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ANDREW ELLIS JOHNSON

aj1j@andrew.cmu.edu

EDUCATION

1994                    M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

1982                    B.F.A.  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1978/79               State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

 

SELECTED ACADEMIC POSITIONS           

2004 – present      Carnegie Mellon, Associate Professor, School of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2006   Spring         Korean National University of the Arts, Visiting Associate Professor, Seoul

1999 –2004            State University of New York at Buffalo, Assistant Professor of Art

 

RESIDENCIES

2019                    Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 18—June 2

2013                    Sites of Passage through ArtUp: Israel/Palestine/Pittsburgh2013                   

2011                     Camberwell College of the Arts, London UK

                            Fayoum International Art Center through ArtUp, Fayoum, Egypt

2010                    Blue Mountain Center Costs of War Residency, Blue Mountain, NY

1999                    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1997                    Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland: a studio residency at Skoki Center

1992-94              Artist in Residence, Pennsylvania State Department of Corrections, Pittsburgh PA

 

SELECTED SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024

Assessment (or antidotal portraits for historical abuse), Elsie B. Rosefsky Art Gallery, Binghamton University, NY, January 25 - February 22 (upcoming)

 

2022                   

Getting There: Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre PA, June 21—August 7, 2022; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY, February 9—May 13, 2022

Arrogate, University of Dayton Index Gallery at the Dayton Arcade, OH, March 24 – May 20

Vested: Interest Due, The Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, March 11—April 15

Asunder: Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick, Empty Circle Space, Brooklyn NY, February 12 – March 12

2021                   

Founder, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY, March 15 – April 15

Getting There: Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick, Stockton University Art Gallery, Galloway NJ, September 7 - November 14

2019                   

Getting There: Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick, Schmucker At Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, September 4 – December 6

Somewhere Over the Border, John and June Alcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 10 - March 8

2017-18

Resort, Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown OH, September 7 – October 26, 2018; Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids MI, November 7, 2017 – January 31, 2018

2016                    Choreography, Montgomery College, Tacoma Park MD, March 28 – May 9

2014-15               Call and Response, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ, December 19 –January 30 

2014                    Suspension/Descension, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Pasadena CA, March 15– April15

2008                   Airborne, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 4/11 – 5/1

                            Pluck, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/18 – 3/2

2007                   The Edge of Light, a solo show within a series of traveling exhibits, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers                                         University, Newark, NJ, 6/ 7 – 7/26; Seton Hall University Law School, South Orange, NJ            

2006                   The Annunciation II: VICTEORY (sic) and Zeitgeist, Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea,

                            When Pulse Becomes Pitch, (with David Tinapple) at Open Space for the Tangible Frequencies installation                               series presented by Interactive Futures 06, Victoria, British Columbia, January 26-29

2005                   When Pulse Becomes Pitch (with David Tinapple), A/V, Rochester, NY, 10/13-11/29

                            Pressed: When Words Become Earth, A Space, Toronto, Canada, 2/ 25 – 3/26

2004                    Cleave, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 10/22–11/28

2003                    One Night Or A Thousand Others, (with Susanne Slavick) University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 11/13-12/19

                             Little Relief, Riverside Art Center, Chicago, IL, 9/12 – 10/0 (with Susanne Slavick)

                             Pressed: When Words Were Earth, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, 2/10 – 3/7

2001                    Democracy on Ice, Big Orbit, Buffalo, NY, 11/10 – 12/22    

                            Stock Options, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 10/4-11/4

                            Just Another Market Mop Up, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/27 – 6/10; and                                   CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 6/ 22 – 8/24

2000                   Spring, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA, 3/10 – 4/6

2000                   Just Another Market Mop Up, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 12/28 – 1/27

1999                    Degree of Difficulty, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 9/15 – 10/22     

1998                    Wash Up: Tsunami Tidings, Broken Shore, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA

1996                    Slugs, University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, NE,  8/30-9/20            

1995                    Breaking Wind, USX Tower, Pittsburgh, PA

1994                    Lavalas, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

                            a • d d r e s s i n gr o o m,   C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH

                            Once Upon A Time But Never Now, Washington & Jefferson College, PA

1993                    President's Day Sale, Taylor Allderdice Exhibition Room, Pittsburgh, PA

1992                    President's Day Sale, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1982                    Three Films by Andrew Johnson, The Film Center, Chicago, IL

 

SELECTED PUBLIC/COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2016                    PED Toronto, Koffler Gallery, Toronto ON, June 23, August 21, 2016
                           
2014                    A Bridge Not Far: China, (with PED Collective), curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harborfront Centre, Toronto,                                   ON, June 21 – September 21

2008-12              The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, Bibliothekssystem Universität Hamburg, Germany; New York                               Public Library, Aguilar Branch, NYC 2011; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland, March 10 - July 31, 2010;                                   National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, http://www.bn.gov.ar/, http://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=7742

                            PED St. John’s, Sound Symposium XIV, St. John’s, Newfoundland, July 3-13

2007                   PED Rio, FILE-Rio 2007, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3/19-April 24

2006                   PED Chongqing, Tank Loft Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China, 6/1 – 6/4

2003                   PED Tonowandas, Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, NY, Sept. 14 – Oct. 19, also part of Doors Open Niagara,                                   October 18 –19 

2002                   PED/Belfast, an interactive performance, FiX02 Festival, Catalyst Arts, 5th Belfast Biennial of Performance                               Art, December 5 – 8, Belfast, Ireland

2001                    PED, an interactive installation at University at Buffalo Gallery, NY (with Paul Vanouse and Mille Chen) 

2000                   Herd About Buffalo, public sculpture sponsored by Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Roswell Park                                           Alliance, Buffalo, NY

1999                    The River Mural Project, collaborative public mural at Key Bank, Skowhegan, ME

                            True Crimes, contributed to Critical Art Ensemble’s collaborative exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,                                 PA  

1996                    Bemis Long Grain.  Do Not Rinse Before Cooking., collaboration with Flo Hoy Wong, Bemis Center for                                     Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

1993                    Partecipart, Progetto Cuspide Venezia, Venice, Italy, June 24-26, 1993

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS

2023

Picturing the Constitution, Curated by Katherine Gressel, Old Stone House, Brooklyn NY, October 22 - January 2024

In Balance / Imbalance, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, May 6 – mid October

Cannibals of Love, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle PA, April 1 – May 20

2022

Ballots Not Bullets, WhiteBox, curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes, New York NY, October 31 – November 20

Human Animal II: Full Wolf, Whole Sheep, Laughing Pig, curated by Katarína Balúnov, Galéria umelcov Spiša, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, July 13 – October; Catalogue and virtual tour

Lapdogs of War, Proyectos Raul Zamudio, Empty Circle, New York NY, March 26 – April 24

Stolen Goods, York College Marketview Arts, York PA, January 6 – February 23

2021

Avis de Passage, 34E Festival Les Instants Vidéo at Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, November 10, 2021 – February 13, 2022

Reimagining the Real, Emery Arts, University of Maine Farmington, September 2 – October 21

International Migration & Environmental Film Festival, Canada, virtual, October 9 – 16

The Weight of Time, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland OH, August 14 – October 10

Reveal, THIS Gallery, curators Shannon Pawliw & Barbara Bryn Klare, April 23 - May 31 online

Agent Provocateur, The Empty Circle, Brooklyn NY, curator Raul Zamudio, March 20 – May

Very Well Thank you: The Arts as a Means to Well Being, NIU Art Museum. March 24 - May 14

The world that has been given, Jason McCoy, New York NY, February 3—March 1, online

Storied References, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, January 12 - February 26

2020                

Quaranzine, Innovative Media, Research and Commercialization Center, University of Maine, Orono, October 9 - November 13

Art Is Not Optional, Al Quds Gallery, Washington DC, January 25—February 28

Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI,  January 13  - March 7

2019                   

Triggered, The Lye Residence, San Francisco CA, October 17 – November 10

Liten, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT, September 27 – November 1

FILE Festival 2019, SESI Gallery of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 26 – August 11

Virtual Palestine: Videos from an existing reality, curated by Dagmar Painter, P21 Gallery, London, May 8

Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center Video Project, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson

NC, April 1 – June 30

SCREEN, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland ME, March 23 – June 23

2018                   

Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, Durham NC, October 1– 24

                           ∞, Skowhegan Alliance, New York, NY, October 2018

                           Artists Who Teach, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA, August 25-    November 25

                           Marx@200, Space, Pittsburgh PA, April 6 – June 10

                           Border Zones and Liminal Bodies, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, March 12    and Feminist

Border Arts Film Festival at CMI Theater, NMSU, April 16.2018                   

The Particular Past, curated by Paul Nicholson, Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA,                                           February 14 – April 30, 2018

                           The Other Border Wall, organized by JM Design, Flatland, Houston Texas, February 12 - March 30, 2018

2017                   Antidote for Trans Allegoria, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Mykonos Biennal, Greece, September

                           Gateway to Freedom, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, as part of Back to Athens 5, Cheapart Gallery,                                      Athens, Greece, June 8 -30

                           UNLOADED, (curated by Susanne Slavick), Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA, October 2018-                                    February 2019; Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne CA, September - October; Minneapolis                                College of Art and Design, June 9 – July 16; Marsha Wood Gallery (presented by Dashboard), Atlanta GA,                               April 27 – May 20; Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland ME, March 16 – April 14; Bolivar Art                                     Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, January 20 - February 18

                            Home Sweet Home, curated by Martha Zoupa, TWIXTlab, Athens, Greece, May 6–7, 2017

                            Personals, Skowhegan New York Space, New York, NY, May 4 – June 8, 2017

2016                    Virtual Palestine, Curated by Dagmar Painter, Gallery Al-Quds, Jerusalem Fund, Washington, D.C.,                                             November 18 – December 16

                           Unloaded, (curated by Susanne Slavick), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN, October 7 –                                        December 31; UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, March 31 – May 5 and July 5-31; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College,                            NY, February 3 – March 6

                           Politics and Power, Curated by Virginia Walsh, Safe Harbors Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY, October 8 –                              November 26 

                            Art VOTES: Visualizing the Democratic Process, Gallery Bergen, Paramus NJ, September 20 – November 11

                           The Map Is Not the Territory, curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter, Santa Fe University of Art and                              Design, September 16 - October 16, 2016; Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton, OR, June 10 – August 20,                            2016; Arab American National Museum, Dearborn MI, January 22 - May 15, 2016; Multicultural Arts Center,                                East Cambridge, MA, September 5 – November 3, 2015; P21 Gallery, London UK, June 11 – July 25, 2015;                                Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, May 15 - June 22; al Quds Gallery at The Jerusalem Fund,                                            Washington, D.C., September 6 – October 18, 2013

2015                   Unloaded, (curated by Susanne Slavick); Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb IL, August 24 –                                  October 25; SPACE, Pittsburgh PA February 13 – April 26

                           Off the Wall, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison WI, August 6 and 13

                           Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, July 7-8

                           Forbidden Colors, Jerusalem Fund Al-Quds Gallery, Washington DC, June 3-August 15

                           The Drawing Board, DC Arts Center, Washington DC, January 15 - February14

2015                   Refugee Monument, (with Anonymous Stateless Immigrants), Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorky Theater,                                Berlin, Germany, November 13-29

                           War on Women, a benefit for Planned Parenthood, Clear Story, Pittsburgh PA, November 19          

                           Exercising Authority: Racial Minorities and the American Legal System, Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass OR,                                November 3 – December 11

                           The Double, Select Art Fair, Center 548, NYC, May 13-17 

                           Out of Rubble, Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 2 –                              May 16

                           Pursuing Art through Justice, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell MA, March 18 – April 25

                           6th International Video Art Festival, Camagüey, Cuba, March 31- April 4

                           Animalia Agitatus, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro PA, February 4-28 

                           Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn NY, January17 - February 22  

                           6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt, November 8-20, 2014; Dubai                                            Community Theatre & Arts Center (DUCTAC), Dubai UAE, January 15-21, 2015. 

2014                   And We Have Countries, curated by Dagmar Painter, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al Quds, Washington                                   D.C., November 21, 2014 – January 9, 2015

                           ISEA 2014, 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art (with Susanne Slavick), Dubai, UAE, October 8 –                            November 8

                           War on Women, curated by Vicky Clark for Planned Parenthood Benefit, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA,                                  October 2, 2014

                           Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, PA, January 23-March 8, 2014; Jack                              Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL, September 2 - October 16, 2014

                           Borders, Walls and Citizenship, curated by Tavia La Follette, Mattress Factory, May 31 – July 20 and                                          Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, June 6 – August 1, Pittsburgh PA, cancelled 

                           The Drawing Show, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA, February 11–March 7

                           17 Days (vol.6), Bret Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College, NY, August 26 – September 17, 2013; Atrium                                    Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, February 18 – March 25, 2014

                           Ossuary, curated by Laurie Beth Clark, Herron Gallery of IUPUI, Indianapolis IN, January 29 – February 15 

2013                   Animalia Agitatus, Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion PA, November 21, 2013 through March 20, 2014

                           Ossuary, curated by Laurie Beth Clark, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville TN, October 4-                            26

                           Bad as I Wanna Be, organized by Joshua Bienko, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Queens NY, August 22 –                                        September 22 

                           Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne CA, September 2 – November 14; String                              Room Gallery Wells College, Aurora, NY, March 20-April 6

                           Meditations on Emancipation…, Bertha B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, NY, February 1 - March 9, 

2012                    Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Galleries, OH, September 7 – October 7; The Marlin and                                   Regina Miller Gallery, Kutztown State University, PA, October 18 - November 18

                            Political Humor, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, CO, October 22 – November 17

                            Fauna: Figuring + Fathoming, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA, October 4 – November 15 

                            Strange Glue: Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, CT, September 7 –                                   November 20

                            VideoRover: Season 4, NURTUREart, Brooklyn NY, June 1-3; Videorover Project Space, June 4- December                               30 

                            The Double, Cabinet, Brooklyn NY and LAXART, Los Angeles CA, May 9

                            Overlapping Memories, SPACE Gallery, February 10 - April1,  Pittsburgh PA and Quart Jove Gallery,                                           Valencia, Spain, February 24 - March 24

2011                    Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, December 2, 2011 – January 29, 2012

                           Dislocation, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro PA, November 3-24

                           Imprint of War: Responses in Print, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA, October 31-Dec. 5

                           Sites of Passage, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA, September 9–February 12

                           No Glory, Form + Content, Minneapolis MN, September 8 – October 1

                           Exchange: Show Me the Money, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, April 29 – May                              15

                           Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, 523 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, January 28 – April 29

                           Diasporas and Dreams, Penelec~Megahan~Bowman Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, January                                25 - March 13

2010                    Ray Johnson and a Book about Death, SAL Art Gallery, CW Post Campus of Long Island University,                                           Brookville, NY, November 1-5 

                            Eat Me, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA, September 17 – October 9

                           SPILL > FORWARD, Medianoche, New York NY, July 30 – September 21

                           Another Way of Looking: Influences from Islam, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, OH, May 21 –                             June 26

                           Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, Silver Springs, MD, April 23-25    

2009                  The Pandemic Show, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, November 14 – December 19

                           A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, NYC, September 10-22

                           Gestures 13, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA, July 24 – January 10, 2010, curated by Katherine Talcott 

                           Zoo Logic, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY, July 11 – August 14

To Be or Not To Be: A Painter’s Dilemma, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, March 27 – April 25 http://www.rutgerscamdenarts.org/exhibitions/

2,191 Days and Counting, The Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, March 5-22http://www.powerhousearena.com/

Bailout Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, NC, January 16 – March 15

http://goldenbeltarts.com/newsEvents_Details.php?event_id=30

http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0116b09.mp3/view

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1415665.html

2008                    Darwin’s Bicentennial: Art, Science and the Origin of Species, Ohio State University: Kuhn Gallery, Marion Campus, September 24 - October 30 and Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus Campus, November 12 - December 5

http://arts.osu.edu/3news_events/e_hopkins_gallery/hhg_fall_2008/fall_2008_gal_3.php?img0 Screen Festival Oslo, Cinematheque, Oslo, Norway, October 24-26

                           http://www.screenfestival.no/2008/program/index.html

                           In the Making, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, September 12 – January 10, 2009

                           http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A56245

                           Political Craft, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, May 9 – July 27

                           Illuminators, Art Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg Airport, Russia, April 11 – June

                           The Heroes Show, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, April 4 - 26

2007                  Conceptually Bound, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA 11/13 –12/6; Mohr Gallery,

Mountain View, CA, 4/1–5/26, 2008

                      Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain, November 16-18

20th Instants Video, Galerie SoiXante AdaDa (Artistes Des Ateliers Dionysiens Associés), St. Denis, France,

October 25 – November

The Desert Generation, Meneer de Wit, November 22; Artists House, Jerusalem, June 5-19 and Ha'Kibbutz

Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 28 – July 28

                           H2O, VAD 2007, International Festival of Video and Digital Arts, Centre Culturel de Merce, Girona, Spain,

October 17-21

                           Stories +/- Ornament, Sol Koffler Gallery, Center for Integrative Technology, Rhode Island School of Design,

Providence, RI, 9/28-10/14

                           Images of Peace, The Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, 9-23 -10/14

                           Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body, a traveling video collection: Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 9/ 8; Hallwalls

Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 9/20; and more.

                           EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea, August 24-30                   

FILE SAO PAULO 2007, (with David Tinapple), SESI Cultural Center, Brazil, 8/13-9/9

                           Global Eyes, SIGGRAPH 2007 Gallery, San Diego Convention Center, CA, August 5-9

                           Propaganda III World Tour, poster exhibit originated by START SOMA Gallery, opening July 4 in San Francisco; traveling to cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East; eventually archived at Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA             http://www.startsoma.com/propagandaIII.html

                           Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, June 8 – July 13

                           http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/Glassnost/index.php

Best of Pittsburgh, Three Rivers Arts Festival, PPG Wintergarden, June 1-17, curated by Kathryn Talcott   http://www.artsfestival.net/artsfestival/art-projects.php

Art Tech Media 2007, Casa America, Madrid, Spain, May 9-11(video screening)

http://www.artechmedia.org/en/

The Heroes Show, Bryce’s Barber Shop and ROOM 30, Olympia, WA, May 5 – June 2

Loop Pool 007, 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, May 4-6; Lange Nacht der Kultur 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany June 16-17; Pocket Film Festival Olhares, Castle Hill, Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-23; Capalbio Cinema, Capalbio, Italy, June 27-July 1. http://www.raumfuerprojektion.de/

                           Caught Looking, PNC Park Jumbotron, Pittsburgh, April 2 http://www.caughtlooking.info/

                           SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 20-24

                           http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/tinapple.html

2006                 Terror? Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, September 11 - November 11

                           http://www.sfstation.com/terror-at-intersection-for-the-arts-a2226

                           CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, April 11

                           After, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA, February 3 - March 19 (curated by Laura Donaldson)

                           100% Centennial, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, January 20 – March 5

                           http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/exhibitions/centennial/

                           Adding Insult to Imagery, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of PA, January 16 - February 17, traveled to Central Missouri State, Warrensburg, MO, September

http://www.addinginsulttoimagery.net/johnson.htm

2005                    Disasters of War: from Goya to Golub, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, September 10 – December 11

                           http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/press/DoW.html

                           http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2005/1005warexhibit.html

                           Photography Plus, Bowman and Megahan Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, November 8 – December 7     

                           Displacement, WORK Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 14 – November 13http://detroitarts.blogspot.com/2005/10/work-gallery-ann-arbor.html

                           Animal Nature, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, August 26-October 2

                           http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/animalnature/

                           Glass House Refractions, Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, NY, May 13-27

                           Skinless Capital, Open Source, Champaign, IL, April 30 – May 13

                           http://opensource.boxwith.com/archives/000022.html

                           Inkjet, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA, March 12 – April 9 

2004                    Self Inflicted, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, November 19-December 30

                           War, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA, October 15-16

                           Introducing Palestine, American Friends Service, Pasadena, CA, 9/16 –November 12

                           Loom 3: Labeler, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC, May 22 – 29

                           Flock and Fable, Chelsea Museum of Art, NYC, NY, May 6 – July 30

                           Objects in/and Visual Culture, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University,

                           March 1-20

2003                  Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Center for Advanced Art and Culture, Institute for American Universities, Aix

en Provence, France, April 2002; Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy, November 2002; Jacob Lawrence Gallery,

University of Washington, March 2003; Maryland Institute College of Art, November 14 –December 14

Re:cycle, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada, October 6 – November 16

Violent Violence, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6/27 – 8/10

2002                  Falastine: Artists Against the Occupation, Ofuroya: Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA May

                           Artists Crossing Lines, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1- January 3

Show: The Flag, The Armory, Pasadena, CA, May 12 – June 16

                           21st Century Exhibition, Skowhegan Alumni exhibition, New York, New York

Big Orbit Gallery: Ten Years of Spin on Western New York Art, Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY,

3/2 – 4/28, curated by Gerald Mead, Catalogue.

2001                   Welcome to the Playground of the Fearless, Entropy/New Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Dec 14 – Jan 10

                           Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY

Inaugural Exhibition, Market Street Gallery, Lockport, NY

Photographs by Artists Made for a Variety of Purposes, AIR, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001, September 8 – October 6

2000                  Culture of Class, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

  (In)Justice:  Huntingdon Art Gallery, Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL

Members' Show, Big Orbit, Buffalo, NY (Best of Show)

1999                  Origins of the Species-ist, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Camouflage, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, summer

The Way Mayne (Maine) Was, Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME

Silenced Voices: an Affirmation of Human Rights, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, June 5 – July 30, catalogue. 

76th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, Award.

8 – HourDrawings, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

1998                    New Voices/New Visions, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Apocalypse Now and Then: Art at the End of Time, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, Jan 16 – Mar 13

Visiting Faculty Exhibition, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Nine: Indiana University of PA Art Faculty Exhibition, Indiana, PA

1997                    Roundup, Rogue Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

                           Chrome/osome, Associated Artist Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 3/1 – 4 19, catalogue

1996                    Impacted by AIDS, Old Bemis Gallery, Omaha, NE

                           Diverse and Unified, Brewhouse, Pittsburgh, PA                      

                           Hearts and Other Body Parts, Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, MA

1994                    Construct, Context & Code, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH

1994                    public property / PRIVATE AFFAIR, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, PA

                           Revivified Figuration, Rosebud Art Forum, Pittsburgh, PA

1994                    No Man A Beast, G.S.I.A. Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1993                    New Directions: A Survey of Contemporary Art, Rosebud Art Forum, Pittsburgh, PA

1992                    Wedlock, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

International Telecommunications Live Performance Exchange, The Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh

                           International Telecommunications Exchange, The Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

                           Reflux, International Telecommunications Exchange in conjunction with the Saõ Paulo Biennale, Brazil,

Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

                           Draw the Straight Line and Swallow It, Performance, Adamson Wing, CMU, PA

1991                    Iron City Flux, Collaborative/Performance Art, Rosebud Art Forum, Pittsburgh, PA

1991                    International Student Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

1990                    International Student Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

1988                    Myth & Fantasy, Limelight, Chicago, IL

1986                    Six Chicago Filmmakers, The Funnel, Montreal, Canada

                           U.S.A. Experimental Films, Kommunalis Kino, Frankfurt, Germany

1985                    Group Show, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL

1984                    Ten Filmmakers, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY

Experimental Film Coalition Juried Festival, The Film Center, Chicago, IL

LECTURES and CONFERENCES

2022 Artist Lecture: Getting There, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA, June 22, 2022

        Artist Lecture: Getting There, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY, online, Feb. 23

2021 Presenter, Re:Actor International Art & Design Workshop for the 2021 Tsinghua International,

Conference on Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 22

The Weight of Time Gallery Talk at Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, online, September 30

        Getting There Artist Lecture, Stockton University Art Gallery, NJ, online, September 29

        Dialogue with Clint Smith: How the Word Is Passed, SUNY Cortland, NY, Aril 15, online

        Artist Lecture: Founder, SUNY Cortland, NY, March 17, online

2019                    Gallery Talk: Getting There, Gettysburg College, PA, September 4

       Workshop/Lecture: Once Upon a Time; All at Once: Contemporary American Narrative Painting: Academy

of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Lecture May 30

2018                   Gallery Talk: Artists Who Teach, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA, September 12

                           Gallery Talk for RESORT, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown OH, September 7 2016                   

Older than Yesterday’s News, Panel Chair, 26th International Sculpture Conference,:  Sculpture in Context:                               Tradition and Innovation, October 15-18, 2016                          

2015                    Art and Conflict, satellite event for 71st Southeastern College Art Conference: Confluence, Carnegie Mellon                             University, October 24, 2015

                            Open Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University, introduction and screening of two videos, Pittsburgh PA,                                 April 18

2014                    Duquesne University, Center for Qualitative and Interpretive Research, Pittsburgh PA, September 24

                            Carnegie Mellon University, Drawing Damage, DRAW2014: Why Draw Now? Symposium, March 1, 2014

2013                    Wells College, Gallery talk for 12th Annual Activism Symposium, Aurora NY, March 22,

                            Bowling Green State University Artist’s Talk for OUT OF RUBBLE, Bowling Green OH, September 10

                           Occupy Your Mind, Facilitator for Panel Discussion: Artists Reflect on “Art as Politics”, Occupy Pittsburgh,                                  Bricolage Theater, Pittsburgh PA, March 9

                           Artist in Residence, IdeaLab, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, February 6

2011                    University of the Arts London, Lecture and Visiting Faculty at Camberwell College of the Arts, UK,                                              November 21-25

                           SECAC Annual Conference, The Caesarean Urge, "Collage is /as / of" session, Savannah College of Art &                              Design, Savannah, GA, November 9-12

                           Edinboro University, Artist Lecture, Edinboro PA, November 2

                           University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery Talk: Imprint of War, October 31

                           Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, PA Lecture, January 25,

2010                   Carnegie Mellon Center for the Arts in Society, Let me rephrase that” for Managing Perceptions: How to                                   retool the War on Terror, with Adam Hodges, October 18

                           Blue Mountain Center, lecture for Costs of War session, Blue Mountain, NY, May 10,

                           Columbia College Chicago: Lecture for Critical Encounters; Fact and Faith, February 11

2009                  Rutgers University, Panelist, To Be or Not To Be: A Painter’s Dilemma, Camden, NJ, March 27-28

2008                  New York University, Cleavage for the Technology and Collage/Montage Roundtable, 6th Annual Meeting                              of the Cultural Studies Association, New York City, May 22-24

2006                  University of Leeds, The Afterlife of Memory: Memoria/Historia/ Amnesia, CongressCATH 2006,                                                CentreCATH (Centre for Cultural Analysis, History & Theory), Leeds, England, July 5-8

                           Seoul University, Models of Narration and Narrator Models, Korea, May 17

                           Korean National University of the Arts, Artist’s Talk, Seoul, Korea

2005                  Carnegie Mellon, (Im)Permanence: Cultures In and Out of Time, Center for the Arts in Society,                                                    Moderator/Commentator for Opening Time conference panel, Pittsburgh, October 13

                           The New School, NYC, Democracy on Ice   for Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality                                               conference, April 18

2003                  University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, GA, November 13 (lecture/performance)

                           University of Georgia, Athens, Cortona, Italy, July 17, artist’s lecture

                           Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, July 14, artist’s lecture

                           Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, March 25, Not in Our Stars, but in Ourselves

Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, February 27, Pressed

2002                  Tri-State Sculptors Educational Association, co-sponsored by International Sculpture Center, Moore College

of Art, Philadelphia, Oct. 11-13, Round/About Narratives

28th Association of Art Historians Annual Conference 2002, University of Liverpool, England, April 5-7,

Draw the Straight Line and Swallow It          

2001                    Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Foul Play: On Social, Economic and Aesthetic Trappings

2000                   Alfred University, Alfred, NY, artist’s lecture

                           Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA, artist’s lecture

1999                    Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, artist’s lecture

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Degree of Difficulty

Danforth Gallery, Portland, Maine, artist’s lecture

1997                    Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, artist’s lecture

                           Academy of Fine Arts at Skoki Center, Poznan, Poland, artist’s lecture

1996                    University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, artist’s lecture

1995                    Clark University, Worcester, MA, artist’s lecture

1994, 1993           Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, The Synthesis of the Spiritual and the Sensual at Ajanta,

presented to students in the History of Art and Religions courses.

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Step Right Up or Step Outside, public presentation emphasizing

community involvement in the arts, sponsored by the College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning,

and Sculpture Department.

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY (TEXTS AND IMAGES BY ARTIST)

2023 Parity or Bust, The Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly: In Balance/Imbalance. Summer 2023

2022 Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism by Filipe Maia, Duke University Press

2021                    The Maine Art Journal: Freedom and Captivity, Fall 2021, Artists Showcase

2020                   Love in the Time of Covid: A Chronicle of the Pandemic, December 4, New Zealand, online

                           The Plague Review Journal, Issue 4, Rotland Press: Ann Arbor              

2018 Hyperallergic, The Chains of Intolerance, Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, June 30   

                           Hyperallergic, Armed with Hindsight, Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, May 19

                           Hyperallergic, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, March 3

2017                    Hyperallergic, The Skeletons in History’s Closet, in Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, November 4

                            Hyperallergic, Swamp Accommodations VI in Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, August 5.

                            American Flytrap, No. 1, “Sam I Am” image for “Post-Truth,” Rotland Press: Ann Arbor, 2017

2015                    Counterpunch, “Rocking Horses” image for “Greece as a Euro ‘Economic Protectorate’” by Jack Rasmus,                                 July 15.           

2014                    This Week in Palestine, review of Nowhere by Bashar Alhroub at Gallery One in   Ramallah, September 2

2013                    Cairo: Images of Transition, edited by Mikala Hyldig Dal, Verlag/Columbia University Press: Cairo, images                                 and essays

2011                     A New Tahrir Square, International Competitions in Architecture (ICARCH), 2011        

2007                   M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture (peer reviewed and edited by Larissa Hjorth and Olivia                                         Khoo), Zeitgeist, a digital collage/essay for the Mobile issue, March   

                            Hayden’s Ferry Review #39, Arizona State University, (cover art and images in Works of Witness section)

2006                  Fables of La Fontaine, (illustrations), compiled and edited by Koren G. Christofides, translated by                                              Constantine Christofides and Christopher Carsten, University of Washington Press

                           Draw the Straight Line and Swallow It in Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity,                                            Hegemony, Historicism, Tate Liverpool Critical Forum 6, ed. Jonathan Harris, Liverpool University Press                                    and Tate Liverpool (illustrated essay)

                           River City, (Ill Will issue), University of Memphis, Winter 2003

2002                  Where Extremes Meet, The Brecht Yearbook 27, University of Wisconsin Press (cover illustration) 

 

TEXTS AND REPRODUCTIONS (ABOUT ARTIST’S WORK)

2023 Joseph + Barrie Ann George, Get an appetite for love at Ejecta Projects, The Sentinel, April 19

2022            Joseph and Barrie Ann George, Stolen Goods, The Dillsburg Banner, January 13

2021             Pat Johnson, From Somewhere Else, The Sandpaper, November 3

Kaiser Gallery Group Show Looks at Pandemic with a Surrealist Eye, CoolCleveland.com, September

Nanette LoBiondo Galloway, Stockton features new art installation on Galloway campus, Downbeach.com, September 8

Whitman, Arthur, Dowd Gallery’s latest exhibit examines nation’s history with critical lens, Ithaca Times, April 15

Artist revises American history, SUNY Cortland News, April 9

2019 McCloskey, Barbara; “Marx on Earth”, Cultural Politics (Duke University Press), July 1 2019; 15 (2): 244–251.

Marx@200, catalogue, Susanne Slavick and Kathleen M. Newman, May 2019

2018 Tucker, Jennifer (ed.), “Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms

and Their History,” Technology and Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol. 59, No. 3, July 2018.

                     Friday, Matthew, Marx@200, The Brooklyn Rail, June 5, 2018

                     Madeson, Frances, Taming a Rude Beast: Marx@200, Red Wedge, May 282017                    

'Up in Arms" Artwork at Wesleyan Takes on American Gun Culture, by Susan Dunne,  Hartford Courant,                                    November 7

                            In 'Up in Arms,' Artists Engage in Dialogue on  Gun-related Violence by Mae Davies, The Wesleyan Argus,                                October 30

                            No Vacation: 'Resort' is a voyage of 'empathic unsettlement, by Marla Miller, Revue, October 30

2016                    New UICA exhibit focuses on guns in America, by Susan Shaw, Wood TV 8, Grand Rapids MI, March 30

                            Acts of Revolution: Local art shows unravel violence, search for change, by Amber Donofrio, Ithaca Times,                               February 18

2015                    ‘Unloaded’ art exhibition examines politics of firearms, NIU Today, August 19, 2015

                            ‘Unloaded’ at Space, by Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 1, 2015

                            'UNLOADED' exhibit aims to point out tragedies of gun violence, by Laura Byko, Pittsburgh Post Gazette,                                  March 11

2014                    Art exhibit canceled after dispute over boycott of Israel, by Bill O’Driscoll, City Paper, June 11


2013                    Ortega y Gasset Gazette #2, September

                            Bad as I Wanna Be: An Interview with Joshua Bienko and Piper Brett by Sheilah Wilson, Temporary Art                                      Review, October 3 

                           ‘Rubble’ in relief: Wells exhibit examines the destructive wake of war, by David Wilcox, The Citizen, Auburn                               NY, March 24, 2013

2012                    Nurture Art 2011/12, p. 34-37

                           Politics takes it on the chin, by Todd Holteen, Durango Herald, October 29

                           Outrage: Art, Controversy and Society, eds: Richard Howells, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Judith Schachter,                                       Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, cover concept and artwork 

                           Judgment and Decision Making (The Earthscan Risk in Society Series), by Baruch Fischhoff, Routledge                                     (cover image and statement)

                           Art weighs U.S. role in 2 wars by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, January 25

2011                    American and Egyptian artists put a fresh spin on global politics by Nadine Wasserman, Pittsburgh City                                     Paper, December 7

                           Review: Mid-America’s Visual Arts Publication, April 2011 (reproduction)

                           Out of Rubble, edited by Susanne Slavick, Edizioni Charta, Milan, 2011, an anthology of works by forty                                       international artists responding to the aftermath of war; includes discussion and reproductions of Formal                                 Graffiti

                           A Sense of Place, Dave Hart, The Chapel Hills News, March 20 (reproduction of Lying Blan

                           Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis, Susan Noyes Platt, Midmarch Arts Press: New                                   York.  A critical analysis of contemporary politically engaged art.  Includes discussion and image of                                           PRESSED.              

                           Diasporas and Dreams, Gehring, Jacqueline, Kirschner, Shanna and Miller, Darren,

Penelec~Megahan~Bowman Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, print and web catalogue, January

2011 (online catalogue is incomplete)

2010                   China Voices, edited by Lot Felizco and Madeleine Marie Slavick, Oxfam Hong Kong,

                  CSU Art Gallery displays Islam's true meaning, by Brittany Kula, The Cleveland Stater, June 9

               

2009                  The Bailout Biennial, by Maria DeGuzman and elin o’Hara slavick, Culture Work: a Periodical Broadside for

Arts and Culture Workers, an electronic publication of the University of Oregon Center for Community Arts

and Cultural Policy, October 2009, Vol. 13 No.4, (two reproductions)

                           Zoo Logic, in Nippertown, an online magazine based in the greater Capital Region/Hudson Valley, August 13

                           Buzzes and Chirps by Meisha Rosenberg, Metroland, Volume 32. No. 31                       

As recession stalls economy, creativity booms by Dave Hart, The Durham News, February 14

“Bailout” Tackles Economy, by Michele Natale, The News Observer, February 8,

Artists Take Shot at Bailout, by Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, Durham Herald Sun, January 30  

…troubles and hopes of the times, by David Fellerath, Independent Weekly and Indyweek.com, January 28

Budgetless Political Art…Blue Greenberg, The Herald Sun, January 25

                           Bailout Biennial, by Andrew Hibbard, The Duke Chronicle, January 22, reproduction

Bailout Biennial, Independent Weekly, Raleigh, NC, January 7, reproduction of Futures

2008                  Tondo, Art Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg Airport, Russia, catalogue

Seduction, by Claire Howard, Peoria Journal Star, April 13

Pluck Video Engages…, Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, January 30, p.D3

2007                   Global Eyes, SIGGRAPH Electronic Art and Animation, catalogue

Glassnost, essay by Paul Krainak, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, catalogue

FILE-Rio 2007, Electronic Language International Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, catalogue

Glassnost...., Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 27

CMU Exhibit brings transparency to art, Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 17      

2006                   The Breadth of What We Fear, by Nirmala Nataraj, SF Station, October 12

Tangible Frequencies, by Dene Grigar, Leonardo Online, March, 2006        

The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub, by Nina Felshin+Brian Wallis, Wesleyan University, catalogue

Animal Nature, Steve Baker, Lane Hall, Jenny Strayer, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005, catalogue

                           Animal Nature, by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 1

How We See Animals, by Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, September 11,

2004                   A Sense of Self by Kurt Shaw, Tribune Review, December 18

Artists Crossing Lines by Paul Krainak, Sculpture, January/February, p.78-79

2003                   Exhibit looks at foreign policy…, by Julie Powell, Athens Banner Herald, (Georgia) November 12

                           Re:cycle artfully done, by Kamya Ramaswamy, The Silhouette, (McMaster University), October 16

Get on Your Bikes and Ride, by Melissa Sandor, Buffalo Spree, September

Kritische kunst uit Amerika, Volkskrant, Amsterdam, July 17

Andrew Johnson installation puts viewer into Middle East conflict, by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-

Gazette, March 4, p.B-5

2002                   …Inspiration of Glass, Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 14

A Delicate Process, Kurt Shaw, Tribune Review, December 15 (reproduction)

Artists Shatter Boundaries, by Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Dec. 13

Radio Interview, NVR Radio 100.6FM, Belfast, Ireland, December 8

Big Orbit Gallery: Ten Years of Spin on Western New York Art, by Elizabeth Licata

2001                    Democracy on Ice, by Bernie Roddy, Artvoice, December 13

                           Pan American Exposition Secretly Celebrated Global Exploitation, by Janet Hinkel, altpress, December,

On Hot Ice, by Richard Huntington, Buffalo News, November 23

Decent Exposure by Richard Huntington, Buffalo News, Summer, F4

The Fine Art of Tourism by Elizabeth Licata, Buffalo Spree, Jul/Aug,

Heavy Lifting by Bruce Adams, Buffalo News, June 8

Down in the Swamp with PED, by Elizabeth Licata, Blue Dog, May 10-16, p.28

2000                   Spring by Paul Krainak, Sculpture Magazine, November, 2000, p. 71-72

just another market mop up, by Phyllis Evans, Artpapers, July/August, 2000, p.33

In a New Millenium, by Julia Morton, Chapel Hill News, 1/2/00, p. B4

1999                    Celebrating Danforth, by Douglas Rooks, Maine Times, 9/30/99

Human Rights Make a Wrong, by Charles Yannopoulos, Cleveland Scene, 7/15/99, p.44.

Silenced Voices: An Affirmation of Human Rights, Amy Bracken Sparks, SPACES: 1999, catalogue

Silenced Voices, by Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, 7/10/99, pp.1E and 6E.

Founding Mainer Inspires Artists, by Selena Ricks, Portland Press Herald, 7/3/99, p. 8B

New Ideas…, by Mary Birdsong, Erie Times News, 5/27/99, p.17S,

Art Reviews, by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 4/24/99.

14 Artists…, by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 2/6/99, p.C-7.

1998                    Howling at the Edge of the Renaissance: SPACES and Alternative Art in Cleveland, 1978-1998, William

Busta, SPACES: 1998, catalogue.

Study in Contrasts: Andrew Johnson’s Multilayered Works Both Attract and Repel, by Mary Thomas,

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 3/27/98, pp. 27,41.

Apocalypse Now and Then by Stephanie Sprague, Reuters News Agency, 3/12/98

It’s the End of the World, Jung Won Kim, Art & Performance, volume 8, issue 99, 3/98, p6-7.

Art Notes by Donald Miller, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 2/28/98, p.C-9.

Interview with Lincoln, Figlio, Messenger by Richard Steele, WBEZ

Radio Broadcast, Chicago, 2/10/98, 15 min. segment.

1997                    Skoki ’97, Poznan Academy of Art, Poland: 1997, catalogue.

Chrome/osome, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh: 1997, catalogue.

1996                    Diverse and Unified by Graham Shearing, Tribune Review, 9/6/96, p.D3.

1995                    Back to the Drawing Board by Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

                           3/19/95, p. 6, 14.

1994                    Conscience-striking art, by Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, 7/21/94, p.5-F, 12-F.

                           a•ddressing room, Cincinnati Post, January 6

1992                    Andrew Johnson's Unimpeachable Political Message by Kyra Straussman, In Pittsburgh , 10/7/92. p.34, 37.

Presidents Day Sale at theHewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon Magazine, Volume 11, No. 4, Winter 1992. p.7.

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2013                    Berkman Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Mellon

2007                   Center for the Arts in Society Grant, Carnegie Mellon

                           Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant

Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant

2005                   Berkman Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Mellon

Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant

2000                   New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend (returned)

University at Buffalo Individual Development Award and Julian Park Award

 

VIDEOGRAPHER (for other artists)

2011                    Stray Birds Sunset Full Moon, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA July 15

Bebop and Kidbop Performance, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA, July 9

2008                  Syrinx Ensemble with Anthony Braxton, National Aviary, Pittsburgh PA, May 31/June 1

2005                  River Piano by Michael Pestel, Allegheny River, Pittsburgh PA, April 2

                          

STUDENT CURATED EXHIBITS

2016                    From The ‘Dream’ To the Cosmos, organized by Kasem Kydd and Kelli Clark, Frame Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, January 29 – February 7

2015                    I Tell My Neighbor the Artist – Don’t Draw Your Weapon, organized by Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine, William Pitt Union Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA, March 17- April