Merritt Johnson

Merritt Johnson’s work is a navigation of peripheries, intersectionality, separation and connection.  Her multidisciplinary works are containers for thought and feeling. For two decades Johnson has used her work to contribute to ending the oppression of bodies, land, sex, and culture. Her practice is a synthesis of necessity, as well as a refusal of binaries, fractions of division, and control. She embraces peripheral overlap and the impossibility of disentanglement. Johnson is a pan-sexual cis-gender woman of mixed descent, she is not claimed by, nor a citizen of any nation from which she descends. Johnson is the mother and stepmother of six children. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston). Her work is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art in New York. She lives and works with her family on Lingít Aani, her partner’s home territory, in Sitka, Alaska. (Last updated March 15, 2021.)