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Ezra Johnson is a painter whose work explores territories that include collage, sculpture and video; often at the same time.
About Ezra Johnson
Ezra Johnson is a painter based in Tampa Florida. Born in 1975 in Wenatchee, Washington. He received an MFA from Hunter College in New York in 2006 and a BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2000. Johnson’s painting practice often expands into animation and sculpture. Interested in experimenting with color, form and surface his work takes a playful, energetic approach to serious subject matter.
Johnson has exhibited at many prestigious museums such as the Nerman Museum of Art in Kansas, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Site Santa Fe Biennial, the ICA in Philadelphia, as well as gallery exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Johnson is represented by Freight + Volume Gallery in New York and Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of South Florida.
Ezra Johnson CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Freight & Volume Gallery NYC, March 2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery Miami, December 2017
2016
Arts & Leisure Gallery NYC, October 2016
Ezra Johnson, Painted Animations 2006-2016, Young Projects LA, March- Sept 2016
2015
“Cut Rate Paradise” Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Florida
2014
“It’s Under the Thingy” Fright and Volume Gallery, NYC
Nada Art Fair NYC, Solo Presentation
Festival for Contemporart Arts, Pianello Val Tidone, Italy. Curated by Paolo Baldacci
2012
Freight And Volume Gallery, “Five Kinds Of Light” New York, NY
2011
New Galerie, “A Ship to Sing a Song To”, Paris, France
2009
New Galerie “A Gentleman’s Painter Among Bohemians”, Paris, France
2008
Dia Center, “Wrestling The Blob Beast”, curated by Lynn Cooke, New York, NY
2007
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, “What Birds Remember if They Do Remember”, NYC
UCLA Hammer Museum, “What Visions Burn”, Hammer Projects, Los Angeles
Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
Galeria Glance, “Lost To Begin” Torino, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Moving Image-Istanbul Biennial, Sept 4-7
Arts + Leisure Gallery, “Your Bad Self”, NYC
OOF Collective, Philadelphia, University of the Arts, Curated byJennifer Levonian
2014
“Of a Feather” Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN curated by T. Michael Martin
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Prize Orlando, FLSS
Leslie Heller gallery, “Enticing Luminosity” curated by Olive Ayhens
2013
“Slumping Towards Bethlehem” Untitled Art Fair, Miami, DNA Gallery
2012
“The Dirty Dozen”, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
Satyrs and Centaurs, :Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2011 Artists In Residence Biannual, Knoxville
2011
Pepin Moore, “From Where You Just Arrived” Los Angelas, CA
Champion Contemporary, “Wild Beasts”, Austin, TX
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep”, NYC
Sue Scott Gallery, “Paper”, New York, NY
St. Cecilias Convent, “Matinee”, curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Brooklyn
2010
ICA, “Video Art: Replay, Part 2. Every Day Imaginary”, Philadelphia, PA
SITE Santa Fe, “Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms”, Santa Fe, NM
Monya Rowe Gallery, “Metallica”, curated by Patrick Brennan, New York, NY
On Stellar Rays Gallery, curated by Franklin Evans, New York, NY
Invisible Exports Gallery, “Lush Life”, curated by Franklin Evans, New York, NY
FRESH FROM CHELSEA: UCF GALLERY University of Central Florida,
CPH PIX, “Animated Screen”, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, “20 Years”, New York, NY
Leubsdorf Gallery, “Mixing It Up”, Hunter College, New York, NY
2007
House of Campari, “Distinctive Messengers”, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, New York, NY
Lismore Castle, “Titled/Untitled”, County Waterford, Ireland
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, “Extremes & In Betweens”, Long Island City, NY, curated by Joshua Altman
F15 Galleri, “AniMotion”, curated by Elisabeth Byre, Oslo, Norway
Kantor / Feuer Gallery, “Warhol &….”, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Tilton Gallery, “School Days”, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Space, “Salad Days”, New York, NY
Kravets/ Wehby Gallery, “Pictionary”, New York, NY
King Fisher Projects, “Happy Endings”, Ridgewood, NY
2003
Year Gallery, “All That Was Not Then”, Brooklyn, NY
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2016
LA Times: Critics Pick- Wonder and Despair, Frame by Frame, The Stirring Animations of Ezra Johnson by Leah Ollman, April 13, 2016
Miami Rail, Ezra Johnson: Cut Rate Paradise, (March 2016) Erin Thurlow
2015
Artnews, Reviews (Jan 1, 2015) Stephen Maine
2014
Hyperallergic, Evoking the Erotics of the Art Object by William J. Simmons
Orlando Museum of art “Florida Prize” catalogue essay by Hansen Mulford
NY Times, NADA Preview, (Color photo)
2012
Modern Painter Magazine, 100 Artists To Watch (#13)
2011
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, “Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times”, July
Esplund, Lance, The Wall Street Journal, “The Usual Suspects”, October
2007
Danbrot, Shana Nys, “Motion Pictures: Ezra Johnson,” Art Review, March
Willis, Holly, LA Weekly, “Signal to Noise: What Visions Burn,” February 7
Tumlir, Jan, Hammer Projects exhibition brochure, “Ezra Johnson: About the Exhibition,” UCLA Hammer Museum
Flavorpill, “Visual Arts: Animation – Ezra Johnson,” Issue#343, January 3
2006
The New Yorker, “Ezra Johnson at Nicole Klagsbrun,” December 20
The New York Sun, “On the Town: Video,” December 19
RESIDENCIES
2010-11
UT Knoxville, Artist in Residence Teaching Fellowship
2008-09
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2006-07
Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
EDUCATION
2006
Hunter College, MFA, New York, NY
2000
California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA, CA
Men Who Paint Flowers featured in Miami Art Zine
August 10, 2022/by Frances TromblyMen Who Paint Flowers
August 6 - September 10, 2022
Ezra Johnson: Paintings From A Room
May 15—June 19, 2021
Ezra Johnson: Floating on Top
December 2, 2018 - January 12, 2019
Both Galleries
Both Galleries
Conversation with artist and curator Ezra Johnson
December 27, 2017/by Frances TromblyEzra Johnson
Ezra Johnson:Cut Rate Paradise
December 19, 2015-January 30, 2016
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