Nikki Johnson
Education:
1995-1998 Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1990-1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
Monographs:
2014 - "Single Subject: Retrospective Box Set" - Maekask Editions
2013 - "We Buy Gold" - Maekask Editions
2010 - "Natural History" - Maekask Editions
Collaboration:
2014 - Present “Death Under Glass” photographic Art and education series with Dr. Marianne Hamel
Solo Exhibitions:
2015 - "Unseen" - , NY
2014 - "Photographer Nikki Johnson @ Pyramid" - New York, NY
2008 - "Femme Fatale" - Lava Gina, New York, NY
2003 - "Idolatry" - Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
2002 - "Your Future in Your Dreams: Photographs by Nikki Johnson", Brecht Forum, NYC
"Interiors - 125 West 42nd St., presented by Windows on 42nd St., NYC
1999 - "Novelty" - Art Library Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
"Tourist Journey" Alumni Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology
1997 - "Novelty" - RIT (MFA Thesis Exhibition)
1994 - "Fant Library Anniversary Exhibition" - Mississippi University for Women
Group and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2020 - #ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis - International Center of Photography
“We’ve Got The Numbers” - Songs for Presidents Gallery (canceled due to Covid)
2019 - “Visual AiDS” – Bortolami, NYC
2018 - “The Set NYC: Fashion Week SS, Chelsea, NYC
“Under the Rainbow” – Galleria Faroarte Marina of Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
“American Splendour” – Ilon Gallery, NYC
2017 - “The Unflinching Gaze: Photo Media and the Male Figure” - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery,
Bathurst, AU
“Noir”:Defining the Melodrama” – Longwood Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY
2016 - “Seities & Selves” – Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT
2015 - “Death Under Glass” - collaboration with Dr. Marianne Hamel, Bart’s Museum, London England
“Postcards From the Edge – Luhring Augustine, NYC
2014 - “Shrimp” – Norton Arts Center, Savannah Georgia
“Death Under Glass” - collaboration with Dr. Marianne Hamel, Mutter Museum, Philadelphia PA
2013 - “Cell Mates” - Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
2012 - “Pool Art Fair” - Pink gallery, Flatiron Hotel, New York, NY
“Occupy Tribes Now” - Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
2011 - “PHOTOBOOK!!2011” - Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Eat Me: The Tasty Art of Food Photography”- 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Dark Side: Night Photography”1650 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
”DOOR Art Fair, Pink Gallery, Seoul Korea
”Pink Art Fair Seoul: PAFS” Intercontinental Seoul COEX, Seoul Korea
“Fall Art Salon” - Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“A True Story “- Vermont Photo Space Gallery
“Fashioning Photography “- Vermont Photo Space Gallery
2010 - "A Book About Death" - NYC
"A Book About Death" - MOMA Wales
"Visions of Horror" – LDR Gallery, Bronx, New York
"Open Ground” - Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
"Creon Gallery” - Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY
"The Self-Portrait Project” Exhibition by Art House Coop, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn
"A Book About Death/ Um Livro Sobre a Morte" - Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo
"A Million Little Pictures: Documentary” - 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 - "A Book About Death" - The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
"Exposed" - Creon Gallery, New York, NY
"Slow News International" - The Arts at Marks Garage, Honolulu, Hawaii
"A Million Little Pictures: Documentary” - Art House Co-op Gallery, Atlanta Georgia
"Suspension of Disbelief: A Digital Photography Exhibition" Salena gallery, L.I. University
"Visual AIDS, Postcards from the Edge” Benefit Exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery
"Bridge Art Fair: BROADTHINKING” - New York, NY
"Back to the Wall” - Tribes Gallery
           "Lettres Et Images, 5 rue de Mandavi, Gradignan, France "Broadthinking’s Slow News International" - The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, Hawaii
"The Sketchbook Project” - Art House Co-op Gallery: Atlanta Georgia, 3rd Ward Gallery:
Brooklyn, NY, Soulard Art Market: St. Louis, MO, Chris' Jazz Café,
Philadelphia, PA, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, Antena Gallery: Chicago, IL
"The Sketchbook Project” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC,
Museum of Design: Atlanta, Georgia
"Mini Mini: A 4x4 Art Show” Push Gallery, Phoenix AZ, Cartel Gallery, Tempe AZ,
Conspire Gallery, Phoenix AZ
"Mississippi University for Women 2009 Alumni Invitational" – MUW, Columbus Mississippi
2008 - "Bridge Art Fair: BROADTHINKING" - Miami, Florida
"Fountain Art fair: Open Ground Miami" - Miami, Florida
"Lower East Side Exhibition" Musée de Monoian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"THE LAST BOOK", The National Library of Argentina, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
"URBAN SPACE 08 Projection Series" - New Life Berlin Art Festival, Germany
"Baltimore Erotic Art Festival: On the Edge" LOAD OF FUN Art Space, Baltimore MD
"GODdess" - Agni Gallery, New York, NY”
"Strike a Pose" - Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
"CPS 22” - Central Park South #22, New York, NY
"Broadthinking" - ABC No Rio, New York, NY
"Clothesline Benefit Art Sale" - ABC No Rio
"Adult Drawing" - CoZM Gallery, NYC
2007 - "Pool Art Fair"- Cavalier Hotel, Miami, Florida
"USER - Robyn Desposito and Nikki Johnson"- Tribes Gallery, NYC
"Open Ground Classic - Bushwick Open Studios & Arts Festival” - 106 Central Ave, Brooklyn
"NEW ‘07 Celebrating Ten Years of Nurturing the Edge”- Cue Art Foundation
"We are all photographers now!" - Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Watch the Roux: Keeping an Eye on New Orleans” - Red Square, Burlington, VT
“Watch the Roux: Keeping an Eye on New Orleans” - La Vagina, NYC
2006 - "The Art of Horror“- Altered Esthetics Gallery - Minneapolis, MN
“Michele Capozzi Presents Pornology New York” - Chrystie Street Gallery
“Pay to Play, Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“This will Never Work: New Work by Robyn Desposito and Nikki Johnson”- Tribes Gallery
“Visual AIDS, Postcards from the Edge” Benefit Exhibition
“The Harlem Art Project” - Saatchi and Saatchi, NYC
“Sex and Death and Rock n’ Bones”, CBGB’s 313 Gallery
“Wish You Were Here” - AIR Gallery, New York, NY
“Nurturing the Edge” - NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Generations V” - AIR Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - "Mortuary Squad: Viewer Discretion Advised", Christie Street Galley, NYC"
"Square Foot Show" Artgotham Gallery
"Visual AIDS" - Galerie Lelong, NYC
"Charlie Parker Exhibition", Tribes Gallery
"Wish You Were Here" AIR Gallery, New York, NY
"Tribes Art Auction" - A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, NYC
2004 - "Threat" - A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
"Ascent" - Local Project, Long Island City, NY
"Generations 04" - AIR Gallery, NYC
2003 - "The Harlem Art Project Exhibition and Auction" - Saatchi and Saatchi, NYC
"Visual AIDS" - Galerie Lelong, NYC
"Version 9.0 of Violence Online Festival" - MAD'03, Festival for Electronic Art, Madrid, Spain
"Collision Machine" – D & S Knitwear, Brooklyn
"Night of 1,000 Drawings"- Artists Space, NYC
"Birds of a Feather: Chalie Parker Festival Exhibition - A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery
"September 11 th Photo Project" - New York Public Library, 42 nd St. Branch
"Howl! Art Auction and Benefit" - Angel Orensanz Church, NYC
"Art Around the Park 2003 " - Tompkins Square Park, NYC
"Howl! Festival Exhibition" - Fusion Arts Museum, NYC
"Art for Street's Sake Art presents: The Art and Performance Picnic" - La Plaza Cultural, NYC
"Girly: An Experiment in Exquisite Curating" - Naked Duck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Wish You Were Here, Too" - AIR Gallery, NYC
2002 -”Night of 1,000 Drawings"- Artists Space, NYC
"Beautiful & Terrible"- Southpaw, Brooklyn, NYC
"Version 2.0 of Violence Online Festival" - Computer Space Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Version 2.0 of Violence Online Festival" - Liberarti Festival, Liverpool Biennale, England
"Nightlife"- Freight, NYC
"Spitfest"- La Plaza Cultural Community Park, NYC
"Wish You Were Here!” - A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
"Colored White Women"- Bullet Space, NYC
"Frames From the Edge" - Nikki Johnson & Michelle Elmore, Mississippi University for Women
"Facing Herself" - Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
"Generations III" - A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
"REACTIONS" - Exit Art, New York, NY
"Body in Motion, Bedlam in Mind" - Galapagos, Brooklyn NY
2001 - "Dia Del Arte Correo / Mail Art Day" sponsored by Vortice Argentina, Buenos Aires
"Push the Envelope II" - Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City
"Maps" - Four Corners, NYC
"Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" - 116 Prince St., NYC
"The September 11 Photo Project" - 29 Wooster St., NYC
"From the Ashes" - Cuando 9, NYC
"A Night of Peace" - Catch 22 Gallery, NYC
"FACINGFACES" - Ciudad Jurez, Chih. Mexico
"First Fridays Art Walk " - The Skinny Gallery, Portland, ME
"Spitfest 2001" - La Plaza Cultural, NYC
"Boobs in Babeland"- Toys in Babeland, NYC
"Tributary Exhibition & Benefit Auction" - A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
"Mississippi University for Women Homecoming Exhibition, Columbus, MS
"Member's Slide Show" - The Exhibitionists & JUMP Arts, Brecht Forum, NYC
2000 - "Biennale d'Arte Fotografica del Mediterraneo 2000" online exhibition, curated by
The Mediterranean Foundation for Art, Cagliari, Italy
"Memorial Day" - The Pink Pony, New York, NY
"Shadows and Dreams"- Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville NC
"Phone Book" / "The Doll Leg Show" series shown @ X Off Gallery, New York, NY
"Peepsho