Rindon Johnson

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 Sofia 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 Universityand will receive their MFA from Bard College in 2018.[7]

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 book, Meet Me in the Corner.[8] 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.[9]

Johnson has written for a number of online and print art publications such as The Brooklyn Rail,[10] Cultured Magazine,[11] Hyperallergic,[12] and Artforum[13] and has taught several courses at Bruce High Quality Foundation University.[14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Well, Covered, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2018 (forthcoming)[15]
  • A Din, A Hand, Beacon Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 2017[16]
  • 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[17]
  • Astral Oil, Global Family with Jonathan Durham curated by Sorry Archive, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2017[18]

Selected group exhibitions

  • Liquid Love, Gas, Los Angeles, CA, (forthcoming) 2018
  • DiMODA, Digital Museum of Digital Art, siggraphasia, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017
  • Hypomnemata, INCA, Seattle, WA, 2017
  • New Black Portraitures, curated by Aria Dean, Rhizome, Online, 2017
  • NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2017
  • Somethings Come Between Us, Songs for Presidents, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
  • Discursive Selves, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
  • Montez Summer, Mathew, New York, NY, 2017
  • *the new liquid model*, Duve, Berlin, Germany , 2017
  • The Double, Double Show, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
  • Night Sweats, Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects, Miami, FL, 2017[19]</ref>
  • March Madness, Fort Gansevoort , New York, 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[20]
  • 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[21]
  • 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[22]

References

  1. ↑ NoFavorite. "BHQFU | The Annihilation of Time and Space: Image Literacy in the 21st Century". BHQFU. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  2. ↑ "One Poem by Rindon Johnson". Hyperallergic. April 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  3. ↑ "Poems that Make You Aware of Your Skin". Hyperallergic. November 2, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  4. ↑ "Capricious Shade The King". becapricious.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  5. ↑ ""Read My Lips" Poetry Reading". The Knockdown Center. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  6. ↑ "Artist & Poet Rindon Johnson on the Need For Speed During a Time of Global Disillusionment". March 2, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  7. ↑ ""Read My Lips" Poetry Reading". The Knockdown Center. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  8. ↑ Press, Inpatient. "NOBODY SLEEPS BETTER THAN WHITE PEOPLE by Rin Johnson". Inpatient Press. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  9. ↑ "Poems that Make You Aware of Your Skin". Hyperallergic. November 2, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  10. ↑ "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  11. ↑ "Rindon Johnson Interviews Her Favorite Artists Including Ser Serpas". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  12. ↑ "One Poem by Rindon Johnson". Hyperallergic. April 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  13. ↑ "artforum.com / contributors". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  14. ↑ NoFavorite. "BHQFU | The Annihilation of Time and Space: Image Literacy in the 21st Century". BHQFU. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  15. ↑ "Art Los Angeles Contemporary". artlosangelesfair.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  16. ↑ "Consent: May 22 – May 27". The Beacon Project. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  17. ↑ "NADA presents". NADA. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  18. ↑ "THE JAVA PROJECT – Astral Oil". THE JAVA PROJECT. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  19. ↑ "Re: Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects". Re: Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  20. ↑ "Re: Art Show". Re: Art Show. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  21. ↑ "Rin Johnson Various Light Games (America) Views... – Coast2Coast". Coast2Coast. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  22. ↑ "Into the Monochrome, No Empty Square". Peninsula Art Space. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
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