About

Jan Brandt is an artist working in mixed-media, textiles, printmaking, and painting. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, both from Illinois State University in Normal, IL. She has owned and curated Jan Brandt Gallery since 2012. Brandt’s work has been shown in San Francisco and Davis, CA, Chicago and surrounding areas, New York City, Oberlin, Ohio, Indianapolis and Evansville, IN, Boston, MA, Champaign- Urbana, and Peoria, IL as well as in her local community of Bloomington- Normal, IL. Her installation work was featured in The Illinois State Museum Galleries of Lockport and Springfield. Selected print and online publications include Create! Magazine, Creative Boom, UPPERCASE, American Art Collector, Studio Visit, Creative Quarterly, the Journal of Art and Design, Poets and Artists “The New Feminists” and “Freak Out”, Women’s Caucus For Art (WCA) website, and The Dialogist. In 2018, Brandt’s Happy Contagion was exhibited at The Boston Biennial V at Atlantic Works Gallery as The First Prize Winner in the Installation Category. Her work was selected for the “Degrees of Abstraction” group exhibition at The Argonne National Laboratory Gallery 201 in Lemont, IL in 2018. Brandt’s solo work in “Evolving Allusions” was exhibited at The Performing Arts Center Gallery of Illinois Central College in East Peoria, IL November 2018 through January 2019. Brandt was included in a three person show, “Prism,” at the McLean County Arts Center in August 2020. In 2021, Brandt’s Solo Exhibition “Hothouse” was on view at The Contemporary Art Center of Peoria. She recently coordinated an art gallery within the newly constructed YMCA of Bloomington-Normal, IL. In January 2023, Brandt’s solo exhibition, “Botanica Imaginaria” was on view at the Water Street Studios in Batavia, IL. Other shows in 2023 were “Flourish” at the Anne Lloyd Gallery in Decatur, “Magic Garden” at Open Space Gallery in Ottawa, “Time, Memory and Mythos” at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, “Light in the Darkness” at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago. In 2024, Brandt will be in a three person exhibition at The Peoria Art Guild.

JAN BRANDT GALLERY

Jan Brandt is the artist/owner of Jan Brandt Gallery in Normal, IL. Brandt formerly curated rotating artist exhibits in a historic former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant. She now continues this in a new space at 613 Oglesby Ave.