James Jordan Johnson born and living in London works within performance, photography, sculpture and research. He is interested in thinking about how genealogies of Caribbean material cultures; agriculture and spiritual health systems by way of plants facilitate illegible knowledge systems. He is also interested in pre-existing or self-established methodologies of opacity and cartography, walking, organic materials, soil vernaculars, repetition and ephemerality.
Residencies
2024 High House Residency, Norfolk, (UK)
2021 A Decade of Performance Art in the UK, Folkestone (UK)
2020 Toynbee Studio’s, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2018 The Rising, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone (UK)
2018 The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (UK)
Group Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings
2024 Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica Vol.2, Ritzy Cinema, London (UK)
2023 Miles Greenberg, Water in a Heatwave, MIA Institute, Southbank Centre, London (UK)
2022 Crate Space, People Dem Collective, Margate (UK)
2022 Tiding, ]performance s p a c e[, Romney Marsh (UK)
2021 Working Encounters, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (AT)
2019 Collective Intimacy, The Showroom x 180 The Strand, London (UK)
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2024 Libation, Montego Bay, Lucie & Norfolk (JA & UK)
2024 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Diaspora Now, Humber St Gallery (UK)
2023 Late at Tate Britain: Desire, Culture and History (UK)
2023 In Response, Constellation of Multiple Wishes, Mosaic Rooms, London (UK)
2023 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Ugly Duck, London (UK)
2023 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow (UK)
2021 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Ark-T, Oxford (UK)
2021 Something is Trying to Disappear Me, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2019 Heads Up CLAY, Leeds (UK)
2019 My Brother’s Keeper, Tempting Failure, Croydon (UK)
Commissions
2022 Working Encounters, Create to Connect Create to Impact (SRB)
2021 In The Hour of Darkness, Estuary Festival, Essex (UK)
Media and Publications
2024 Intertidal Encounters, CSPAQ
2022 Joy Inside Our Tears, Harold Offeh and conversation with project contributors, Wellcome Collection (UK)
2021 Do You Remember The Floorboards? An online talk with Bri Williams, Open School East (UK)
2020 James Jordan Johnson in conversation with Róise Goan, Arts Admin, London (UK)
2016 Lament, Performance, TEDx Talk, London (UK)
Teaching, Talks & Workshops
2024 Mapping Movements and Personal Cartographies Workshop, Bow Arts (UK)
2024 The Conch, South London Gallery (UK)
2022 Artist Lecture, Margate Art School (UK)
2021 Theatre Arts, Middlesex University, London (UK)
Education
2024 - 2025 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art (UK)
2021 - 2022 Open School East, Margate (UK)
Awards
2024 Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
2022 Venice Fellowship Programme, Venice Biennale (IT)
2022 Metroland Cohort: Peer-To-Peer (UK)
2021 Live Art Fund, Jerwood (shortlisted), (UK)
2023 Donna Lynas Residency, Wysing Arts Centre (Shortlisted), (UK)
2020 - 2021 Artist Bursary Scheme, Arts Admin, London (UK)
Contact
jamesjordanjohnsoninfo@gmail.com
