Rindon Johnson (born 1990, California) is an American artist and writer.[1] Johnson has exhibited and performed widely at exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Johnson's multidisciplinary art practice blurs the line between photography, sculpture, and performance using various materials such as leather, light, Vaseline, video, photography and wood to explore aspects of lived space, memory, and history.[2][3] Johnson is a published author and co-runs the online poetry website, Imperial Matters, with Sophia Le Fraga.[4][5] Johnson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany.[6]

Early life and education

Johnson was born in San Francisco, California in 1990. Johnson graduated from New York University and received their MFA from Bard College in 2018.[5]

Work

Johnson is the author of several books including the chapbook, No One Sleeps Better Than White People, published by Inpatient Press and the virtual reality e-book, Meet Me in the Corner.[7] In 2017, Johnson collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Ser Serpas on Shade the King, a book of stream-of-consciousness-inspired poems by Johnson and abstract drawings by Serpas.[3]

Johnson has written for a number of online and print art publications such as The Brooklyn Rail,[8] Cultured Magazine,[9] Hyperallergic,[2] and Artforum[10] and has taught several courses at Bruce High Quality Foundation University.[1]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Well, Covered, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2018 (forthcoming)[11]
  • A Din, A Hand, Beacon Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 2017[12]
  • Existential Hangover, The Guest Room IRL at The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2017

Two-person exhibitions

  • NADA Presents with Ser Serpas. NADA New York, Ny. 2017[13]
  • Astral Oil, Global Family with Jonathan Durham curated by Sorry Archive, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2017[14]

Selected group exhibitions

  • Liquid Love, Gas, Los Angeles, CA, (forthcoming) 2018[15]
  • DiMODA, Digital Museum of Digital Art, siggraphasia, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017[16]
  • Hypomnemata, INCA, Seattle, WA, 2017[17]
  • New Black Portraitures, curated by Aria Dean, Rhizome, Online, 2017[18]
  • NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2017[19]
  • Somethings Come Between Us, Songs for Presidents, Brooklyn, NY, 2017[20]
  • Discursive Selves, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2017[21]
  • Montez Summer, Mathew, New York, NY, 2017
  • *the new liquid model*, Duve, Berlin, Germany, 2017[22]
  • The Double, Double Show, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017[23]
  • Night Sweats, Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects, Miami, FL, 2017[24]
  • March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York City, NY 2017
  • Queer Sounding Exhibition, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2017
  • About Face, Borscht, Miami, FL, 2017
  • ECOCORE 5, 80 WSE Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, 2017
  • The Unframed World, HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste), Basel, Switzerland, 2017
  • Destroy and Conquer, Disclaimer Gallery, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2016
  • BODY TECHNIQUE, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
  • Queering Space, Green Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2016
  • Rubbings, Zax, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
  • Re: Art Show, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY, 2016[25]
  • The Printed Room: Works off Paper, Mixtape, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, Switzerland, 2016
  • Celebrate Summer, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2016
  • Young, Colored and Angry, Holyrad Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
  • By Invitation Only Exhibition, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
  • The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY, 2014
  • Coast2Coast Exhibition, Almost Holden Collective, Santa Monica, CA, 2013[26]
  • CAW Juried Show, curated by Robert Storr, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, 2013
  • Into the Monochrome – No Empty Square, Peninsula Art Space & Brooklyn Fire Proof, Bushwick & Red Hook Brooklyn, NY, 2013[27]

References

  1. 1 2 NoFavorite. "BHQFU | The Annihilation of Time and Space: Image Literacy in the 21st Century". BHQFU. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "One Poem by Rindon Johnson". Hyperallergic. April 19, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Poems that Make You Aware of Your Skin". Hyperallergic. November 2, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Capricious Shade The King". becapricious.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  5. 1 2 ""Read My Lips" Poetry Reading". The Knockdown Center. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Artist & Poet Rindon Johnson on the Need For Speed During a Time of Global Disillusionment". March 2, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ Press, Inpatient. "NOBODY SLEEPS BETTER THAN WHITE PEOPLE by Rin Johnson". Inpatient Press. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon". The Brooklyn Rail. December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Rindon Johnson Interviews Her Favorite Artists Including Ser Serpas". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  10. ↑ "artforum.com / contributors". artforum.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Art Los Angeles Contemporary". artlosangelesfair.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Consent: May 22 – May 27". The Beacon Project. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  13. ↑ "NADA presents". NADA. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  14. ↑ "THE JAVA PROJECT – Astral Oil". THE JAVA PROJECT. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Liquid Love - Gas". Gas. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Digital Museum of Digital Art". Digital Museum of Digital Art. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Fragmenting the artifact: 'Hypomnemata' group show navigates the 'screenic' at INCA | atractivoquenobello". www.aqnb.com. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  18. ↑ "An introduction to New Black Portraitures". Rhizome. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  19. ↑ Wallis, Pip. "Uncontained bodies in anticipation and practice | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Something's Come Between Us at Songs for Presidents – Art Viewer". Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  21. ↑ Christina (July 4, 2017). "DISCURSIVE SELVES". Westbeth. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  22. ↑ "DUVE Berlin". DUVE Berlin. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  23. ↑ "Double-Double". AA ⎮ LA. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Re: Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects". Re: Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Re: Art Show". Re: Art Show. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  26. ↑ "Rin Johnson Various Light Games (America) Views... – Coast2Coast". Coast2Coast. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  27. ↑ "Into the Monochrome, No Empty Square". Peninsula Art Space. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
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