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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
EDUCATION
2006
MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2000
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sunday Morning Coming Down, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2023
Selected Animations, Florida School of the Arts
2022
Infinity Rooms, Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC
2021
Paintings from a Room, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2019
Screening survey of stop-frame animations, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
2018
Floating on Top, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
Cap’n Crunch, Freight + Volume, Miami, FL
Janitors Closet, Volta Art Fair, NYC
2016
Angry Sea, Arts + Leisure Gallery, NYC
Ezra Johnson Painted Animations 2006-2016, Young Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Cut Rate Paradise, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2014
It’s Under the Thingy, Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC
Der, Die, Das, NADA Art Fair, NYC
Festival for Contemporary Arts, Pianello, Val Tidone, Italy
2012
Five Kinds of Light, Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC
2011
A Ship to Sing a Song To, New Galerie, Paris, France
2009
A Gentleman’s Painter Among Bohemians, New Galerie, Paris, France
2008
Wrestling the Blob Beast, DIA Center, NYC
2007
What Birds Remember if They Do Remember, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
What Visions Burn, Hammer Museum UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Kantor, Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
Lost To Begin, Galeria Glance, Torino, Italy
2006
What Visions Burn, Hunter College MFA Exhibition, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
USF Faculty Show, HCC Art Gallery, FL
2023
The Day I Saw You, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Queretaro, Mexico City, MX
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Freight + Volume, NYC
Contextualizing New & Past, Platform Gallery DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Ezra Johnson Lilies, David Zwirner Platform
Men Who Paint Flowers, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Still, Platform Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Confluence of Costal Creativity, Albertz Benda Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Full Circle, Take it Easy, Atlanta, GA
Impinging Environments, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Skyway, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2019
Space 22, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy
Likely Stories, The Clemente Center, NYC
2018
Benefit Auction for Pat Berran, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Summer of Love, Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC
2017
Domestic Seen, German Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
Skyway, A Contemporary Collaboration, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Vatic Utterance, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Prove It All Night, Carolyn Wilson Gallery, USF Sculpture Faculty, Tampa, FL
2016
Texas Contemporary International Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Houston, TX
2015
Moving Image, Istanbul Biennal
Your Bad Self, Arts + Leisure Gallery, NYC
OOF Collective, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Of a Feather, Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN
Florida Prize, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Enticing Luminosity, Leslie Heller Gallery, NYC
2013
Slumping Towards Bethlehem, Untitled Art Fair, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
The Dirty Dozen, Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC
Satyrs and Centaurs, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC
Artists in Residence, Biennial, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2011
From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
Wild Beasts, Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX
The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NYC
Paper, Sue Scott Gallery, NYC
Matinee, St. Cecilias Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2010
VIdeo Art Replay, Part 2 Every Day Imaginary, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Metallica, Monyo Rowe Gallery, NYC
Lush Life, on Stellar Rays Gallery, NYC
Lush Life, Invisible Exports Gallery, NYC
Fresh From Chelsea, UCF Gallery, Orlando, FL
Animated Screen, CPH PIX, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC
Mixing It Up, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, NYC
Oberhausen International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2008
Titled/Untitled, Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland
2007
Distinctive Messenger, House of Campari, Miami Basel
Extremes & In Between, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
AniMotion, F15 Galleri, Oslo, Norway
Warhol &…, Kantor/ Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
School Days, Jack Wilton Gallery, NYC
2004
Plane Space Gallery, NYC
Salad Days, Artist Space, NYC
Pictionary, Kravets/ Wehby Gallery, NYC
Happy Endings, King Fisher Projects, Ridgewood, NY
2003
All That Was Not Than, Year Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017
Weekend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
RESIDENCIES
2020
DNA Gallery Artist’s Residency, Provincetown, MA
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
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2022
Hyperallergic, “The Artists to Know(and Bring Home) Now”, Sight Unseen x Platform
Daily Beast, “Florida’s Super Rich Evacuate Their A…” quotes included in article. 9/28
2018
Lawrence, Nick. “Summer of Love”, Full color catalogue
2017
Indrisek, Scott. “Let’s begin with a tale of two captains…”, Ezra Johnson Selected Works Published by Freight + Volume NYC
“Weekend, at Mindy Solomon Gallery,” Wall Street International, Dec 8, 2017
Morris, David. “Ezra Johnson’s Cap’n Crunch – Florida Takes Manhattan,” Creative Pinellas, Oct 20
Chapin, James. “Tiki bars and transit grids: The Tampa edition of Skyway at Tampa Museum of Art.” Creative Loafing, Aug 8, 2017
2016
Ollman, Leah.” Wonder and Despair, Frame by Frame, The Stirring Animations of Ezra Johnson” LA Times
Self, Dana. “The Time of Tall Statues,” Nerman Museum of Art, essay accompanying exhibition
Miami Rail, Ezra Johnson: Cut Rate Paradise, (March 2016) Erin Thurlow
2015
Maine,Stephen. “Ezra Johnson at Freight + Volume.” Artnews, Reviews Jan 1
2014
Simmons, William J. “Evoking the Erotics of the Art Object.” Hyperallergic, Oct 27
Mulford, Hansen. “Florida Prize.” Orlando Museum of Art, catalogue essay
Schwendener, Martha. “NADA Preview,” The New York Times, (Color photo)
2013
Trigg, Sarah. “Studio Life, Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process.” Princeton Architectural Press
2012
De Balincourt, Jules. “100 Artists To Watch (#13)” Modern Painter Magazine
2010
Cotter, Holland. “Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times.” The New York Times, July 8
Esplund, Lance. “The Usual Suspects.” The Wall Street Journal, October
Art Critical, Karley Klopfenstein, “Nine Chapters of Lush Life, a novel by Richard Price”
Belasco, Daniel. “Site Santa Fe, Eighth International Biennial,” Exhibition Catalogue essay.
Bui, Phong. “Site Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial: The Dissolve.” The Brooklyn Rail,
Miller, Randall. “The Dissolve.” Art Practical, July 12, 2010
2009
Hamel, Corentin. “A Gentleman’s Painter among Bohemians.” La New Galerie De France,
2008
Ronan, John. “Titled/Untitled, “Ezra Johnson: What Visions Burn” (Catalogue essay)
2007
Danbrot,Shana Nys. “Motion Pictures: Ezra Johnson.” Art Review Magazine, March
Willis, Holly. “Signal to Noise: What Visions Burn.” LA Weekly, February 7
Tumler, Jan. “Ezra Johnson: What Visions Burn”, UCLA Hammer Museum, exhibition brochure.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. “An Unlikely Coupling: There’s something in the woodshed… The Times of London,
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 1
MUSEUM AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro, Fundación AMMA, Mexico City
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ezra Johnson: Sunday Morning Coming Down
February 24 - March 30, 2024
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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