Leslie Johnson
Om Leslie Johnson
LESLIE JOHNSON (b. 1955, Illinois) lives and works in Bärfendal, Sweden. Johnson received her BA from Connecticut College in 1978, and continued studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the New School for Social Research, New York. Her work has been exhibited in Moscow, New York, and widely in Scandinavia, where she has worked at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden as an educator, researcher, and Director (2003-11). Johnson has had solo exhibitions at Forever & Today, New York City (2012), 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, India (2012); Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden (2005); Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden (2004); and Galleri Paletten, Gothenburg, Sweden (2001). She has exhibited work in public places throughout Sweden such as Gothenburg Azalea Park (2011), medical centers in Hunnebostrand (2011) and Strömstad (2012), the library in Kungshamn (2000) and the Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport, among others. Johnson has produced self-published artist books and publications since 1984, and has been published in Swedish art journals Ord & Bild, Paletten, and Art Monitor, among others. She received awards from the Swedish State Arts Council, Society Gnistan, and Residencia Internacional de Artistas en Argentina in Buenos Aires (RIAA) in 2010, and her work is represented in private and public collections, including the Swedish State Collection, West Sweden Region, Borås, Västerås, and Gothenburg Art museums. A public art commission "Totemistic" is placed in Angered (Lärjeåns dalgång) since 2013. Her interest for teaching began with techniques such as printmaking but developed to creating projects where students can respond to the site with diverse media and solutions. As Director of Valand she worked with curriculum and program development during the Bologna process including the Valand summer program and a post-grad Independent Study/teaching Assistant program as well as International exchange projects with CCA (San Francisco), Concordia University (Montreal) and Institute for Problems in Contemporary Art (Moscow) as well as a research project ”Education Annex” about site-specific education.
Her current research is focussed on developing art works to explore the meaning of green. "The green curtain" is displayed in the Marstrand konsthall Strandverket Winter exhibition 2015.
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METAMORPHOSIS OF
POWER
Leslie Johnson, Josefina Posch
Valand Academy Research Day 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
The Tbilisi Art
Market
Leslie Johnson, Josefina Posch
Tbilisi Design Magazine - 2019-01-01 -
The Metamorphosis of Power / Walk the Solar
Carpet
Leslie Johnson, Josefina Posch
The Metamorphosis of Power / Walk the Solar Carpet - 2019-01-01 -
ARTIM TALK: LESLIE JOHNSON AND JOSEFINA
POSCH
Leslie Johnson, Josefina Posch
Artim Talks Yarat Art Center, Baku Azerbajian - 2019-01-01 -
Unravelling: Från en historia till
annan
Leslie Johnson
Hammarkullen Konsthall - 2018-01-01 -
Bubble in Progress: Do Not
Disturb
Leslie Johnson
Exhibition Galleri Box - 2018-01-01 -
Financial
Cushions
Leslie Johnson, Smriti Mehra
October 15, 2017 (circa) published as artist multiple on Etsy.Etsy. The project “Financial Cushions” characterized as artist’s multiple, appears on Etsy which is an online market place where people can find merchandise and purchase. - 2017-01-01 -
Artist Books: Reinventing work in book
form
Leslie Johnson
Work was first shown in an exhibition in Bangalore India in an apartment gallery called Home Sweet Home. Published on website. - 2017-01-01 -
3BHK
Leslie Johnson
2016. 12.10—2017.01.03 Cochin India - 2016-01-01 -
Walk the Green
Carpet
Leslie Johnson
Taj West End Hotel, Bangalore, India - 2015-01-01 -
Strandverket
Vintersalong
Leslie Johnson
Strandverket Konsthall, Marstrand Sweden - 2015-01-01 -
Gold
Rush
Leslie Johnson
2015-05-24 - 2015-01-01 -
Drive By
Video
Leslie Johnson
Prestige Shopping Center, Yelehanka New Town Main Road, Bangalore India - 2015-01-01 -
Cow
Magnet
Leslie Johnson
Krishimela Agricultural Fair, Bangalore, India - 2015-01-01 -
här ute, där
inne
Gunilla Burstedt, Kalle Boman, Sofia Gräsberg, Paulin Nande, Leslie Johnson, Kjell Caminha, Andrea Bodelsson, Martin Hultén
- 2014-01-01 -
Nature: A Good
Idea
Peter Ojstersek, Leslie Johnson
Trollhättans konsthall - 2014-01-01 -
Kirke Kangro: Excluded
Inside
Leslie Johnson
Galleri Entrance, Göteborg - 2014-01-01 -
Bo Melin:
Queue
Leslie Johnson
Gallery Entrance - 2014-01-01 -
Arkiv/Me (Micaela Cignozzi, Ingvild Davidson and Johan
Andrén)
Leslie Johnson
Galleri Entrance, Göteborg - 2014-01-01 -
TOTEMISTIC - FROM GARDEN TO GALLERY TO
FOREST
Leslie Johnson
Commissioned by the Charles Felix Lindbergh fund for the city of Göteborg for a new park project in Angered, a suburb of Göteborg. - 2013-01-01 -
Days to
go
Leslie Johnson
Exhibition Gallery and Project Space Forever & Today, 141 Division Street, New York, NY, USA, September 9-27 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
No
Idea
Leslie Johnson
"No Idea" in Sjöberg Optiker, Chalmersgatan, Göteborg - 2012-01-01 -
Casting In/Casting
Out
Leslie Johnson
1 Shanthi Road gallery/residency, Bangalore India - 2012-01-01 -
Exhibition at Bohuslinden Medical
Center
Leslie Johnson
Bohuslinden Medical Center, Strömstad, Sweden January 20, 2012 - February 24, 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
What's art education got to do with
it?
Leslie Johnson
Art Eros Education Conference, Aalto University of Art and Design, Helsinki - 2012-01-01