Ezra Johnson
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Solo Exhibitions
2020 Upcoming- Solo Exhibition Opening May 28 @ Freight + Volume Gallery, NYC.
2019 Crosstown Arts, Memphis Tennessee, Screening survey of Stop-Frame Animations
2018 Mindy Solomon Gallery, “Floating on Top” Miami, December 2018
2017 Freight & Volume Gallery, “Cap’n Crunch” New York, NY
Volta Art Fair, (Solo Presentation) “Janitors Closet” New York, NY
2016 Arts + Leisure Gallery, “Angry Sea” New York, NY
Young Projects Gallery, “Ezra Johnson Painted Animations 2006-2016” Los Angeles
2015 Mindy Solomon Gallery, “Cut Rate Paradise” Miami, FL
2014 Freight & Volume Gallery, “It’s Under the Thingy” New York, NY
NADA Art Fair, (Solo Presentation) “Der, Die, Das” New York, NY
Festival for Contemporart Arts, Pianello, Val Tidone, Italy. Curated by Paolo Baldacci
2012 Freight And Volume Gallery, "Five Kinds Of Light" New York, NY
2011 New Galerie, “A Ship to Sing a Song To” Paris, France
2009 New Galerie, “A Gentleman's Painter Among Bohemians” Paris, France
2008 DIA Center, “Wrestling the Blob Beast,” curated by Lynn Cooke, New York, NY
2007 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, “What Birds Remember if They Do Remember”, NYC NY
Hammer Museum UCLA, “What Visions Burn” Hammer Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
Galeria Glance, "Lost To Begin" Torino, Italy
2006 Hunter College MFA Exhibition, “What Visions Burn” New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2020 Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Florida, Skyway
2019 Federico Luger Gallery, Space 22 in Milan Italy
The Clemente Center, NYC “Likely Stories”
2018 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, “Benefit Auction for Pat Berran”
Freight + Volume Gallery, “Summer of Love”
2017 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, “Domestic Seen,” 2016-2017, Kansas
Tampa Museum of Art, “Skyway, A Contemporary Collaberation”
Trestle Gallery, “Vatic Utterance,” curated by Sam Jablon, Brooklyn, NY
Carolyn Wilson Gallery, USF Sculpture Faculty, “Prove It All Night,” curated by John Byrd
2016 Texas Contemporary International Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 Istanbul Biennial, “Moving Image,” Sept 4-7
Arts + Leisure Gallery, “Your Bad Self”, New York, NY
OOF Collective, Curated by Jennifer Levonian, Philadelphia, University of the Arts
2014 Ewing Gallery of Art, “Of a Feather” curated by T. Michael Martin, Knoxville, TN
Orlando Museum of Art, “Florida Prize,” Orlando, FL
Leslie Heller Gallery, “Enticing Luminosity” curated by Olive Ayhens, New York, NY
2013 Untitled Art Fair, “Slumping Towards Bethlehem”, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012 Freight and Volume Gallery, "The Dirty Dozen", curated by Nick Lawrence, NYC
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “Satyrs and Centaurs,” New York, NY
University of Tennessee, “Artists In Residence, Biennial,” Knoxville, TN
2011 Pepin Moore, "From Where You Just Arrived" Los Angeles, CA
Champion Contemporary, "Wild Beasts", Austin, TX
Asya Geisberg Gallery, “The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep”, New York, NY
Sue Scott Gallery, “Paper”, New York, NY
St. Cecilias Convent, “Matinee”, curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Institute for Contemporary Art, “Video Art Replay, Part 2. Every Day Imaginary” Philadelphia, PA
SITE Santa Fe, “Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms”, Santa Fe, NM
Monya Rowe Gallery, “Metallica”, curated by Patrick Brennan, New York, NY
On Stellar Rays Gallery, “Lush Life,” New York, NY
Invisible Exports Gallery, “Lush Life”, curated by Franklin Evans, New York, NY
UCF Gallery, University of Central Florida, “Fresh From Chelsea,” Orlando, FL
CPH PIX, “Animated Screen”, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, “20 Years”, New York, NY
Leubsdorf Gallery, “Mixing It Up”, Hunter College, New York, NY
Oberhausen International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2008 Lismore Castle, “Titled/Untitled”, County Waterford, Ireland
2007 House of Campari, “Distinctive Messengers,” curated by Simon Watson, Miami Basel
Dorsky Gallery, Extremes & In Betweens,” Long Island City, NY
F15 Galleri, “AniMotion,” curated by Elisabeth Byre, Oslo, Norway
Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Warhol &....,” Los Angeles, CA
2006 Jack Tilton Gallery, “School Days,” New York, NY
2004 Plane Space Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Space, “Salad Days,” curated by Nicole Russo, New York, NY
Kravets/ Wehby Gallery, “Pictionary”, New York, NY
King Fisher Projects, “Happy Endings,” curated by Matt Fisher, Ridgewood, NY
2003 Year Gallery, “All That Was Not Than,” Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Projects
2017 “Weekend” Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL December 2017
Selected Reviews and Publications
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 2003- 2017” 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 / Institutional Collections
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Residencies
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
Education
2006 Hunter College, MFA, New York, NY
2000 California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA, San Francisco, CA
Teaching
2010-2011 Visiting Artist Teaching Fellowship, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2013-Now University of South Florida, Tampa
A tour of Ezra Johnson, Painted Animations 2006-2016. Young Projects Gallery, LA