David L. Johnson

David L. Johnson was born in 1993 in New York City. Johnson’s work, uses photography, video, found and stolen objects, and installation to document and intervene in the spatial politics of cities with attention to the quotidian. Johnson received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program and a part-time lecturer at the New School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin; Art Lot, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); MoMA PS1, New York; Artists Space, New York; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, (2022); Theta, New York (2021). His work is in the public collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.