Kysa Johnson was born in Illinois in 1974, and trained at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Johnson has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT), The National Academy of Sciences (Washington, DC), Roebling Hall Gallery (New York, NY), and The Nicolaysen Museum (Casper, WY). She has been featured in a number of group shows including exhibitions at The 2nd Biennial of the Canary Islands, the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY), the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY), DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA), and Standpoint Gallery (London, UK). Johnson has created site-specific installations for KK Projects in New Orleans, LA (2008), Dublin Contemporary in Ireland (2011), and for the New York Armory Show, (2013). She is a 2003 NYFA fellow, 2009 Pollack Krasner Grant recipient, and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Ghosts In Common - Cambrian Explosion - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Wildflowers 16, 2024
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Ghosts In Common - Eat The Sun - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Farm Flowers 4 , 2024
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Ghosts In Common - Necessary Beauty - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Farm Flowers 2, 2023
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Ghosts In Common - Ring O’, Ring O’ Roses - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Herb Garden 5995, 2023
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Ghosts In Common - 1348/ 2022 (Fill Your Empty Sun With Flowers) - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Wildflowers 1, 2022
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Ghosts In Common - 1348/2022 (Death Becomes Her) - Subatomic Decay Patterns and Garden 12, 2022
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blow up 401 - CRUDE (metamorphosis) - phytoplankton and the chemical components of petroleum after Monet, 2020
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blow up 406 - the long goodbye -Crude - the creation of hydrocarbons in the Horsehead Nebula, 2020
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blow up 378 - CRUDE - the physical history of oil - phytoplankton and chemical components of petroleum after Monet’s Water Lilies, 2019
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Texas Contemporary 2015
Houston, TX 1 - 4 Oct 2015GROUP Presentation of Works By: rubens ghenov kysa johnson Nancy lorenz Jason Middlebrook Laurie Reid KATIA SANTibañez Paul VillinskiRead more -
Dallas Art Fair 2015
Dallas, TX 9 - 12 Apr 2015Three-Person Presentation of Works By: Kysa Johnson Jason Middlebrook AARON WAXLERRead more -
Miami Project Art Fair 2014
Miami, FL 2 - 7 Dec 2014Group Presentation of Works By: kysa johnson Nancy lorenz david Rathman laurie reid paul villinski Paul WackersRead more -
Texas Contemporary 2014
Houston, TX 4 - 7 Sep 2014GROUP Presentation of Works By: kysa johnson kim mccarty Nancy lorenz cordy ryman Paul Villinski aaron waxlerRead more
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Art & Life with Kysa Johnson
Voyage LA, September 10, 2018 -
Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay
Daniel Gerwin, Hyperallergic, July 20, 2017 -
Kysa Johnson. The Long Goodbye
Daniel Gauss, Meer, September 10, 2015 -
Kysa Johnson’s Atomic Art
Rachel Small, Interview, February 24, 2014