Janna graduated from Yale University in 2012 with high honors in the visual arts and Summa Cum Laude At California State University Northridge 2022. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, Japan, Iran, and New York, and New Mexico. Her artworks and curations are covered in Vice, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Artforum, ARTNews, the Los Angeles Times, the Paris Review, and the New York Times.

Janna was a guest speaker for UCLA’s Digital Media Arts Department (2017) and the New York Times School (2019). Janna’s current work focuses on dislocation, technology theory, and indigenous futurism and was the Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Art Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in 2023.

Her writings on Artificial Intelligence were published in “What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate, and Reinvent Our Future” (2017), considered “one of the best science books of the year” by Smithsonian Magazine. She cofounded the digital media festival FEMMEBIT and advises SUPERCOLLIDER Gallery.

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