Janet Werner (born 1959) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal.

Her work is known for its incisive and playful depictions of female figures, raising questions about the nature of the subject in painting.

[1][2][3] Janet Werner was born in 1959 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches at Concordia University.

Later, she studied at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1987.

Werner explores themes of subjectivity and desire by producing composites of found images.