James Jordan Johnson is born and living in London and has recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. He is interested in the generative space of concealment and divergence through representation, culture making and the relativity of truth and imagination. He centres his thinking through how genealogies of Caribbean material culture facilitates forms of illegible knowledge systems and uses pre-existing or self-established methods of opacity and slowness.
In 2020 he was awarded the Artist’s Bursary Scheme from Arts Admin, the Venice Fellowship Programme in 2022, the Frank Bowling Scholarship in 2024 and was shortlisted for the Donna Lynas residency in 2023.
Forthcoming
2025 - 2026 A Caribbean Yet to Come, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto, Puerto Rico
jamesjordanjohnsoninfo@gmail.com for inquiries and commissions
CV upon request
