Devin B. Johnson

visual art, 2x4

Devin B. Johnson (visual art, 2×4) was born in Los Angeles in 1992 and obtained his BA in fine arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and his master’s of fine arts at Pratt Institute (2019). In addition to being named a 2023 Artist in Residence for Fountainhead, Miami, he was selected as an Artsy Vanguard (2022), named to Forbes “30 Under 30 Art and Design” list (2022), was included in Cultured’s “Young Artists 2021,” and was one of 16 artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency (2020). Johnson’s work is collected by Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pond Society, Shanghai; the Rubell Museum, Miami; the Columbus Museum of Art; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; and many others. Exhibitions include Ritual of Welcome, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024, solo); Black Rock Senegal, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, North Carolina (2024); Social Abstraction, curated by Antwaun Sargeant, Gagosian, Los Angeles and Hong Kong (2024); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); Samantha Joy Groﬀ, Devin B. Johnson, Katherina Olschbaur, Nicodim, New York (2023); Forms, Jeﬀrey Deitch and Gagosian, Miami (2023); Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); PRESENT ‘23, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2023); Ritornellos, Nicoletti Contemporary, London (2023); Maternity Leave: None of Women Born, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); Night Owl, Massimo de Carlo (2022); Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal (2022); Between Ground and Sky, Nicodim, New York (2022, solo); My Heart Cries, I Set Out an Offering for You, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021, solo); Long Walk, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021, solo); Melody of a Memory, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020, solo); When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020); Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeﬀrey Deitch, Nicodim, AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles (2020); Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty, Residency Gallery, Inglewood (2019, solo); and Incognito, ICA LA, Los Angeles (2019).