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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Eirik Johnson

Dates:  1974 -
Born:  US, WA, Seattle
Active:  US
Website:  www.eirikjohnson.com
 
  
Eirik Johnson is a photographer currently based in Boston, MA. His work has been exhibited at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the George Eastman House in Rochester, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. He has received several awards including the Santa Fe Prize in 2005 and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 1999-2000. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Fulbright Foundation, and the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection. His first monograph, BORDERLANDS, was published by Twin Palms Publishers in 2005. Eirik Johnson is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, WA. Johnson is an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art. 
  
Artist statement: 
  
"Stories about places are makeshift things. They are composed with the world‘s debris." (Michel de Certeau)
 
All of my photographic work deals with strange and momentary scenes within makeshift landscapes. Whether it is following the journey of pilgrims in the high Andes of Peru, walking alleys and sidewalks of the West Oakland neighborhood, spelunking down a subterranean urban river, or noticing the burrowing of rabbits in a landfill, I am curious to see how the relationship between human and natural interaction can create improvised environments. There is a temporal and fleeting nature to these environments, sometimes hinting at the sublime.
 
(March 2007)

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Eirik Johnson

Education
 
2003 M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
1997 B.F.A. Photography & B.A. History, University of Washington
 
Present Position
 
Assistant Professor of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
2007 Animal Holes, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Borderlands, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Borderlands, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2005 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2002 West Oakland Walk, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Tawantinsuyo: un viaje fotográfico, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cusco, Peru
2000 Eirik Johnson: Estonopeica y Estereoscópicas, Ojo Ajeno Galería, Centro de la Fotografía, Lima, Peru
2000 Eirik Johnson: Redefining the Western Landscape, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1999 Western Ground, RayKo South, San Francisco, CA
1998 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2007 On the Wall: Aperture ‘05/’06, Aperture Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Selections ’07, Stephen Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2005 Vital Signs, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
2004 Boundaries, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Episcopal Academy, Alexandria, VA
2004 Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Oculus, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
2004 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2003 Intervals, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2003 Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. juror James Elaine, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum
2003 Vernissage, SFAI Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2003 New California Masters, Works/San José, San José, CA
2002 Repurpose, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; juror Nicolas Bourriaud, Director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2002 Reclaiming the Hollow, site-specific installation, San Francisco, CA
2002 Lucite, Longitude and Joe Namath, collaboration with Toban Nichols, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Re-Imaging the West: a New History, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1999 Commotion, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1998 Selected Contemporary Work, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 The Camera Obscured, FotoCircle Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Intrusion: the Contemporary Landscape, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
 
Fellowships and Prizes
 
2005 Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2003 Brooks Award to Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2003 Artist Book Competition, San Francisco Art Institute
2001-2003 San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Artistic Merit Fellowship
2001 Grant for Artist Project (GAP), Washington State Arts Council
1999-2000 William J. Fulbright Grant, Peru
 
Collections
 
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
National Fulbright Organization, Washington, D.C.
Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco, CA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection. Seattle, WA and La Jolla, CA
Artist and Special Book Collection, University of Washington. Seattle, WA
Collection of the President of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
National Institute of Culture, Peru
Centro de la Fotografía, Lima, Peru
 
Publications
 
Aperture Magazine, essay by Dalia Azim, WINTER 2006-2007.
 
BORDERLANDS, photographs by Eirik Johnson, essay by Rod Slemmons; Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2005.
 
Re-Imaging the West: a New History, San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly Journal, Volume 28, No. 1, San Francisco, CA, 2001. 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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