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Marc Johnson
Born1986 (age 38–39)
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
NationalityFrench–Beninese
Alma materÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Websitemarcjohnson.fr

Marc Johnson is a French–Beninese visual artist, filmmaker, and architect.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Johnson was born in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, in 1986.[3] From 2006 to 2011, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris.[4] During this period, he completed exchange programs at Hunter College in New York City (2009–2010) and in at the Hangzhou Academy of Art in China.[5] From 2011 to 2013, Johnson studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais.[4][5]

Career

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Johnson began exhibiting his work in the early 2010s. His 2014 short film, YúYú, was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 and was part of The Yvonne Rainer Project at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, an exhibition curated by Chantal Pontbriand.[6][7][8] In 2016, the film won the Best Short Film Award at the Las Palmas International Film Festival.[9][10] In 2017, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis presented YúYú as a solo exhibition in collaboration with the Kramlich collection.[3][11] Also in 2017, Johnson exhibited Rite of Spring at the 3CHA art center in Châteaugiron and the installation fecund lacuna: art, archaeology, genetics at La Maréchalerie in Versailles.[12] In 2020, Johnson presented YúYú at the Centre Pompidou as part of the Fast Forward section of China Africa: Crossing the world color line.[13]

The book associated with the fecund lacuna project, titled fecund lacuna / lacune féconde (2017), won the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing.[14][15] His 2017 short film, Ultraviolet, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and received the Honorable mention for Best Experimental Short at the Milwaukee Film Festival the same year.[16][17][18] Johnson’s work was also shown at the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art in 2017 and 2018 and at venues including the Centre National Édition Art Image (CNEAI) and Ginza Maison Hermès.[19] In 2024, Galerie Mitterrand in Paris held a solo exhibition of his series The Sea is History (After Derek Walcott).[20]

Selected exhibitions

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Solo

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  • 2024: Galerie Mitterand, The Sea is History (After Derek Walcott), Paris, France[21]
  • 2017: YuYu, Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, in collaboration with the Kramlich Collection, United States[22]
  • 2017: Rite of Spring, 3 CHA Centre for Contemporary Art, Châteaugiron, France
  • 2016: fecund lacuna: art, archaeology, genetics, La Maréchalerie Centre for Contemporary Art, Versailles, France
  • 2016: Videorama, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. – Zentrum für Medienkunst, Germany

Group

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  • 2025: Kulturnatt Stockholm 2025, Bromska palatset, La Résidence de France, le Palais Broms, Sweden[23]
  • 2024: Liljevalchs Konsthall, The Stockholm Cosmology, Stockholm, Sweden[24]
  • 2024: Art Paris Art Fair, Fragile Utopias: A Focus on the French Scene, Galerie Mitterrand, Grand Palais Éphémère – Champ-de-Mars, Paris, France
  • 2022: Ghosts of the Machine, screening program, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada[25]
  • 2020: Manifesta 13, Les Parallèles du Sud, Marseille, France[26]
  • 2018: Abracadabra!, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Curator: Moscow, Russia
  • 2018: OLHO, Museo de Arte Moderna, Curator: Vanina Saracino, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • 2017: ATM tempo I/II/III, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2016: constellation•s, new ways of living in the world, arc en rêve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux, France[27]
  • 2016: Deep Inside, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
  • 2015: trans(¿)duction, CNEAI= Centre National Edition Art Image, Chatou, France
  • 2014: The Yvonne Rainer Project, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
  • 2010: Ligne of chance, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, France

Books

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  • Johnson, Marc, Dana Claxton, Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Peter Morin, Anthony Shelton and al., Parley: How would you feel about being denied the opportunity to speak your ancestral language? Edited by Marc Johnson, Vancouver Biennale and Stockholm University of the Arts, 2024.[28]
  • Marc Johnson, Eric Crubezy, and al. Fecund lacuna: Art, Archaeology, Genetics, Analogues & La Maréchalerie, 2016.[29]

References

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  1. ^ Krivian, Astrid (8 May 2024). "Marc Johnson". Afrique Magazine.
  2. ^ Naessens, Ophélie (9 May 2018). "Marc Johnson: a fertile gap". Critique d’art. All reading notes online. doi:10.4000/critiquedart.25818.
  3. ^ a b "Marc Johnson: YúYú". Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. University of California, Davis. 21 August 2018.
  4. ^ a b "German Guest Programme". KLEX.
  5. ^ a b "Les Beaux-Arts de Paris présentent ATLAS de Marc Johnson, du 10 au 16 novembre 2011". Sortir ici et ailleurs (in French). 23 September 2011.
  6. ^ "Marc Johnson". Vancouver Biennale.
  7. ^ "YúYú". Berlin International Film Festival. 2015.
  8. ^ "The Yvonne Rainer Project. From choreography to cinema". Jeudepaume.org.
  9. ^ Forero Varela, Luis Enrique (13 March 2016). "Palmarés del Festival de Las Palmas 2016". El antepenúltimo mohicano (in Spanish).
  10. ^ "Awards 2016". Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 2016.
  11. ^ Odman, Sydney. "Manetti Shrem Museum of Art features new exhibitions".
  12. ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Marc Johnson" (PDF). marcjohnson.fr. 2019.
  13. ^ "China Africa: Crossing the world color line".
  14. ^ "Paris artist wins NGV art and design book prize". 17 March 2017.
  15. ^ "The National Gallery of Victoria Announces the Winner of 15000 Inaugural Art Book Prize" (PDF). National Gallery of Victoria. 16 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Marc Johnson". Filmform.
  17. ^ "15 Indie Films Projects Win 2017 Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund Grants". VIMooZ. 18 December 2017.
  18. ^ "Announcing the MFF2018 Jury Award Winners!". Milwaukee Film. 29 October 2018.
  19. ^ "Marc Johnson & Hitomi Ohki". PARSE Journal.
  20. ^ "Marc Johnson: The Sea is History (After Derek Walcott)" (PDF). DailyArtFair. 29 March 2024.
  21. ^ Javault, Patrick (12 April 2024). "Flaques, souffle et mille-pattes".
  22. ^ "Artists".
  23. ^ "Kulturnatt – Bland gobelängerna: tappa inte tråden…". Institut Français de Suède (in Swedish). Institut Français de Suède. 26 April 2025.
  24. ^ Thomas Olsson (28 July 2024). "Recension: Stockholms kosmologi på Liljevalchs". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  25. ^ "Bodies in Flux". The Polygon Gallery. The Polygon Gallery. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  26. ^ "WE ARE OCEAN". Bleu Tomate (in French). Bleu Tomate. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  27. ^ "Constellation.s exhibition brochure" (PDF). Arc en rêve centre d'architecture. Arc en rêve centre d'architecture. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  28. ^ "Parley". WorldCat. OCLC. 2024. ISBN 9789188407474. OCLC 1407425764. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  29. ^ "Marc Johnson, Lacune féconde : art, archéologie, génétique : exposition, Versailles, La Maréchalerie-Centre d'art contemporain, 15 avril – 3 juillet 2016". Catalogue général (Bibliothèque nationale de France) (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2016. ISBN 9782358640985. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
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