Mary A Johnson

Mary A. Johnson is an American artist who lives and works in Beijing.

She creates work using organic materials and digital images; reminiscent of petri dishes, forgotten refrigerators, and Flemish still lives. Her work engages the gaps between the repulsive and the seductive; the image and experience.

She has shown her work in the United States and China. Her work is in numerous private collections. Recently, she was invited to participate in ArtNova's "100" Exhibition at the Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing and to be a part of the Snow Mountain Artist Residency in Lijiang, the UNESCO World Heritage site in China's Yunnan Province.

She is a full time Lecturer at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

MFA, SUNY University at Buffalo: 2013
BA, [Fine Art: Painting] Gordon College: 2008

Selected Exhibitions (* Indicates solo)

2016 Art Inspires Science: Food; Art & Science Collaborations; New York Hall of Science; New York
2016 S/LASH; Art Nova 100; Agricultural Center, Beijing, China
2016 ICAF Gallery Space, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2014 57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art; Juried by Jerry Saltz, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY
2013 Generatione Nostra est Scriptor Minas (Our Generation’s Menace), Castellani Museum, Niagara, NY*
2012 VelvetPutrescence, Installation/Performance, Silo City, Buffalo, NY*
2012 Catacombia, Collaborative Performance, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2011 A Questionable Dinner, Installation/ Performance, Ellicott Island Park, Tonawanda, NY*
2011 ButterFile, Visual Studies Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2010 Remnants of a Life Undercover, 464 Gallery, Buffalo, NY*

Selected Bibliography/Publications

Forthcoming: Provisional Title: "Women Collagists", Promopress Editions, Madrid, Spain; expected Winter 2019
"INDA (V11)", Manifest’s International Drawing Annual exhibition in print, Cincinnati, 2017
“Mary A. Johnson”, Fresh Paint Blog, Fresh Paint Magazine, Philadelphia and London, January 20th, 2016.
Bannon, Anthony, "Everything Is at...