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Janet Zweig
Brooklyn, NY

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"Columbus never..."

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BIOGRAPHY

Zweig is an artist working primarily in the public realm. Her recently installed public pieces include a kinetic work in downtown Milwaukee, a generative sculpture for a water-treatment plant near Seattle, a moving-light sculpture for a library in Washington, a sentence-generating sculpture for an engineering school in Orlando, and a memorial on the lawn of Mellon Park in Pittsburgh. Other public works include a 1,200-foot frieze at the Prince Street subway station in New York City, and a system-wide interactive project for eleven light-rail train stations in Minneapolis, which incorporates the work of more than 100 Minnesotans. Zweig's awards include the Rome Prize Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and residencies at PS1 museum and MacDowell Colony. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Brown University.

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