SUE JOHNSON
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Sue Johnson's work has been shown nationally and internationally. Born in San Francisco, CA, Johnson currently lives and works in Richmond, VA and Lexington Park, MD. She earned a BFA in Painting from Syracuse University and an MFA in Painting from Columbia University, and studied painting in London, England and Florence, Italy with Syracuse University.

Her work has been the subject of over thirty one-person exhibitions at venues that include the Tweed Museum of Art, Jan Cicero Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Pitt Rivers Museum, Midwest Museum of American Art, Swarthmore College, Anderson Gallery/VCU, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, and University of Richmond Museums. Grants include awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts/Mid Atlantic Foundation Fellowship, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Selected residency fellowships include the Arts/Industry Program, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Mac Dowell Colony, Millay Colony, Art Omi International Artist Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, City of Salzburg/Salzburg Kunstlerhaus Residency Fellowship, Jentel Foundation, American Philosophical Society/Andre Michaux Library Research Fellowship, and American Antiquarian Society research fellowship.  Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Art Examiner, and Art Papers. Her work is in numerous public collections including MOMA/Franklin Furnace Archive, Yale University Libraries, U.S. Embassy Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Smithsonian American Art Museum Libraries, Prudential Life Insurance, Bristol-Myers/Squibb, Tweed Museum of Art, Maier Museum of Art, Bucknell University, Francis J. Greenburger Foundation, and many others. 

In 2010-11 Johnson served as Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in Oxford, England.  Also in 2011, she was awarded a residency fellowship at CAMAC/Centre D'Art Marnay Art Centre in France, and was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. She continues as an associate researcher for the Rethinking Pitt Rivers project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.  An exhibition of her work, The Nature of Curious Objects: Sue Johnson's Paper Museum will be on view at the Pitt Rivers Museum 24 January - 10 June, 2012. Johnson is a professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History at St. Mary's College of Maryland.