Kysa Johnson – CV
Education
1994 Skidmore College - Fine Art Major
1997 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland -
Fine Art Specializing in Drawing and Painting
Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) fellowship
Emmy Sachs Prize
Solo Exhibitions and Biennials
2024 Life Cycles - How Do We Live On Earth - Subatomic Decay Patterns with Stars,
Sea, and Stems - Three Site Specific Murals for Watertown Exploratory Labs,
Watertown, MA
2023 Eat The Sun, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Necessary Beauty, Scott Miller Projects, Birmingham AL
2021 Ghosts In Common, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston TX
2020 The Light in Space, MOAH Lancaster, Lancaster, CA
2019 CRUDE , Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX
2017 As Above, So Below, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 blow up 298 - landscape continuum - subatomic decay patterns /
-13,000 +2000, Grace Farms Foundation, New Canaan, CT
2015 The Long Goodbye, Morgan Lehman Gallery New York, NY
2014 blow up 250 - "Be it ever so humble" - subatomic decay pattern
after Wyandanch, Payne and Rennert, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
2013 blow up 203 - subatomic decay patterns after Piranesi's Ruins and
Waiting Room (Bank of America) Armory Show, New York, NY
Empire Loop, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York NY
2011 Terrible Beauty, Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, WY
Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin Ireland
2009 After the Fall, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York NY
Second Biennial of the Canary Islands: Art, Architecture and
Landscape curated by Christian Viveros-Faune, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2008 Kysa Johnson, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville CT
Unseen, Roebling Hall, New York, NY
2007 Kysa Johnson: Blow Ups—Spores, Pollen, and Pollutants, Aldrich
Museum, Ridgefield CT
2005 Kysa Johnson, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn NY
2004 Macro/ Microscapes, National Academy of Science, Washington DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 In the Middle With You - Middle Room Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2022 Untitled - Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art
Intersect Aspen - Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art
2021 Expo Chicago - Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art
Dallas Art Fair - Morgan Lehman Gallery
Intersect Aspen - Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art
2020 This is America / Art USA Today - Kunsthalle Kade, Amersfoort NL
Cosmic Culture : Intersections of Art and Outer Space, Science Museum
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
The World Is Never Still - Binder Of Women, Virtual
οὐ τόπος / εὖ τόπος - Outono Project, Los Angeles, CA
Binder of Women IF EVERYTHING IS AN OUTRAGE - Track 16
2019 A Store Show - Odd Art LA, Los Angeles, CA
Binder of Women 2 - The Pit LA, Glendale, CA
The Flat Files, The Pit LA, Glendale, CA
Vision Boards, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Color Out of Space, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Heat Wave (with the Binder of Women), Guerrero Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Dragnet, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Good Smoke/Good Poke (with the Binder of Women), 0-0 LA,
Los Angeles, CA
Tick-Tock: Time in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery,
New York, NY
2017 Binder of Women, The Pit LA, Los Angeles
Look Me In The Eye Sister, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Echo Location, ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
Dick Pics, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Kysa Johnson / Anne Lilly, Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2016 Southland, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Medium:Religion, University of Central Missouri Museum of Art and
Design, Warrensburg, MO
Girl Trip, The Lodge, Los Angeles CA
The Art of Now, Hearst Galleries, New York, NY
2015 Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping; from Mystic Diagrams
to Data Visualizations, Cerritos College, Long Beach CA
The Fire Next Time, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Sampling, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Weird Science, Kunsthalle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Elegant Solutions, with Laura Battle and Harold Granucci,
Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY
2013 Eastern Standard, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill NY
2012 Sitelines, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
“Unfolding Patterns” Dorsky Gallery Queens, NY
Festival International Del Artes 2012, Costa Rica
View from Outerspace from an Aquarium, Famous Accountants Gallery,
Brooklyn NY
2011 The Peterson Collection , New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Wall Works DeCordova Museum Lincoln, MA
The Cambrian Explosian, Zora Art Space, Brooklyn NY
Terminal Jest, Delaware County Community College
2010 Mapping, Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art,
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
Opening Ceremony, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York NY
Paintbox Leaves, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY
Land(e)scape, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich CT
Botanica, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ
2009 Dis/Believer – Intersections of Science and Religion in Contemporary
Art, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College
Hudson River Project, Tang Museum Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs,NY
Painting is Thinking, Standpoint Gallery, with Anna Gathman, London,
UK
2008 Interior Ritual, KK Projects, New Orleans, LA
Passed as Present, York Art Gallery, York England
2007 The Elements – Air, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfeild CT
Flash Pop, NYFA New York, NY
2006 Psychoideology, Roebling Hall Chelsea NY
Assemblage II, Museum 52, London UK
Texas Firehouse, Brooklyn NY
Design For Public Space, New York, NY
2005 El Greco, Islip Museum, Islip NY
Origin Mother and Child, Ferragamo Gallery Space, NY
The Exploding of Plastic Invisible, Bergdorf Goodman Men’s Store, NY
2004 NADA Benefit Auction, New York, NY
2003 Winter Auction – Dumbo Arts Center Dumbo Brooklyn, NY
2002 Woman Artists Past and Present, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg
College, Allentown PA
Surround, Free Gallery Glasgow, Scotland
2001 Big Names, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
The Rebellion of Space, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Local Color, Martin Art Gallery Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1998 Members Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Scotland
1997 European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Invitational Exhibition, Royal Scottish
Academy, Edinburgh Scotland
Public Commissions
Installation for the Concourse Level of the Empire State Building
Public Collections
Google
MIT
Falcons Stadium Atlanta
Progressive Collection
Fidelity
Deutsche Bank
Microsoft
Memorial Sloane Kettering
Richard Massey Foundation
Tiffany
Lodeveans Collection
Muhlenberg College
Cummins Diesel
Credit Suisse
Gunvor USA
Wellington Management
Related
The Allbright
US Embassy Art Program
Selected Bibliography
2020 Art and Cake, “Collective Binder of Women Shows Deep Breadth”, Track 16
Review, March 24th
2018 San Francisco Chronicle, “ A Final Goodbye to Summer Art Exhibitions” Charles
Desmarais, Aug 24th
2017 Fabrik Magazine, “ Von Lintel Gallery, Kysa Johnson “ As Above, So Below” Molly
Enholm, Oct 18th
Fast Company “This Artist Uses Subatomic Particles to Paint the Cosmos”, Meg
Miller, July 24
Art and Cake LA “Kysa Johnson and Joachim Schulz at Von Lintel Gallery” Sara
Fortson, July 23
Hyperallergic “ Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay”,
Daniel Gerwin July 20
Art and Cake LA “Echo Location at Eastside International”, Lorraine Heitzman,
March 10
2015 Wall Street International “The Long Goodbye”, Daniel Gauss, September 10
2014 Interview Magazine “Kysa Johnson's Atomic Art”, Rachel Small, February
Vice Creator’s Project “Turning The Science Behind String Theory Into
Immersive Murals”, Laura
Feinstein, March 1
Miami Design District New York “Artist Spotlight: Kysa Johnson”, Shana Beth
Mason, March
2013 ArtInfo, Kysa Johnson’s Cosmic Bank Office is a Showstopper, Ben Davis, March 7
Artinfo, Armory Show - The Movies, David D’Arcy March 8
Artsy.com – Best of the Artsy Armory at the Armory Show
Arts Observer – 10 Must See Installations at the Armory Show, March 7
Gallery Intell – A New York City Artist Reinvents Piranesi for the 21st Century,
March 5
Wallpaper – The Armory Show at the Piers 92 and 94
Societe Perrier – 10 Works of Art We Wish We could Take Home From The Armory
Show
The Standard – Wanderlust Chronicles – Armory Arts Week 2013
ArtForum.com, Scene and Herd – Steppin’ Up, Linda Yablonsky, March 9
Art Daily – Centennial New York Armory Show opens with 214 exhibitors, March
6
Bullett – In its 100th Year, The Armory Show Returns To Its Roots
2011 Artforum.com, Scene and Heard "Dublin Up" by Gemma Tipton
Irish Times, 23rd June 2011, "Will Dublin Contemporary Draw in the Punters?"
Article by Aidan Dunne
The Sunday Times Ireland, September 18th 2011, "Everything is Not Illuminated",
Review by Cristin Leach
Architecture Ireland October 2011, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Review
Irish Arts Review September 2011, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Review by Mic
Moroney
2009 Truthful Enthusiasm: Discussing Contemporary Issues through the Arts – Review
“Dis/Believer”
Review by Matthew Cunningham
Time Out Chicago – Issue 249, Dec 3rd-9th Review “Dis/Believer” Review by
Lauren Weinberg
H Art International – “The London Art Scene Moves Away from Big Money
Conceptualism, Painting Re-emerges” article
including “Painting is Thinking” at Standpoint Gallery
2008 The Gambit Weekly New Orleans - August 5th Review "House Holds Objects"
Review by D. Eric Bookhard
Art Exit – Sept. 10th, Featured Artist
2005 New York Times – March 20th Review “ Getting in Touch with that Inner El
Greco” Review by Helena Harrison
Art Forum – April Issue, Review of Kysa Johnson at Roebling Hall by Jeffrey
Kastner, Pg.191
New Yorker – Feb 14th and 21st, Review of Kysa Johnson at Roebling Hall, Pg.
64
New York Magazine – Feb 7th, Art Pick Kysa Johnson at Roebling Hall, Pg. 94
2003 New American Paintings #44 – Curated by Charlotta Kotik of the Brooklyn
Museum of Art