Mary Johnson
Assistant Professor of Art
Mary Johnson earned an MFA from The State University of New York at Buffalo. She makes installations and works on paper that interrogate how perception narrates our experiences and at the intersections of art and environmental science. She has shown her work globally including the New York Hall of Science, the Nekrasov Library in Moscow, and the Cube Art Museum in Shanghai. Nationally, her work has been shown at Waterloo Arts (Cleveland), Coconino Center for the Arts (Flagstaff) and Box13 (Houston), among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Oxford College at Emory University. She has taught at Alfred University, the University of North Texas and multiple institutions in China, including the Central Academy of Fine Art and as an invited critic to Tsinghua University.
Education
BA| Gordon College| 2008
MFA| State University of New York at Buffalo| 2013
Courses Taught
Drawing 1
Introduction to Painting
Publications
2024: Microcosmic Orbit, with Nicole Condon-Shih, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland (2 person)
2023: The Red Planet, Artlink Gallery, Auer Arts & Culture Center, Fort Wayne (Solo)
2023: Caricatures, CICA Museum, Gimpo, S. Korea Men on Mars, BOX13 Art Space, Houston Dark Soils, Square Gallery, Shanghai Bizarre Bazaar, Aotu Gallery, Beijing (Solo)
2022: NightVisions, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff (Juried)
2022: Men on Mars, BOX13 Art Space, Houston (Solo)
2022: Collage by Women, Consell de Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain (Invitational)
2021: Women, Art & Technology: Ornament and Adornment, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Curated by Eliza Au, Fort Worth (Invitational)
2021: 11th International Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts: Shanghai Art Collections Museum, Shanghai Wo Jia Cultural and Creative Space, Shanghai Yangpu Station, Shanghai (Invitational)
2020: One Blossom One World, Cube Art Museum, Shanghai (Invitational)
2019: Dark Soils, Square Gallery, Shanghai (Solo)
2019: Paper Supreme, curated by Chang Feng. (Invitational)
Tiantai Art Space, Qingdao
Jilin Teachers College of Art, Jilin
Shenzhen Value Factory Art Museum, Shenzhen 798 ST Space, Beijing
2018: Bizarre Bazaar, Aotu Gallery, Beijing (Solo)
2018: Collage Garden, Nekrasov Library, Moscow (Juried)
2017 Nature/Neon, Juried by Garth Johnson, Sandra J. Blain Galleries Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg (Juried)