ESSAYS
The Tonic of Wildness, Bonavista Biennale 2021, essay by Patricia Grattan
Anne Koval, Fairy Tails, 2020
Marie Maltais, Attending the Apocalypse, 2020
“Alpha-Omega: The End of Times”
Brad Aaron Modlin, Proximity, summer, 2017
"Between Too Many Rats and So Many Roses: the Artwork of Janice Wright Cheney"
Sue Sinclair, Canadian Art, March 29, 2017
"The Lumbering Beauty of Janice Wright Cheney's Bears"
Cellar, 2012: essays by
Terry Graff, “Rats in the Cellar”
Lianne McTavish, “Engaging Vermin: The Works of Janice Wright Cheney”
Sarah Fillmore, “RATS!”
Oh Canada, 2012: essays by
Ruth Cuthand, Interview with artist
Denise Markonish, “Oh, Canada or: How I learned to love 3.8 Million Square
Miles of Art North of the 49th Parallel”
Dirt, Detritus and Vermin, 2011: essay by Katie Belcher, “Ornament and Grime”
Trespass, 2010: essay by Peter Larocque
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Record, summer 2023: Exploring the fragile world by Alexandra Montana
“Exploring the fragile world”
Espace, fall 2022: article by Sarah Moore Fillmore
“Sculptural Skins: Surface as Content”
Created Here, June 15, 2020: Review of Rewilding by Meaghan Laaper
"Rewilding: Through the Lens of Janice Wright Cheney"
Billie Magazine, August 14, 2019: review of Rewild by Ray Cronin
“SEEN: Janice Wright Cheney Rewilds the Museum”
Telegraph Journal, August 12, 2017: article by Karen Pinchin
"A Place of Magic"
Grid City Magazine, August 17, 2016: review by Claire Shiplett
"A Shimmering Sardinia"
Alternatives, fall 2015: article by Linda Nowlan
"Extinction Art"
Visual Arts News, spring 2015, review of Cellar by Audrey Nicoll, “Vermin & Luxury”
The Globe and Mail, August 14, 2014: article by James Adams
“Four art exhibitions with that 'sacred touch of beauty’”
The Coast, December 4, 2014: review of Cellar, by Stephanie Johns
“Rat Pack”