Janez Bernik (6 September 1933 – 15 July 2016) was a multiple-time awarded and internationally acclaimed Slovenian painter and academic.

From 1958 to 1969, he worked as a freelance artist, and in 1970 started teaching as a professor of drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.

His poems were published in two collections; the first one in the monograph Lines ("Črte"), and the second one, Triptych ("Triptih"), in the catalogue 1985 Exhibition ("Razstava 1985") and the New Magazine ("Nova revija").

He also received a number of international honorary awards and golden medals for painting and graphic design.

Many of his works are also kept in the Northern and Southern Americas (San Francisco, Washington, New York, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro), and even Japan (Tokyo).