Marc Johnson(XI)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Marc Johnson (Vitry-Sur-Seine, France, 1986) is a Franco-Beninese architect, visual artist and film-maker who has studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 2006 to 2011 (MFA). He studied at the Hunter College of Art, New York (2010). He continued his studies from 2011-2013 at the National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais (HMONP). In 2007, he was a guest artist of the A.R.T. Artists-in-Residence program in Tokyo.
Marc Johnson has received many grants and awards for his work as an artist, including the LVMH Young Artist Award (2009), the Clermont-Tonnerre Prize from the Association des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2009), the Colin-Lefranc grants from the French Ministry of Culture (2009) and the D-SPAR art prize from the Dhillon-Marty Foundation (2012).
In 2011 Marc Johnson was commissioned by the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris a site-specific intervention (Atlas-in-situ) in the Glass Atrium. Marc Johnson has been exhibiting worldwide including at the Fondation Ricard, Paris (2010), Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo (2007), Valerie Bach Gallery, Brussels (2011), Chandigarh Art College, Chandigard (2012), Nairang Gallery, Lahore (2012), Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing (2014), Jeu de Paume arts center, Paris (2014).
Marc Johnson has received many grants and awards for his work as an artist, including the LVMH Young Artist Award (2009), the Clermont-Tonnerre Prize from the Association des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2009), the Colin-Lefranc grants from the French Ministry of Culture (2009) and the D-SPAR art prize from the Dhillon-Marty Foundation (2012).
In 2011 Marc Johnson was commissioned by the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris a site-specific intervention (Atlas-in-situ) in the Glass Atrium. Marc Johnson has been exhibiting worldwide including at the Fondation Ricard, Paris (2010), Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo (2007), Valerie Bach Gallery, Brussels (2011), Chandigarh Art College, Chandigard (2012), Nairang Gallery, Lahore (2012), Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing (2014), Jeu de Paume arts center, Paris (2014).
