MATT JOHNSON
Lives and works in Newfield, New York, USA
that_matt_johnson@outlook.com | thatmattjohnson.com | @thatmattjohnsonart
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024-2025 Materials for the Arts, Long Island City, NY, “Blood Music”
2022 Beach 91st Street Community Garden, Rockaway Beach, NY, “An Altar to Glaucus”
2021-2022 Various sites, Queens, NY, “Rockaway Memorial Project”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Arts Council of Wichita Falls, TX, ACWF Fiber Arts Invitational 2026
2026 View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY, Wearable Art
2026 d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, Fibrous: A Juried National Exhibition of Paper & Textile Artworks
2025 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, Threaded Visions: Fashion in Art
2025 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY, Free Your Mind: The Expansion
2024 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2024 Juried Exhibition
2024 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY, Parables of the Unknown
2023- Various venues, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge: A Benefit for Visual AIDS
2022 Avoid the Day, Rockaway Beach, NY, Always on Sunday (co-curator)
RESIDENCY
2025 Work In Progress Residency, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2025 Apprentice Training Program, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
PRESENTATIONS
2025 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Apprentice Training Program artist talk
2025 Surface Design Association, Textile Talks: “Friends with Fiber”
2019 Interaction Design Association, Seattle, WA: “The Metadata is the Message”
PUBLICATIONS
2024 “First Person,” Surface Design Journal (Winter)
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
2025 Meet the Artists @ PMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2025 Alter Egos and Magical Creatures (workshop, Textile Arts Center)
2023 Kook Mike Goes Surfing (film, dir. Rob Bryn): actor and costumer
2020-2022 Sea Changes Workshop Series (created by Riitta Ikonen): weekly event host
2021 Bear Mountain (music video, dir. Elisa Dorn): production assistant
2013-2018 Folsom Street East: event producer and chief executive
COLLECTIONS
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
AltaMed Health Services, Los Angeles
Private collections, New York, NY
Private collection, Bay Shore, NY
Private collection, Chestertown, MD
Private collection, Durham, NC
TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT
2019-2020 Lecturer, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2004-2006 Cataloging Assistant, Brooklyn Museum Libraries, Brooklyn, NY