merritt johnson

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Education

2005   Massachusetts College of Art, MFA

2003   Carnegie Mellon University, BFA

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2011    Animal Influence
            Interactive Futures Conference Exhibition
            Emily Carr University Gallery, Vancouver BC

            Salish Seas
            Exhibition and publication (Talon Books)
            Gallery Gachet, Vancouver BC

2010    Clouds live where*
            Performed for the Evergreen Gallery, Olympia, WA

            It’s Complicated: Art about Home
            Evergreen Gallery, Evergreen College, Olympia, WA

            Migrant Professor*
            Performed on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, U.S./Canadian Border

            Sky Dome (props, patches, rips, and tears)*
            Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia          

2009    Double Self Double
            MacKenzie Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
            Collaborative Performance with Maria Hupfield

2008    Sneak and Lock-pick 
            Presented by Vancouver Live Biennale Performance Society
            and the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
            Intersections Digital Studios, ECUAD, Vancouver, British Colombia

            Museum Quality Migration
            Performed between the Museum of the American Indian & Metropolitan Museum of Art
            Collaborative Performance with Maria Hupfield, New York, NY

            Museum Quality
            Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, United States,
            Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Colombia
            Collaborative Performances with Maria Hupfield

2007    The 1950 Ford Show
            Art Gallery of Alberta
            Edmonton, Alberta

            Baby George Washington carried across the river by an Indian skin boat*
            White River AR

2005    Some Sort of Uncertainty
            Patricia Doran Gallery
            Boston MA

            Birds as we would be, ink and cotton: sculpture and drawings*
            Eastworks
            Easthampton MA

           MFA Thesis Exhibition *
            Bakalar Gallery
            Massachusetts College of Art
            Boston MA

2004    The Ocean is Never Sad (drawings and sculpture)*
            Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston MA

            Dress Rehearsal: and then the Elephants came In*
            Performance, MassArt Theatre Boston MA
    
2003    Earthworms Uprooted, they were once in the mud
            In collaboration with William Earl Kofmehl III
            Sculpture on the Trail: Farmington Canal Trail, Artspace 6
            New Haven CT

* solo show   
                                                                        

Selected Activity

2011    This Was Never a Knife Fight
            Speaker
            Interactive Futures New Media Conference

2011    The Inherently Political Action of Being Indigenous (unapologetically and mixed)
            Presenter, Panelist
            CAA 2011 conference session “Potentialities of Performance”

2010    Adjudicator, Haida Museum
            Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, British Colombia

2009    Adjudicator, Vancouver Olympics Aboriginal Arts Commission
            VANOC, Vancouver, British Colombia

2007    Panelist, Continuum Show: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
            Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

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