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RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021  NO STONE UNTURNED, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2020  X = TIME, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

2019  SEE WHAT I MEAN, Eyes On Main, Los Angeles, CA

2018  IT’S ABOUT TIME, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016  SIDESHOW SIEM REAP, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2015  NO STONE UNTURNED, Wildwood School, Los Angeles, CA

2015  WAVE LENGTHS, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015  TIMELINES, Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, CA

2015   PHOTO LA 2015, Los Angeles, CA

2014 EN LA MADRIX, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla, MX

2014 LINEA DEL TIEMPO, Palacio Municipal, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla, MX

2014 #inwheeltime, MOPLA. LUCIE Foundation, Los Angeles, CA USA

2014   PHOTO LA 2014, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2013 NO SUCH PLACE, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2013 PHOTO LA 2013, Los Angeles, CA USA

2012 NO SUCH PLACE, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney  AU

2012 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Christ Church, Oxford University  UK

2012 SPACETIME: Beyond the Constraints of Perception. UCLA Cotsen Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA

2012 PHOTO LA 2012, Los Angeles, CA USA

2011 TEMPO LINEARE, La Botte Ristorante, Los Angeles  CA USA

2011 EL ANARQUISTA Y EL AUTOMOVIL, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2011 MOTION STUDIES, Kunstforum Essenheim, Esseheim  DE

2011 VENICE SPACEWALK, Venice Family Clinic & Animal West, Los Angeles, CA USA

2010 VENICE SPACEWALK, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA USA

2009 SCOPE BASEL 09, Galerie Deschler, Basel  CH

2009 PRISCILLA ELECTRIC LODGE, German Consulate, Basel  CH

2009 SPACETIME, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2008 SWEPT AWAY, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2008 NEW WORK HAMBURG, aplanat Galerie für Photography, Hamburg  DE

2007 MOTION STUDIES, aplanat Galerie für Photografie, Hamburg  DE

2007 MOTION STUDIES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2007 TEMPO LINEARE, Cetona, Toscana, IT

2007 TAICHI MOTION STUDIES, aplanat Galerie für Fotographie, Hamburg  DE


RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2019  PHOTO LA 2019, Los Angeles, CA

2018  DIGITAL LANDSCAPES, Villa Franke, Potsdam DE

2018  VELVET LAND, ÄŒerná labuÅ¥ Gallery, Prague, CZ

2018  BETWEEN TWO SEAS, M.A.A.A.C.Museum, Cisternino, Puglia, IT

2018  SCHWARZ/WEISS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE

2018  VENICE ART WALK & AUCTIONS, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2018  ART HISTORY, INTERRUPTED, CMay Galley, Los Angeles, CA

2017  KAIROS CASTLE, Kasteel Van Gaasbeek, Lennik, BE

2017  MUSIC AND ART RESOUND, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA

2017  PHOTO LA 2017, Los Angeles, CA

2017  FOCAL PLANES, Chungking Studios, Los Angeles, CA

2016  ALTERED REALITY, Weisman Art Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA

2016  WINTER SETTING, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE

2016  KUNST 16 ZURICH, Galerie Deschler, Zurich CZ

2015  MADE IN CALIFORNIA, Weisman Art Foundation,Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL

2015  ETHEREAL, William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015  GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2015  SUMMER SETTING, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2014 MIGRATIONS, Palacio Municipal, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla, MX

2014 IMPERMANCE, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2014 LINEA DEL TIEMPO, Palacio Municipal, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla, MX

2014 LA ART SHOW, Art All Ways, Los Angeles, CA USA

2014 GALLERY WEEKEND, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2013 SNAP! ORLANDO, Orlando, FL  US

2013 LEBBEUS WOODS, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA  USA

2013 LUMINOUS, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA  USA

2013 ARTIST OF THE GALLERY, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2012 IN THE WOODS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2012 IN THE PICTURES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2012 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard

2012 SCOPE BASEL 2012, Galerie Deschler, Basel  CH

2012 VENICE ART WALK & AUCTIONS, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2012 ONE SHOT THE CITY The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2012 ART FOR CLAIRE, Santa Monica, CA  USA

2012 ARTWORKS FOR THE CURE, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2012 WINTER SETTING, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE

2011 PREVIEW BERLIN, Berlin  DE

2011 SCOPE BASEL 2011, Galerie Deschler, Basel  CH

2011 SOLID STRIPES, LAUNCH LA,Los Angeles, CA  USA

2011 ART FOR CLARE, Santa Monica, CA  USA

2011 PHOTO LA 2011, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2011 IN THE PICTURES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2011 CULTURE, ART, TECHNOLOGY, Sixth College, University of California at San Diego, CA   USA

2011 ART KARLSRUHE, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe  DE

2010 ELEMENTS OF NATURE, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA  USA

2010 TECHNICAL MATTERS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE

2010 CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL, 2010, Istanbul  TK

2010 SHFT.com, Estee Lauder, New York City  USA

2010 PREVIEW BERLIN, Berlin  DE

2010 SWELL: art 1950 2010 Metro Pictures, Nyehaus, Friedrich Petzel, NYC  USA

2010 NEW DEPARTURES, Galerie Deschler, Berlin DE

2010 ART KARLSRUHE, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe  DE

2010 SCOPE BASEL 2010, Galerie Deschler, Basel  CH

2010 VENICE ART WALK & AUCTIONS, Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2010  PHOTOS AND PHANTASY, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2010 SHFT.com, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2010 CHARITYBUZZ AUCTION, Christie’s, NYC, NY  USA

2009 ART KARLSRUHE, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe  DE

2009 PHOTO LA 2009, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2009 SUMMER SETTING, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2008 PHOTOS AND PHANTASYFrederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA  USA

2008 PHOTO LA 2008, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2008 UNSTKORPERLICH, Kunsthalle, Osnabruck  DE

2008 ART KARLSRUHE, Galerie Deschler, Karlsruhe  DE

2007 PHOTO LA 2007, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  USA

2007 TRIBUTE TO IRVING PENN, apalant Galerie für Photografie, Hamburg  DE

2007 TECHNICAL MATTERS, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE

2007 TRIBUTE TO IRVING PENN,  aplanat Galerie für Fotographie, Hamburg  DE

2006 WINTER SETTING, Galerie Deschler, Berlin  DE


ARTWORK IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago

BUNDESTAG (German Parliament) Reichstag Building, Berlin DE

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS, Los Angeles CA

COLBURN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Los Angeles CA

FIDELITY CORPORATE ART COLLECTION, Boston MA

ALISON AND PETER KLEIN, MUSEUM KUNSTWERK, Eberdingen  DE

INSTITUTO MUNICIPAL DE ARTE Y CULTURAL DE PUEBLA, Puebla MX

LANGEN FOUNDATION, Hombroich  DE

MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION, Santa Monica  CA

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York City NY

PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, Phoenix  AZ

SIMMS / MANN FAMILY FOUNDATION, Los Angeles CA

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington D.C.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Division of Political History, Washington D.C.

FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION, Los Angeles CA

ZENTRUM FÜR KUNST UND MEDIENTENOLOGIE, Karlsruhe  DE





SELECTED QUOTATIONS

“Jay Mark Johnson’s remarkable photographs of waves possess the same insistent energy and drama that I find in the great seascapes of J.M.W.Turner currently on view at the Getty Museum.”

— Christopher Finch, artist, author

 

“Johnson’s work applies the methods of modular repetition associated with ‘minimalist’ composers such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich to photographic imagery — with the same fluid grace and delight in patterning found in that music.”

— Peter Frank, art critic, editor

 

“Johnson’s pictures look nothing like the world as we know it, and they are not really meant to. Yet still, their brain-melting relationship to the truth remains unassailable. The best thing to do is just relax, and let art and science blow your mind.”

— Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, editor

 

“A provocative blend of lyricism and scientific scrutiny, perhaps the most exciting aspect of Johnson’s photography is that it tugs photography away from the gravitational pull of Euclidean documentation–which has dominated the field since its beginnings–and prods it towards new and ambitious aesthetic and intellectual goals”.

— Christopher Finch, artist, author

 

“Johnson uses these wonderful and striking renderings of familiar scenes to tell his story in new and imaginative ways. He has made the rare marriage of art and science to create something new and truly special.”

— Barry C. Barish – 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics

 

“American artist, Jay Mark Johnson has developed an amazing and unconventional approach to photography. His “Spacetime“ images function like timelines: the motives are captured during a certain span of time, thus merging the recording of space and time into a single, linear “spacetime” continuum…”

— Simone Kraft, writer, editor

 

“Johnson’s work offers an artistic exploration and rethinking of the relationship between humans, our machines, and the natural world.”

— Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias, author, editor

 

“We use lightning fast technologies to speak with each other, collapsing the space and time that separate us. Fortunately, we still move our bodies around at a slower pace, allowing us to experience distinct places and, with them, our distinct identities.”

— Jay Mark Johnson

 

“We surround ourselves with machines. They shape our experiences, and with them, our thoughts. We travel in cars, trains and planes, encapsulated in tiny vessels, isolated from the outside world. And the faster we race across the landscape, the more it becomes a blur.”

— Jay Mark Johnson

 

“Am I dreaming some impossible dream? Or just taking a reading with my spacetime machine?”

— Jay Mark Johnson

 


ADDITIONAL WORK OF RELEVANCE

THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE ART (1983-1994)

1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA  USA

1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Highways, Los Angeles, CA  USA

1994 THE OTHER WEAPON (McCauley) Seward Hall, University of California at Los Angeles,  CA  USA

1987 INDIAN BLOOD (McCauley) The Kitchen, NYC, NY  USA

1986 THE HOUR BEFORE MY BROTHER DIES (Keene) Interart Theatre, NYC, NY  USA

1986 WHAT’S UP ZACK? (Purdy) Laight Again Club, NYC, NY  USA

1986 MY GRANDFATHER AND THE WARS (McCaulley) Henry Street Settlement, NYC, NY  USA

1984 MY FATHER BELONGED TO THE FBI BUT I WAS A SOVIET SPY (Zonzinzky) The Kitchen, NYC, NY  USA

1984 RANCHO NOTORIOUS (Lang) The Pyramid Club, NYC, NY  USA

1983 LOCAL STIGMATIC (H. Williams) Laight Again Club, NYC, NY  USA

1983 THE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF SLAVES, (Altomare) The Pyramid Club, NYC, NY  USA

1982 THE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF SLAVES, (Altomare)Theatre For a New CIty, NYC, NY  USA


PRINT GRAPHICS (1983-1994)

1992 – 94   COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY, Cover Art, Editorial Cartoons, etc Washington D.C.  USA

1984 – 88   BLACK CAT GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE, Political Posters, Silkscreen, NYC NY  USA

1986 – 89   CENTRO LIBRE DE EXPERIMENTACION TEATRAL Y ARTISTICA, Mexico D.F. MX

1986 WOMEN OF ALL RED NATIONS,  Political Posters, Silkscreen, NYC, NY  USA

1984 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, Political Cartoons, NYC, NY  USA

1984 DECEMBER 12TH COALITION, Graphics, Banners, NYC, NY  USA

1983 POSTCARD ACTION, Mail Art Project, NYC, NY  USA

1982 – 83 EL SALVADOR MEDIA PROJECT, Graphics, NYC, NY  USA

INDEPENDENT VIDEO PRODUCTION – NARRATIVE, DOCUMENTARY, P.S.A.

1993 OZONE (Greenpeace) Director, Bombshell Productions, Los Angeles, CA  USA

1990 – 91 PUBLICART, Director, Political Campaigns, Commercials, San Salvador, SV

1987 – 89 COLLECTIVO DE CINE POPULAR – FUEGO NUEVO, Director, Mexico D.F. MX

1984 XCHANGE TV, Co-founder, Political Documentaries, Manhattan Cable, NYC, NY


ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (1979 – 1984)

1984 BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Dymaxion House (1927), Smithsonian Institution, Wash. D.C.  USA

1982-84 MICHAEL FIELDMAN PARTNERS, Design, Drawings, Paintings, New York City NY  USA

1982-84 LEBBEUS WOODS, Drawings, Models, NYC, NY  USA

1980-81 PETER EISENMAN, Drawings, Models, NYC, NY  USA

1980-81 ALDO ROSSI, Drawings, Paintings, Models, Milano, IT


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