Jan Sessler

American, born 1962

(not assigned)Taos, New Mexico

(not assigned)Kettering, Ohio

BiographyJan Sessler has been living and working as an artist in Taos, New Mexico since 1993. Her work is in collections in Austria, Italy, Mexico, Guatemala and throughout much of the United States. In 2008 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York City.
In 2004 Jan had her first international one-person exhibition in Antigua, Guatemala, Rescuerdos Rescatados, followed in 2005 by her first one-person museum exhibition, Jan Sessler: Works on Paper at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico. In June 2010, Jan had her first solo exhibition in Europe. This exhibition of her collage works on paper entitled Wiedergeburttook place in Vienna, Austria.
Jan holds a B.A. in International Studies from Miami University in Oxford Ohio and has studied art at the University of New Mexico in Taos, the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at the Institute Americaine des Universités in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Sessler's mixed media works incorporate the use of chine collé, collage, paint, ink and graphite with found object, old text, flyleaves and fabric. In 1998 she was selected by David Witt, former curator of the Harwood Museum of Art, as part of a group of 14 artists forming "The Next Generation" of Taos artists. In 2003 she was selected by Douglas Dreishpoon, Senior Curator of The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, to participate in Contemporary Art/Taos at the Harwood Museum of Art, along with 16 other artists including Agnes Martin, Ken Price, Ron Davis and Larry Bell.

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