JOHANNA
JOHANNA is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She works within the space of in-between—where belonging is uncertain and identity is continuously negotiated. Her practice explores how migration, memory, labor, and education shape the self not as a fixed entity, but as something assembled over time. She is drawn to moments when narratives fracture and clarity slips, treating incompleteness not as failure but as truth.
At the center of her inquiry is vision itself: what it means to see, and what always remains outside the frame of recognition. She understands perception as mediated—shaped by culture, technology, and history—and asks how images both reveal and withhold what they claim to show.
Her work approaches fragmentation as structure, a way of thinking and feeling rather than a problem to be solved. Through gestures of repetition and interruption, JOHANNA evokes identity as unfinished—formed in echoes, gaps, and returns—and invites viewers into that liminal space where meaning is felt before it is named.
Autobiographical, her works reference themes of education, identity, labor, politics, and time.
She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from SUNY Purchase College.