About

Jennifer Johnson is a contemporary portrait and abstract artist who studied photography at the College of Visual Design in Minneapolis. For the past decade, she has been quietly creating work inspired by gestural abstraction, surrealism, cubism, and abstract expressionism. 

Her work draws on a rich lineage of female artists who have explored themes of agency, perception, and the female experience, from the surrealist dreamscapes of Leonora Carrington, to the raw emotionality of abstract expressionists like Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell. Her practice is a continuation of these avant-garde dialogues, investigating the intersection of gender, identity, and power in a contemporary context.

When she’s not in her studio, Johnson is holding down a day job as a design leader. She works out of her studio in Southern California.