Painting serves as a critical departure point for Helen Johnson’s practice, as a set of tools that work beyond language to encircle a range of contemporary issues. Her works engage a broad visual vernacular, including spasming stock market graphs, fragments of text from the bygone days of pre-mechanised mining and logging, desert islands and the layout of the Australian Parliament House. Both loaded and contextually specific, the imagery is treated with an insistently aesthetic approach, with an implicit claim for the continuing possibility of critical engagement through reflective aesthetic experience. The building up of layered surfaces is not merely a technically-driven choice, but also serves as a metaphor for some of the complexities and interplay that operate in the ongoing formation of Australian identity—including ‘the persistence of denialist accounts of colonisation, the relationship between personal and official histories, and more fleeting cultural trends that spike the mix, becoming ever present as we lean into the internet’.
Helen Johnson was born in 1979 in Melbourne, Australia. Johnson received her BFA Painting (Hons) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne and a PHD (Fine Art) from Monash University, Melbourne in 2014. Selected solo exhibitions include: Barron Field, Glasgow International (2016); Cafe Fatigue, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2015); The body is through, Laurel Gitlen, New York (2015); Slow Learners, Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2015); Ex-execs, Minerva, Sydney (2014); Time Flies, Sutton Projects, Melbourne (2014); At Once (in collaboration with Adelle Mills), 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney (2014); Just Paintings (in collaboration with George Egerton Warburton and Hamishi Farah), Westspace, Melbourne (2014); Problem History, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (2014); Time enough for love, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne (2013); Meantime, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2013); Air to Surface (with Parker Ito), Prism, Los Angeles (Curated by Liv Barrett) (2013).Dead Metaphor, ACME Project Space, London (2012); Universal Remote, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (2011); and System Preferences, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2011).
Selected group exhibitions include: Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016); TarraWarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2016); I wish I never kissed that frog, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam (2015); Relational Changes, Christine König Galerie, Vienna (2015); In my absence, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (2015); June: A Painting Show, Sadie Coles, London (2015); Care, Interstate, New York (2015); Nine paintings presentation, The Alderman, Melbourne (2014); Faux Museum, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2014); Re-raising Consciousness, TCB, Melbourne (2014); Air to Surface: Parker Ito and Helen Johnson, Prism, Los Angeles (2013); Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013); Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012); Chinatown: the sequel, ltd Los Angeles (2012); Art & Australia Collection 2003 – 2013, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales (2012); Stick It! Collage in Australia Art, The Ian Potter Center: National Gallery of Victoria (2010); The Independence Project, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur (2007); Present Future, Artissima, Turin (2007); Octopus 6, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2006); and New06, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006).
Johnson has undertaken international studio residencies in London, Norway and Germany. She was also a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary between 2003 and 2005, and Artspace, Sydney, in 2012.
Helen Johnson lives and works in Melbourne
Born 1979 in Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Warm Ties, Artspace, Sydney — AU
2017
Ends, New Museum, New York – US
Warm Ties, Chapter, Cardiff – UK
Warm Ties, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – UK
2016
Keep your voice low and you can win any point, Art Basel Statements, Basel – CH
Barron Field, Glasgow International, Director’s Programme, curated by Sarah McCrory, Glasgow – UK
2015
Cafe Fatigue, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne – AU
The body is through, Laurel Gitlen, New York – US
Slow Learners, Château Shatto, Los Angeles – US
2014
Ex-execs, Minerva, Sydney – AU
Time Flies, Sutton Projects, Melbourne – AU
At Once (in collaboration with Adelle Mills), 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney – AU
Just Paintings (in collaboration with George Egerton Warburton and Hamishi Farah), Westspace, Melbourne – AU
Problem History, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne – AU
I can spare what you asked for, flag for the Westgate Bridge, in association with Melbourne Now at the NGV (in collaboration with Brook Andrew, Jon Campbell and Kate Daw) – AU
2013
Time enough for love, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne – AU
Meantime, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne – AU
Air to Surface (with Parker Ito), Prism, curated by Liv Barrett, Los Angeles – US
2012
Dead Metaphor, ACME Project Space, London – UK
2011
System Preferences, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne – AU
Universal Remote, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne – AU
2010
An Effort of Memory, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne – AU
2009
On the Make, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne – AU
Love over Gold, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne – AU
2007
Do not go gentle into that goodnight, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne – AU
Some thoughts on interiority, Summer residency presentation, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany – DE
Australia in the the Seventies, Joint Hassles, Melbourne – AU
2005
Customs and Mods, Galleri Schnauzer, Oslo – NO
Not to be confused with the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (in collaboration with Kylie Forbes), ClubsProject Inc., Melbourne – AU
The time has come to unlearn almost everything you know, Little Salon, Melbourne – AU
2004
Like theatre, like perfume they are dreaming of themselves, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne – AU
You must have been in strange places, Westspace, Melbourne Live at the Obelisk, Bus Gallery, Melbourne – AU
Live at the Obelisk, Bus Gallery, Melbourne – AU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
The National 2017, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney — AU
2016
Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Annika Kristensen, Hannah Mathews and Max Delany, Melbourne – AU
TarraWarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Museum of Art, curated by Helen Hughes/Discipline magazine and Victoria Lynn, Tarrawarra, Victoria – AU
2015
I wish I never kissed that frog, Jeanine Hofland, curated by Sjoerd Kloosterhuis, Amsterdam – NL
Of deceit, Greenwood Street Project, organised by Tomislav Nickolic, Melbourne – AU
Pleasure and Reality, National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Jane Devery and Serena Bently, Melbourne – AU
Relational Changes, Christine König Galerie, curated by Valentin Ruhry and Andy Boot, Vienna – AT
In my absence, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, curated by Dorothea Jendricke, Paris – FR
June: A Painting Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London – UK
The Material Turn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, curated by Rebecca Coates, Melbourne – AU
Care, Interstate, curated by Dana Kopel and Marian Tubbs, New York – US
I refuse to participate in failure, SPREEZ, curated by Philipp Reitsam, Munich – DE
2014
Nine paintings presentation, The Alderman, curated by Renee Cosgrave and Merryn Lloyd, Melbourne – AU
Fin, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne – AU
Re-raising Consciousness,TCB, curated by Fayen Devie, Katherine Hattam and Harriet Morgan, Melbourne – AU
Sunny and Hilly, Minerva, Sydney – AU
Sublet, 50 Napier Street, curated by Matthew Linde and Brennan Olver, Fitzroy – AU
2013
Method and Gesture, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne – AU
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne – AU
Monochrome Exhibition, Sutton Projects, curated by David Homewood, Melbourne – AU
Mural Problem, Otras Obras, curated by Fiona Connor, Tijuana – AU
Decline, Top Shelf, curated by Harriet Kate Morgan, Melbourne – AU
Third/Fourth, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, curated by Christopher L G Hill, Melbourne – AU
Wavy Banners Project, ET4U, curated by Karen Havskov Jensen and Klavs Weiss, Vemb – DK
Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne – AU
2012
Negotiating this world, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne – AU
Art & Australia Collection 2003-2013, Regional touring exhibition, various venues, New South Wales – AU
Ode to Form, Westspace, curated by Kelly Fliedner, Melbourne – AU
Chinatown: the sequel, LTD, curated by Liv Barrett, Los Angeles– US
Temperament Spectrum, Sutton Gallery, curated by Liza Statton, Melbourne– AU
Of Virgins, Greenwood Street Projects, Melbourne – AU
2011
Art2: Horsham, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, curated by Hannah Mathews, Melbourne – AU
Subtext, UnProjects at Westspace, Melbourne – AU
You’re Welcome, Fundraiser for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, Mars Gallery, Melbourne – AU
2010
Stick It! Collage in Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Alisa Bunbury, Melbourne – AU
Addition/Erasure, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne – AU
2009
Octopus 9: I forget to forget, curated by Stephen Gilchrist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra – AU
Cross Colouring, curated by Harriet Morgan & Sean Bailey, Hell Gallery, Melbourne – AU; Gambia Castle, Auckland – NZ
Order/Disorder, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne – AU
2008
Y2K Artist Run Artist Funded Melbourne Biennale, curated by Christopher L G Hill, TCB, Melbourne – AU
Robert and Bobby Creely perform ‘Listen’ (1972 Radio Play), curated by Harriet Morgan, Joint Hassles, Melbourne – AU
The Library Project, coordinated by Pat Foster and Jen Berean for Frankston City Library, Melbourne – AU
The Nightclub Project: Everybody’s Free, Billboard for Next Wave Festival, Melbourne – AU
Skin and Bones, curated by Patrick O’Brien, Bus Gallery, Melbourne – AU
The Monobrow Show, Hell Gallery, Melbourne – AU
2007
The Independence Project, curated by Alexie Glass, Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur – MY
A Bridge too Far, curated by Jacqui Doughty, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne – AU
eg., curated by Bryony Nainby, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart – AU
2006
Octopus 6: We know who we are, curated by Zara Stanhope, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale – AU
New06, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne – AU
Escape Artist-Run Artist Party, curated by Christopher Hill, High Street Project, Christchurch – NZ Great Dividing Range, curated by Lisa Byrne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra – AU
Group Show, curated by Sean Bailey and Harriet Morgan, Joint Hassles, Melbourne – AU
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015
Language Face, Minerva, offsite, Melbourne – AU
2014
WORK, Slopes, Melbourne – AU
2011
Love in the Mourning, Death be Kind, Melbourne – AU
2009
New World Records, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Ugly Heritage, Joint Hassles, Melbourne – AU
Informal Rituals, TBC, Melbourne (with Alex Vivian) – AU
2005
Slide exhibition program 2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourn – AU
EDUCATION
2014
PHD (Fine Art), Monash University, Melbourne
2002
BFA Painting (Hons), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
2016
Creative Victoria VicArts Grant
2015
Mollie Holman Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, Monash University, Melbourne
2014
Artist in Residence, Princes Hill Primary School, Melbourne
Australian War Memorial ANZAC Centenary Print Portfolio Commission
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Artists’ Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts (with Adelle Mills)
2012
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
London Studio Residency, Australia Council for the Arts
2011
Artspace residency, Sydney
2009
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2008
Australian Postgraduate Award
2007
Residency, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
Summer Residency, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Arts Development (Creation) Grant, Arts Victoria
Ripe Award for Emerging Artists, Art and Australia/NAVA
2006
Arts Development (Presentation) Grant, Arts Victoria
2005
Residency, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, Dale, Norway
Travel Grant, Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2004
Studio residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
PUBLISHED WRITING
2016
Contribution to Artists Writing, 2000–2015, Jennifer Liese (ed.), New York: Paper Monument (forthcoming)
Critical Ambiguity: A Kantian Reading of Recent Work by Juan Davila,’ Discipline, Issue #4, March
‘Portfolio: Helen Johnson,’ Frieze Online, August 2016 https://frieze.com/article/portfolio-helen-johnson
2015
‘Helen Grace’ – contribution to Frieze Masters: Artists’ Artists, Jennifer Higgie (ed.)
Painting is a critical form (book), published by 3Ply, Melbourne
I paint the ground that is beneath my feet – catalogue essay for Ann Debono at Caves, Melbourne
Porosity, machine, subtraction, substitution: on the formal address to politics in works by Brighid Fitzgerald, Rosie Isaac, Nicholas Mangan and Tom Nicholson – with Justin Clemens, Un Magazine, Pip Wallis (ed.), Autumn
Introductory essay for NEW15 catalogue (curated by Matt Hinkley), ACCA, Melbourne
Cover image for Little Star weekly, January 23
2014
Kippenberger aus Australien – Catalogue text for Martin Kippenberger (curated by Geoff Newton), Neon Parc, Melbourne
Contribution to ‘8 Painters on Painting’ (Jennifer Higgie), Frieze Issue #160, January, February
The Now is Not Present, Catalogue essay for Damiano Bertoli, Continuous Moment: Sordid’s Hotel at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013
Memory is not a recording device: On Eliza Hutchison’s ‘Hair in the Gate, a biograph’, Un Magazine, Jarrod Rawlins (ed.), Spring
Is the research your practice, or is the practice your research?, Un Magazine, Jarrod Rawlins (ed.), Autumn
‘Exinterior: On Stanislaw Lem’, Science Fiction/World Making, Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes (eds.), Surpllus, Melbourne
‘Lend me your ear: On Hany Armanious’s “Fountain”’, Discipline, issue 3
Fiona Connor: Bare Use, catalogue contribution for Fiona Connor at Hopkinson Cundy, Frieze Art Fair, New York
2012
‘It seems like everybody knows everybody already so let’s get to work’, Un Magazine, Summer
‘On contemporary art and criticality’, paper presented at the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
‘Scott Mitchell: A silent modification of the specific present’, Un Magazine, Autumn
‘Mira Gojak: A moment an immeasurable whole’, Discipline, issue 2, Autumn
2011
‘Review: Christoph Menke, Daniel Loick, Isabelle Graw, ‘“The Power of Judgment: A Debate on Aesthetic Critique”’, Discipline, issue 1, Winter
Artist’s pages, Discipline, issue 1, Winter
‘Groundwork’, Subtext: Artists and Writing, UnProjects for Westspace, Melbourne
‘Treason and Crime’, Reason and Rhyme, catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and St Paul St, Auckland
Act Natural, catalogue essay for Annika Koops’s exhibition of the same name, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
The Gift and the Curse, catalogue essay for Drew Pettifer’s exhibition of the same name, various venues, Melbourne
2009
New World Records, catalogue essay, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Nathan, catalogue contribution for Attack Decay Sustain Release by Nathan Gray, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2008
Gone Bush, catalogue contribution for A Time Like This, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Kate Smith, artist page for Un Magazine, Issue 2.2
The Superpit, catalogue essay for Brodie Ellis’ exhibition of the same name, Conical, Melbourne
Happy Days, review, Jason Heller and Lucreccia Quintanilla for The South Project
Strange 4 (cover image), postgraduate journal of creative writing, The University of Melbourne
2007
‘Seeing things in black and white: Deutsher and Hill’, Whitehot Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 7, October
‘Door Slamming Festival at Mehringdamm 72’, Whitehot Contemporary Art Magazine, issue 4, May
Black River (illustrations), published by Re:Press, Melbourne
Omnipraxis, catalogue essay for Omnipresents by Christopher L G Hill, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2011
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2009
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2008
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Day, Charlotte, A Plan for Living (cat.), for Artissima 07, November
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Heron, Nicholas, Do not go gentle into that goodnight (cat.), Sutton Gallery
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2006
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HELEN JOHNSON: ENDS AT NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK
Ends New Museum, New York 13 September 2017 – 14 January 2018 Helen Johnson’s densely layered canvases incorporate historical imagery ranging from political cartoons, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century painting, architectural diagrams and maps, fragments of bodies, and handwritten text rendered with … More
Helen Johnson part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Tate joint collection
To mark International Museum Day, which this year explores the theme of contested histories, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Tate today announced the acquisition of five additional artworks in their International Joint Acquisition Program for contemporary Australian … More
Helen Johnson, Warm Ties at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Warm Ties is a solo exhibition of Australian artist Helen Johnson, in collaboration with Artspace, Sydney. Johnson weaves and overlays historical and contemporary signifiers creating points of tension and reflection through the medium of painting. In this exhibition, the complex … More
Vitamin P3 | New Perspectives in Painting featuring Helen Johnson, Sabine Moritz, Elizabeth Neel and Mary Ramsden
Out now! Vitamin P3 – New Perspectives in Painting The next installment in the popular Vitamin series – the world’s hottest painters, selected by international expert featuring Helen Johnson, Sabine Moritz, Elizabeth Neel, and Mary Ramsden by Phaidon Editors Buy here
Kit Wise, Helen Johnson, Frieze, November 2013 (Download PDF)
Shelley McSpedden, Game Changer, eyelineshelley, 2011 (Download PDF)
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