education
2002 M.F.A. Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology
1999 Courses in Painting & Photography, Studio Art Centers International,
Florence
1999 B.F.A. Photography & Graphic Design, Marywood University
selected exhibitions (*solo shows marked by asterisk)
2008
* My Glass is Bigger than Yours (forthcoming), Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
2007
9th Annual Art Auction Preview Exhibition, Bemis Center
for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2007 Faculty Triennial, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA,
Curated by Lorie Mertes
It was easy. It was all new., Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hello Cleveland!, Publico, Cincinnati, OH
Inside/Insight, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, VT, Curated
by Ruth Erickson
2006
Dear Fleisher, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
SubTerrane, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by
Sean Stoops
SubTerrane, www.subterrane.org, Curated by Sean Stoops
word, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Juror: Cornelia Butler
2005
INHABIT: an apartment installation, 806 South 48th St., Apt. 2-R, Philadelphia
PA,
Curated by Sean Stoops
2004
Shutters, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Curated by
Sandra Firmin
Philadelphia Selections 5, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA, Curated
by Brian Wallace
* Challenge 4, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Picturing What Matters, The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2001
* 5 photographs (M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition), Meridian Centre, Rochester,
NY
R.I.T. Student Honors Show, S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester, NY
An Exhibition of Canal St. Artists, Canal St. Studios, Rochester, NY
2000
Work by Buffalo, Syracuse, & R.I.T. M.F.A. Students, S.P.A.S. Gallery,
Rochester, NY
More Than Several, S.P.A.S. Gallery, Rochester, NY
exhibitions curated
2007
the sudden and the temporary (co-curator with Corey Antis), Vox Populi
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
selected awards/honors
2007
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2007 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship
2006
Purchase award for Arcadia University permanent collection
2001
R.I.T. Student Honors Show
collections
Private Collection, Omaha, NE
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
residencies
2007
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
selected lectures/workshops/critiques
2007
Gallery Talk, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery Talk, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Re-imagining Space/Re-inventing Place, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,
Omaha, NE
Gallery Talk, Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, VT
2006
Gallery Talk, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Artist's Lecture, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Guest Critique with Sculpture Studies Class, The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Artist's Lecture, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
gallery affiliation
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
selected bibliography
Libby Rosof, "The slippery truth – contemporary art photography," Roberta
Fallon and Libby Rosof’s artblog,
October 2, 2007, http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007/10/slippery-truth-contemporary-art.html
Annette Monnier, "Trailer for the Future of Vox," Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction, August 24, 2007,
http://artintheage.com/post.php?x=221&m=8&y=2007
Roberta Fallon, "My Vox in a Box," Philadelphia Weekly, August 14, 2007, 32
Lorie Mertes, "2007 Faculty Triennial Catalogue," Exhibition Catalogue, Philadelphia: The Galleries at Moore, 2007.
Cary Tobin, Interview, BC Podcasts, Omaha, Nebraska, July 17, 2007.
http://www.bemiscenter.org/includes/downloads/jimjohnsonair07.m4a
Marc Awodey, "Inner Vision," Seven Days, March 28, 2007, 32A
Laura James, "Laughing and Thinking," CityBeat, March 14, 2007,
http://www.citybeat.com/2007-03-14/art.shtml.
"mirrors of big twofold, old forgiveness glass with deficiencies [crystalline],
[['itk].]," Wonka Vision Magazine,
Issue # 35, March 2007, 70.
Libby Rosof, "A conversation with James Johnson," Roberta Fallon
and Libby Rosof’s artblog, June 14, 2006,
http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2006/06/conversation-with-james-johnson.html.
current appointment
Assistant Professor, Chair, Photography and Digital Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA