Jana Sterbak
A Czech-born Canadian artist, Jana Sterbak lives and works in Montreal and Barcelona.
Jana Sterbak’s career now spans more than 40 years. The artist has helped redefine contemporary art through her sculptures, videos, installations and performances. She occupies an enviable position on the national and international art scene, with major exhibitions presented at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Carré d’art (Nîmes), the Palais des Papes (Avignon), the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Fondation Tàpies (Barcelona), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, the Galerie Im Taxispalais (Innsbruck) and the Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg).
Her works are included in several Canadian, European, American and Australian museum collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Walker Art Center, the San Diego Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, MAAXI Museum, Museion, the National Gallery of Australia, the Queensland Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the Folkwang Museum, the Lehmbruck Museum, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. She has won numerous prizes, among them the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, the Chalmers Arts Fellowships from the Arts Council of Ontario, the Prix Ozias-Leduc from the Fondation Émile-Nelligan and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. [Source : VOX, 2025]
