John Sousa

John lives and has a studio in Springboro, Ohio. He was a National Scholastic Art Scholar and graduated with a BFA from Bradley University in 1982. John was one of the featured artists in issues #167 and #149, Midwest edition, of New American Paintings. John has exhibited his work in a dozen states across the country; most recently: The Painting Center in New York, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, Grace Albrecht Art Gallery Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH, Riffe Gallery in Columbus, OH, UC Blue Ash College Gallery in Blue Ash, OH, the Museum of New Art in Armada, MI, and the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. He has received two Montgomery County Art Fellowships and was awarded an AIA Grant by Summerfair in 2014.

John Sousa is a mixed-media artist whose long-term focus has been on language, photography, and how we perceive and infer meaning. He has always been concerned with the formal qualities of art and is constantly pushing the bounds of the materials he uses. John aspires to create art that is intelligent and more than just visual.

BFA Bradley University

Solo Exhibitions:
2024 “John Sousa - Chaos Fields” Art Lab Gallery, Dayton, OH 2018 "Reconstructions" Grace Albrecht Art Gallery, Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH
Two & Three Person Exhibitions: 2024 “Contemplating Heaven and Earth - Shawna Hatton & John Sousa” Springboro Performing Arts Center, Springboro, OH 2022 "Darren Haper & John Sousa - Appropriate Everything" Wilmington College - Boyd Cultural Arts Center, Wilmington, OH 2021 "Appropriate Everything - John Sousa & Darren Haper" Art Access Gallery Bexley, OH 2019 "The Dayton Connection - New Work by Mike Elsass, Darren Haper & John Sousa" Art Access Gallery Bexley, OH 2016 “Navigation: Personal and Geographical Landscape" Tracy Longley-Cook, Denise Eagleson Greenberg, John Sousa at Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH,
2012 “Abstractions” Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH
Group Exhibitions: 2023 “Volume UP: Artists Responding to Music and Sound” The Painting Center, New York, NY, Curator: Monica King 2023 Disrupting the Norm” Springboro Performing Arts Center, Springboro, OH, Curator: Hyacinth Paul, Ph.D 2023 “Visual Poetry Today” DIAD Gallery, Dayton, OH, Curator: Chris Reynolds 2020 “Stillness and Receptivity” Indian Hill Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Curator: Casey D...