Bio

Uhma Janus is a perceiver and a thinker who finds expressive outlets as a visual artist, through her writings, and musical compositions. Her interest lies in voicing the phenomenological process that incorporates the view of the fundamental constituents of reality in the dynamic, interconnected systems, they form.

Janus is a self-taught visual artist. Her representations are imbued with her interests in the fundamental, in the dynamism of complex systems, and in the disciplines of Geometry, Physics, and Microbiology.

Her work has been exhibited regionally, including at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Frazier History Museum, KY Opera Center for Cultural Health, Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center, Louisville City Hall, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Dutoit Gallery (Dayton, OH), Contemporary Capacity Exchange Gallery (Louisville, KY). She has led workshops at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. She has been a recipient of Great Meadows Foundation Grant.

She was born and raised in Leon, Mexico. She completed her coursework for a Bachelor in Science in Physics by the University of Guanajuato, with interest in theoretical Particle Physics.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisville.

Janus resides in Louisville, Kentucky. She can be found in her studio, writing at a coffee shop, exploring the urban louisvillian air during her walks, in mechanical dance-like trances when liked rhythmic music compels her so, and overall, being just human.

Exhibitions

2026

Group Exhibition, Vida Nueva. La Galeria en Foko, Louisville, KY USA

On Display along Scalia/Ginsburg Opera. Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health, Louisville, KY USA

2025-2026

Group Exhibition, Aflora. Frazier History Museum, Louisville, KY USA

2025

Group Exhibition, One More Round. Capacity Contemporary Exchange, Louisville, KY USA

Group Exhibition, BLEND 2025. Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center, Lexington, KY USA

Group Exhibition, Summer Members’ Show. MaybeItsFate, Louisville, KY USA

Juried Group Exhibition, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Regional Showcase Exhibition. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH USA

2024-2025

Juried Group Exhibition, Art in City Hall. Louisville City Hall. Louisville, KY USA

2024

Group Exhibition, Radiant Reaching. Dutoit Gallery, Dayton OH USA

Juried Group Exhibition, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Regional Showcase Exhibition. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH USA

Group Exhibition, Girl Crush. Art Portal, Louisville KY USA

Curated by Kris Thompson and Cindy Norton

2023

Juried Group Exhibition, Open Studio Louisville. Cressman Center for Visual Art Gallery. Louisville, KY USA

Group Exhibition, Latino BLEND 2023. Lexington Main Library. Lexington, KY USA

Juried Group Exhibition, 2023 Black and White Show. KORE Gallery, Louisville, KY USA

2022-2023

Solo Exhibition, Dispositional Granularity. Contemporary Capacity Exchange, Louisville, KY USA

2021-2023

Group Exhibition, Our Kentucky Home: Hispanic/Latin American Visual Art in the Commonwealth. Traveling exhibit. Various locations in KY, USA, including the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

2021

Group Exhibition, 2021 OSL Juried Exhibition. Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY, USA

(Jurors: Maria Seda-Reeder, Director of Exhibitions and Artist Support Initiatives Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, Anthony Mead, Director of Morlan Gallery at Transylvania University, Joshua Bennet, Independent curator and Gallery Manager of Tinney Contemporary in Nashville)

Solo Exhibition, Beginnings. Selected Works by Uhma Janus. Pigment Gallery, Louisville, KY, USA

Workshops

April 2025

In collaboration with Valerie Fuchs, led Water Studies: Expressions and Impression Teen Workshop. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA

March 2023

Led Adult Workshop: Acrylic Ink Abstraction. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA

Talks

December 2024

Valerie Sullivan Fuchs & Uhma Janus Artist Talk

and excerpt screening of Leonardo Da Vinci Part 1. The Natural World is the Greatest Teacher. Maybeitsfate, Louisville, KY, USA

Collections

Shapin Nicolas Art Project (SNAP) Louisville, KY

Grants

2025, Great Meadows Foundation, Round 28

Media

Miller, D., Janus, U., Scanlon, D. 28 May 2026. 2026 art[squared] Online Auction & Party [Interview] https://www.artebelladaily.org/artebella/2026/5/28/artists-talk-with-lva-may-28-2026

Janus, Uhma. “Artebella On The Radio: July 8”. By Keith S Waits. 8 July 2021, www.artebelladaily.org/artebella/2021/7/8/artebella-on-the-radio-july-8

“Artist Spotlight: Uhma Janus“. Mellwood Art and Entertainment Center, 2020, www.mellwoodartcenter.com/spotlight/artist-spotlight-uhma-janus

Waits, Keith. “Vignette: Uhma Janus.” Louisville Visual Art, 6 July 2018, www.louisvillevisualart.org/artebella/2018/7/5/vignette-uhma-janus