JONATHAN JOHNSON
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2022:
Artist in Residence: Island Darkroom (Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)
West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival
Ostranenie Theatre 2 Moving Image Festival (Surrey, England)
Solo exhibition @ The Test Strip (Ohio University, Athens, OH)
The People's Forest (working title) workshop in the Wayne National Forest (Stroud's Run State Park, OH)

2021:

Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Support Grant
featured artist in Analog Cookbook journal
Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago, IL): Streetlight
Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH): Image Ohio 2021, catalog
Umpqua Valley Arts Exhibitions (Roseburg, OR): A Watched Pot Always Boils
Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University (Myrtle Beach, SC): Media Arts
Ohio Art League (Columbus, OH):  Spring Juried Show, Juror: Kim Flora, Head of Installation, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, catalog
Marybar (Haifa, Israel): 121 &1 curated by Yoss Stybel, Vadim Nemirovskiy
Vinilonga - Int. Short Film & Music Video Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Videoformes 2021 (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Cortomontagna - Premio Leggimontagna (Udine, Italy)
Video Sound Archive (online), curated by Debbie YJ Lin + Bridget Moreen Leslie
Le Videofestival (Brescia, Italy)
Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder, CO)
Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN): Re-Presenting COOP Microcinema

2020:

featured artist in a three-person show at IoMA (Sheffield, UK), curated by Beatrice Knowles
three-person show at ROY G BIV gallery in Columbus, OH!!!! in September 2020
Onirica Film Festival (a Spezia, Liguria, Italy)
One Minute Film Festival (UK) curated by Kerry Baldry
La Galleria Nazionale (Rome): Io dico Io
Puffin West Foundation Grant



2019:

“Low Season” won Best Experimental Film at CINECAFEST in Miami, FL
L’Alternativa, Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Spain
VSA Open: Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, UK)
Stream - Visual Media Art Festival (Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK)
Stream - Visual Media Art Festival (Middlesborough, UK)
Public Space One (Iowa CIty, IA): Sweet 16
C.A.V.E. Festival (Minneapolis, MN)
New Old Image, Ohio University (Athens, OH)
The Station House (Durham, UK):  Project/Poetry, curated by Alexandra Carr, Josephine Butler College
CINECAFEST Central American Short Film festival (Miami, FL)
FEDAXV (Valdivia, Chile)
Esto Es para Esto (Monterrey, Mexico)
CineKasimanwa:  Western Visayas Film Festival (Iloilo City, Philippines)
Society for Photographic Education Media Festival (Cleveland, OH)
IV Video Festival nodoCCS at Art | Banchel (Madrid, Spain)
Hazel Eye Film Festival (Lipscomb College)
Leiden Short Film Experience (Leiden, Netherlands)

2018:
Artist in Residence at Museum Ricklundgården in Saxnäs, Sweden, June 2018
Solo exhibition The Space Between Two Rocks at Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN)
Low Season won Best Regional Filmmaker award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival
Low Season showed at the Portobello Art and Film Festival (London, UK) and at the Sphere Festival (Kolkata, India)
Public Space One (Iowa City, IA): Dear Future
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI): in competition
Society for Photographic Education Media Festival:  (Philadelphia, PA)
Tentacles Gallery (Bangkok, Thailand and future locations): Bibliomania
images from Low Season and Green Country photobooks will be published in issue #30 of “Rethinking Marxism” academic journal.  With   essay written by Brian Harnetty.
Takeshi Moro and I had a conversation about photo education for the College Art Association’s “Conversations” podcast.  Released in April 2018.
Low Season is part of the Recontres Internationales Paris, Image Lab Program (Paris, France)
Mountain Funeral screened at the Appalachian Film Festival (Somerset, KY)
Low Season: Official Selection at the  Altan Khalis Independent Film Festival (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) in June 2018



© Jonathan Johnson 2021


  • Home
  • FILM
    • Forest Language
    • A Story From Shaba's Family Hairstyling
    • I'm Listening, I'm Listening
    • Low Season
    • River Ghosts
    • Flee
    • Mountain Funeral
    • Archival Footage Experimental Films
    • Home Projections (work in progress)
    • The Great Garden (work in progress)
  • Photography
    • The Space Between Two Rocks
    • Backyard Topographic
    • Excerpts from Low Season and Green Country
    • Invisible Being
    • Buildings of Skagaströnd
    • Sky Grid
    • Walking Paths of Saxnäs
    • Collage and Postcard
    • Húnaflói
    • Photo Zines
    • Untitled (in progress)
  • about
    • news+exhibitions
    • art practice
    • purchase+contact me
    • More >
      • Collaborations + Teaching
      • Paw Paw Press