Jan Gilbert (visual artist)

Jan Gilbert (born June 28, 1953) is an American visual artist, curator, and educator based in New Orleans. Since the 1980s, she has been known for her interdisciplinary and multi-media works that incorporate a variety of found objects. In a review of her Threshold exhibition, writer D. Eric Bookhardt wrote: “Gilbert’s exploration of an ordinary, even tawdry reality dissects not merely the images, but the mechanics of perception along with our assumptions about art, objects, and reality.”

Gilbert's work has been shown in galleries, museums, public art installations, and other venues both across the U.S. and abroad. Gilbert has been recognized with a number of awards, including individual artist’s fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Southern Arts Federation and National Endowment for the Arts, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Art Matters. Her projects have also been supported by grants from the NEA and Rockefeller Initiative for Interdisciplinary Artists, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ford Foundation, and National Association of Artists' Organizations, among others.