Jolanta Johnsson

I am a Polish visual artist living and working in Boxholm, Sweden, among forests and lakes. For four decades I have followed one conversation: between the human figure and the natural world.

I paint people and nature not as separate subjects, but as two faces of the same mystery. In nature I find pattern, rhythm and an honesty that doesn’t argue with itself. In the human figure I find vulnerability, and the quiet drama of existing between opposing forces. When I work, the boundary between them dissolves: a landscape becomes emotional, a figure becomes elemental.

My language is semi-abstract and figurative. I work in oil on canvas, mixed media on paper, hand-printed linocuts and monotypes, and sculpture in steel and wood. The compositions are deliberately open, resistant to a single interpretation, so that a work can reveal something in its tenth year on the wall that it withheld in the first.

Trained as a printmaker in Warsaw and holding a doctorate in fine arts from Kraków, I have also taught printmaking and graphic design. My work is held in museum and private collections in Europe, the USA and Dubai.

2012 — PhD in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
1984–1989 — Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, Faculty of Graphic Arts

2012 – PhD in Art of the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland

Teacher at European Department of Fine Arts at Vistula University in Warsaw – the printmaking and the graphic design courses

Selected solo exhibitions
2020 — Konsthall Kisa, Kisa, Sweden
2018 — Karwacjan and Gładysz Manor Museum, Gorlice, Poland
2018 — DAP 2 Gallery, The Artist’s House, Warsaw, Poland
2018 — Aneks Gallery, Puławy, Poland
2017 — Centre for Culture Promotion, South Praga District, Warsaw, Poland
2014 — Skådebana Gallery, Linköping, Sweden
2010 — Van Golik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2007 — Palace of Art, Kraków, Poland
1998 — Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland
1994 — Girardet Gallery, Essen, Germany
1989 — Gallery MB, Stockholm, Sweden
Selected group exhibitions
2025 — På Gång – Vårsalong (Spring Salon), Galleri Passagen, Linköping, Sweden
2025 — Vintersalong (Winter Salon), Katrineholms Konsthall, Katrineholm, Sweden
2024 — Anonymous Drawings, Berlin, Germany
2023 — Summer Art Salon, Lubomirski Palace, Rzeszów, Poland
2022–2023 — Grafiteka, Printmaking Section of the Union of Polish Artists (ZPAP), The Artist’s House, Warsaw, Poland
2016 — Nominees’ exhibition, 13th Józef Gielniak Graphic Competition, Karkonosze Museum, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2016 — 35×35 Art Project, Copelouzos Family Museum, Athens, Greece
1997 — The Human in Painting and Graphics, Xylon Museum, Schwetzingen, and City Museum, Reutlingen, Germany
1994 — World Triennial of Po...