POEM JOHNSON
Award-winning artist, filmmaker and educator

I am a poet, time-based and textile artist.
I combine materiality with the geopoetic.
I create speculative and critical fabulations.
I am enacting a tidalectic counter-historiography.
I future and ping-pong with time.


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NEWS 2026
- Museum  acquires textile.
- Maritime Museum Paris curate works.
- Swedish art center curate solo exhibition.

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CV

EDUCATION
2026 PhD, Stockholm University Arts, Sweden
2013 MArch, Paris-Malaquais, France
2011 MFA, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2009 BFA, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

VISITING PROGRAMS
2012 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2010 Hunter College, CUNY, United States
 


SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

2023
- Production Grant, Buschlen Mowatt Nichol Foundation, Canada
- Artist Fellowship, French Ministry of Culture, DRAC, France 

2019 
- Mobility grant for artists, i-Portunus, Creative Europe, UK
-Screenwriting Grant, Île-de-France Region, Cinema Department, France

2018
- Artist Fellowship, French Ministry of Culture, DRAC, France
-Best Experimental Short Award, 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival, United States

2017
- Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
-Rooftop Filmmakers Fund Short Film Grant, Rooftop Film, United States
-Production Grant, CNC Dicréam, France

2016
- Best Short Film Award, International Film Festival de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
-Production Grant, CNC Dicréam, France

2015
- 3rd Prize, experimental, Athens International Film + Video Festival (AIFVF), United States.

2009
-LVMH Young Artist Award, LVMH Foundation, France
-Jean-François et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Award, Amis des Beaux-Arts, France



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027
Upcoming...

2024
-Galerie Mitterrand, The Sea is History (After Derek Walcott), Paris, France

2017
- Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, United States
-Center for Contemporary Art 3 CHA, Rite of Spring, Châteaugiron, France

2016                
- La Maréchalerie - Center for Contemporary Art, fecund lacuna: art, archaeology, genetics, Versailles, France
-Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. - Zentrum für Medienkunst, Videorama, Germany



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
-National Maritime Museum (Musée national de la Marine), Depths, Paris, France

-Museum of Ethnography, Bringing the Objects to Life: Challenging the Museum’s Colonial History, Stockholm, Sweden

2025
-Bromska palatset, Résidence de France, Palais Broms, Kulturnatt, Stockholm, Sweden

2024
-Liljevalchs Konsthall, The Stockholm Cosmology, Stockholm, Sweden

-Galerie Mitterrand, Art Paris Art Fair, Fragile Utopias, Paris, France 

2022                
-The Polygon Gallery, Ghosts of the Machine, Vancouver, Canada

2020
-Manifesta 13, Les Parallèles du Sud, Marseille, France

-Centre Pompidou, Chine-Afrique, Crossing the World Color Line, Paris, France

2019                
Vancouver Biennale, Re-imagining Public Space, Vancouver, Canada

2018
-Sundance Film Festival, Short Film Program, Park City, United States

-6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Abracadabra!, Moscow, Russia

-Melbourne International Film Festival, WTF Shorts, Victoria, Australia

-Museo de Arte Moderna, OLHO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil              

2017
-Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, ATM tempo I/II/III, Tokyo, Japan

2016
-Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier program, Park City, United States

-Arc en rêve centre d’architecture, Constellation•s: New Ways of Living in the World, Bordeaux, France

-5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Deep Inside, Moscow, Russia

2015                
-Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts, Berlin, Germany

-Centre National Edition Art Image - CNEAI, Trans(¿)duction, Chatou, France

2014
-Jeu de Paume (National Gallery for Contemporary Art), The Yvonne Rainer Project: From Choreography to Cinema, Paris, France

2010                
-Pernod Ricard Foundation, Line of chance, Paris, France