Born in 1977 in Chicago, IL, he grew up in an Afrocentric family which influenced many of his ideas about identity. After earning a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2000, he went on to receive an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Johnson first rose to prominence at the age of 21, when he participated in the seminal group exhibition “Freestyle” at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has since been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth in New York and the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis. Today the artist’s works can be found among the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Johnson currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

 

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