Courtney Johnson's work has been featured in 11 solo exhibitions in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Richmond, Wilmington, Norwalk, and Bogotá, as well as over 30 group exhibitions in the last three years. Her work is included in numerous collections including the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery, USM, Penang, Malaysia; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Presidential Penthouse, New York University, New York, New York; Girls’ Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Barclays Capital, New York, New York; and FOTOMUSEO, The National Museum of Photography in Bogotá, Colombia where Johnson’s work was featured in the 4th International Biennale of Photography: FOTOGRÁFICA BOGOTÁ 2011. Johnson specializes in photographic alternative processes and is one of the leading scholars on the photographic cliché-verre technique. Johnson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Photography and Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Miami. She was born in Houston in 1982 and has lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Mendham, New Jersey; Chattanooga, Tennessee; New York, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Miami, Florida; Oakland, California; and currently lives and works in Wilmington, North Carolina where she is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Gallery Director in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. |