Erin Johnson
Directing · Tuscon, Arizona, USA
Erin Johnson’s short films and immersive installations interlace documentary, experimental, and narrative filmmaking devices to interrogate notions of collectivity, dissent, and queer identity. In her shape-shifting videos, site-specific performances by artists, biologists, and film extras address ongoing legacies of scientific research and nationalism. Johnson received an MFA and Certificate in New Media from UC Berkeley in 2013, attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2019 and recently completed residencies at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL), Lower Manhattan Community Council (LMCC), Hidrante (San Juan, PR), and Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY). She is Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has recently been exhibited or screened at MOCA Toronto (Toronto), Munchmuseet (Oslo), Times Square Arts (New York), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Boston), Billytown (The Hague), and Telfair Museums (Savannah).
Directed
Oranges
2023
To Be Sound is to Be Solid
2023
Tomatoes
2020
There are things in this world that are yet to be named
2020
Lake
2019
Heavy Water
2018
Salidas y Entradas | Exits and Entrances
2018
The Way Things Can Happen
2018
If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat
2014
Come In
2011
Cayo Santiago
Movie
To Sea
Movie