Rindon Johnson

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Rindon Johnson (born 1990, California) is an American artist and writer. [1] Johnson has based his work on language and its slippery nature. He uses animal hides, animation, virtual reality, wood and vaseline to consider capital accumulation and the systemic violences that maintain it. [2] [3] Johnson has exhibited and performed internationally, and is a published author. [4] He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany. [5]

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Early life and education

Johnson was born in the unceded territory of the Ohlone peoples, [6] in San Francisco, CA in 1990. [7] He graduated from New York University and received his MFA from Bard College in 2018. [8]

Work

Johnson is the author of several books including The Law of Large Numbers, published by SculptureCenter, Chisenhale Gallery and Inpatient Press in 2021, the chapbook, No One Sleeps Better Than White People, published by Inpatient Press, and the virtual reality e-book, Meet Me in the Corner. [9] In 2017, Johnson collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Ser Serpas on Shade the King, a book of stream-of-consciousness-inspired poems by Johnson and abstract drawings by Serpas, published by Capricious. [10]

Rindon Johnson participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In September 2024, Johnson will present his largest solo exhibition to date at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China. [11] His work has been shown internationally, including solo presentations at Albertinum, Dresden (2022), SculptureCenter in New York (2021), and the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf (2019). [12] [13]

Johnson has written for a number of online and print art publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, [14] Cultured Magazine, [15] Hyperallergic, [16] and Artforum [17] and has lectured on art and theory at Bruce High Quality Foundation University, [1] Princeton, [18] UdK Berlin [19] and UCLA. [20]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected Collaborative Exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

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