Mariah Anne Johnson

Mariah Anne Johnson is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, where she spent her childhood studying dance and attending art classes at the Arkansas Arts Center. She focused on art and English at Rice University and was a member of Rice Dance Theatre. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois in 2006. Her work has been exhibited around the USA, from Los Angeles to New York, Houston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where she lived and worked from 2009 until 2018.

From 2011-2018, Mariah was a lecturer in painting and drawing at George Washington University; she was artist in residence at Montgomery College’s Cafritz Center during spring 2012. Her recent projects include a 2016 solo exhibition at BlackRock Center for the Arts, and a year-long site specific artwork in her backyard, titled Backyard Sublime: Meadow Project, involving gardening, performance, drawing, and social media. During 2016 and 2017, she undertook a series of international artist residencies in Viborg, Denmark; Berlin, Germany; and Hafnarfjörđur, Iceland. 2017 also marked Mariah’s return to dance, as she began performing with darlingdance company. In summer 2018 she relocated to Los Angeles and looks forward to the shifts in her practice that new surroundings will bring.

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