CV

Representation

Alpers Gallery, Rockport MA

https://www.alpersfineart.com/2024-johnson.html

Education

Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston MA

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Sustainability Minor, Academic Honors

Relevant Experience

Gallery and Museum Work

Fine Art Technician, Maquette Fine Art Services, Malden MA (2024-present)

Seasonal Gallery Sales Associate, Maine Art Hill, Kennebunk ME (2023)

Curator, Birds of a Feather, MassArt (2022)

Seasonal Museum Contractor, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA (2020)

Teaching

Art Instructor, Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts, Foxboro MA (2020-2021 and 2024)

Teaching Assistant, Life Cycle Stories, MassArt (2023)

Teaching Assistant, Drawing from Constructions, MassArt (2022)

Teaching Assistant, Painting from Observation Summer Intensive, MassArt (2022)

Assistantship

Studio Assistant to Professor Evelyn Rydz (2022-2023)

Studio Assistant to Professor Jane Marsching (2020)

Exhibitions

  • Duo Show at Norwood Frame Center, Norwood MA (2024)
  • NE Collective XIII: Voices and Visions, Galatea Fine Art (2024)
  • Passions, Blue Space Gallery (2024)
  • SONO Arts Winter Open Studios, Norwood MA (2023)
  • Wish List, See Saw Art Gallery (2023)
  • Visions of the Earth, Central Library of the Argentine Catholic University UCA (2023)
  • Sustaining the Next 150 Years at MassArt, MassArt (2023)
  • 24th Annual Frances N. Roddy Competition, Concord Art (2023)
  • Full Circle: The First Revolution, Mosaic Art Collective (2023)
  • Brush with Nature, Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm (2023)
  • State of the Earth, Midway Gallery (2023)
  • 2023 Emerging Artists Exhibit, Cambridge Art Association (2023)
  • Echos of Belonging, Pitcher-Goff House (2023)
  • Emerge Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023)
  • Graduating Senior Exhibition, MassArt (2023)
  • Senior Thesis Show, MassArt (2023)
  • All-School Show, MassArt (2023)
  • 37th Omer T. Lassonde Exhibit, NHAA’s Levy Gallery (2023)
  • Childhood and Nostalgia, MassArt (2023)
  • MassArt Auction (2023)
  • Fledgling, NHAA’s Levy Gallery (2023)
  • Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (2023)
  • Birds of a Feather, MassArt (2022)
  • 41st Haystack Show, MassArt (2022)
  • Art on the Line, Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts (2022)
  • Outside In, Upside Down, Cultural Center of Cape Cod (2022)
  • George Nick Award Show, MassArt (2022)
  • Anything Goes, Rhode Island Watercolor Society (2022)
  • All-School Show, MassArt (2022)
  • 40th Haystack Show, MassArt (2021)
  • All-School Show, MassArt (2021)
  • Faculty Show, Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts (2021)
  • Painting Through the Pandemic, Rhode Island Watercolor Society (2021)
  • All-School Show, MassArt (2020)
  • Opposites, Attleboro Arts Museum (2019)

Awards

  • Honorable Mention, Passions, Blue Space Gallery (2024)
  • Third Prize, Frances N. Roddy Competition, Concord Art (2023)
  • Marcia Lloyd Auction Award (2023)
  • George Nick Prize, MassArt (2022)
  • Gamblin Paint Supply Award, MassArt (2022)
  • Departmental Award, MassArt All-School Show (2022)
  • FA2D Nominee for the Yale Norfolk Summer Program, MassArt (2022)
  • Sophomore-Level Foundation Painting Award, MassArt (2021)
  • Studio Foundation program high achievement award, MassArt (2020)
  • Second place in the 2019 Marine Art Contest high school division, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (2019)
  • Excellence in Art Award, King Philip Regional High School
  • National Silver Medal, Silver Key, two honorable mentions, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2019)
  • Art All-State 2018, UMass Dartmouth (2018)
  • Silver Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2018)

Publications

  • Photography included in A River in Space and Time: An Ecological Assessment of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (2023)
  • Cambridge Art Association’s Emerging Artist’s Exhibit catalog, cover page (2023)
  • MassArt’s 2023 President’s Report Magazine (2023)
  • Artistonish Magazine (2022)
  • Furrow Magazine at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, cover page (2022)

Residencies

  • OCARC Margo-Gelb Dune Shack Residency (2024)
  • Maine Audubon Brush with Nature (2023)
  • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with MassArt (2022)
  • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with MassArt (2021)