Tatiana Johnson

Tatiana Johnson creates lens-based textile works that inhabit the space between photography and sculpture. Her current body of work explores sublimation transfer on layered fabric—image-bearing surfaces that hold light, memory, and emotion in porous suspension. Each piece is hand-constructed, stitched, and stretched, forming quiet alchemical compositions where photographic traces dissolve into translucency.

This new series of five works marks a turning point in Johnson’s practice: a movement toward tactile image-making rooted in impermanence, atmosphere, and frame disruption. Her work invites slow looking—into soft thresholds of presence, light, and breath.

Johnson holds an MFA from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her work has been exhibited internationally in Switzerland, the U.S.A., and China. Past works were licensed via Saatchi Art for inclusion in a U.S. hotel project led by then-chief curator Rebecca Wilson.

2022-2025 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland. Admitted 'sur dossier.'

2020-2022 Foundations in Art & Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland.

2005 Associate in Arts at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL, U.S.A. Graduated with 'high honors.'

2025 *All Dimensions* MFA graduation exhibition at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland.

2024 *Espace de Refusé.e.x.s.* at Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne, Switzeraland.

2024 *At the premises of* at Enterprise, Zurich, Switzerland.

2022 *Big, small, and many* group exhibition at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland.

2021   *Berührung* group exhibition in Gallerie 2 at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland.

2021 *PHOTO 20* (annual exhibition of Swiss photography) in Zurich, Switzerland.

2020 'Japan: imprints on my soul' solo exhibition at Amami am Walensee, in Walenstadt, Switzerland.