 1998 Picture the Dark Face of the River, Department of Environment, Canberra, ACT 1999 Veil of Trees, in collaboration with Jisuk Han, Sydney Sculpture Walk Sydney NSW; Accretion, ANZ Bank Sydney NSW; Stilled Lives, Museum Victoria Melbourne VIC 2000 Chapel for Australian Catholic University Melbourne VIC in collaboration with Julie Rrap 2000 In the Shadow, Homebush Bay Olympic site

Residencies and Grants
1980 Bennington College Vermont, USA 1983 Visual Arts Board, Australia Council; VAB Travel Grant, Paretaio, Italy 1988 Visual Arts/Craft Board Australia Council; Studio Grant, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Rockefeller Foundation residency, Bellagio, Italy; Newcastle University, artist-in-residence 1996Ð98 Australia Council 2-year Fellowship 2000 Macgeorge Fellowship, The University of Melbourne, VIC.