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Chris Johnson studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock and has been the recipient of AICA Mellon Foundation Grant for Photography and Polaroid Foundation Artist Grants.
As co-producer of performance works with Suzanne Lacy, grants from The Rockefeller Foundation Walter and Elise Haas; LEF Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Tamarack Foundation, McKesson Foundation; work in the collection of Smithsonian Institution, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, Center For Creative Photography.
Chris Johnson is the author of The Practical Zone System: for Film and Digital Photography; currently in its 4th edition published by Focal Press in the West and Zhejiang Photographic Press in China..
From 1999 – 2005 he served as Chair of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission and from 1997 to 2000 he was Director of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography.
As a member, Public Art Management Team, Port of Oakland, Chris Johnson is the originator of and Project Manager for the Media Wall currently installed in the Oakland International Airport. Chris Johnson is currently a Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts where for ten years he served as President of the Faculty Senate.
He has also been Chair of the Board of the Oakland Art Gallery.
As an active member of the art community in the San Francisco Bay Area, he served as President of San Francisco Camerawork Gallery from 1982 to 1987, and was a founding member and Vice-Chair of the City of Oakland Public Art Advisory Committee. In 1990 he helped establish the House of Photography in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Born: Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 1948
Education: Studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham,Wynn Bullock
Selected Exhibitions/Performance Works/Community Projects:
2002 - "Being There- 45 Oakland Artists" Oakland Museum
2001 - "Capturing Light: Materpieces of California Photography 1850-2000" Oakland Museum
2001 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 - "Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers -1840 to the Present".
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and other venues
1996 - "Question Bridge", a video project on class divisions within the black community; part of Re:Public @ MOPA in San Diego w/ Richard Bolton, James Luna, Kaucyila Brooke, Richard Lou, Robert Sanchez & Danielle Michaels
1995- "Oakland Teens and Police Project.
1994 - "Race, Representation and Media", consultant to Southern Exposure Gallery on project in Balboa High School, San Francisco
1994 -"The Roof is on Fire", performance work, w/Suzanne Lacy, Oakland California
1994 - 20th Anniversary Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1993 - The Family Seen, S.F. Camerawork Gallery
1993 - Oakland Media Literacy Project, Seminar for Oakland High School faculty
1993 - Polaroid Exhibition, Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco
1993 - One-Person retrospective, Manchester Craftsman's Guild, Pittsburgh, Penn.
1992 - Selections 6, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1993 - "Iris Suite", Polaroid International Collection
1992 - Photokina, Cologne, Germany
1992 - "Photo-Biographers" Atlanta Gallery of Photography
1992 -"Teenage Livingroom", performance work, w/Suzanne Lacy, Oakland California
1992- "Popular Culture and Media Literacy", Experimental class @ Oakland Technical High School w/Suzanne Lacy
1990 - Group Show, "Oakland's Photographers 90", Oakland Museum
1988 - Selections 4 Polaroid International Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other European venues
Selected Published Work:
2001 "Wynn Bullock 55", Introductory text w/Barbara Bullock
Published by Phaidon Press
2000 "Emerging Bodies: Nudes from the Polaroid Collection"
Editions Stemmie, Zurick, Switzerland
1994 - "Wynn Bullock", essay in Lenswork Quarterly
1994 - The Practical Zone System, Focal Press, Second Edition
1986 - The Practical Zone System, Focal Press
1988 - "Contemporary Photographers" An anthology, St. James Press
Curatorial Projects
1997 - "Transformation", The Work of Mariette Pathy Allen,
1996 - "Lonely Woman" The Work of Julio Mitchel, Iris Gallery,
1991 - "Disputed Identities" Traveling show, SF Camerawork Gallery
1986 - "Inside/Out", The Work of Lonny Shavelson/ Mary Ellen Mark
1978 - "Ansel Adams", Neary Gallery, Santa Cruz, California
1978 - "Silver and Wood", The Work of Brett Weston, Santa Cruz, California
1977 - "Imogen Cunningham", Japan
Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson
Polaroid International Collection
Selected Awards
Polaroid Corporation - Foundation Artist Grant, 1987-87-92
Lectures, Panels and Conference Papers:
2000 - 2002 Selection Panelist: Soros Foundation Fellowship
Open Society Institute, The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture
2000 Lecture: "The Mother Jones Photo Fund and Documentary Photography"
3er Encuentro de Fotoperiodismo Méx-US, Tijuana, Mexico
1998 Lecture: "Roy Decarava: Is He a Black Photographer?"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1999 Selection Panelist: Soros Foundation Fellowship
Open Society Institute, The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture
1997 On My Work: Society for Photographic Education
Regional Conference, Oakland, CA
1996 Panelist, "Towards a Critical Analysis of Public Art"
CAA Conference, Boston MA
1995 Lecture, (w/John Bloom), "The Meaning Of Photography"
Looking at Art With Artists series
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995 Panelist, "Not Born to be a Gangsta"
Documentary film for S.A.I.D. Communications Group
1994 Speaker: "Existence- The Later Work of Wynn Bullock"
Ansel Adams Gallery Pacific Grove, California
1994 Speaker: "The History of the Future: Northern California Artists Organizations"
Panel Discussion, Southern Exposure Gallery
San Francisco, California
1994 Speaker: "The Purple Crayon: Aesthetics and Community",
Panel Discussion, Southern Exposure Gallery
San Francisco, California
1993 Speaker, "Family Views: History and Multiplicity"
Panel Discussion, SF Camerawork Gallery
San Francisco, California
1992 Panelist, "Towards A Culturally Inclusive Art Education"
San Francisco Arts Institute
1992 Speaker: Media Literacy and Popular Culture, SPE Conference
Santa Barbara, California
1991 Speaker: Mapping the Terrain, Public Art Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1991 Presenter, SPE Regional Conference
Buelleton, California
1990 Panelist, "What is Black Art?"
Hatley/Martin Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Lecture, Viewpoints: Discussions w/ California Artists
Oakland Museum
1986 Lecture w/Lonny Shavelson, Spring Lecture Series
SF Camerawork Gallery
1986 Lecturer, Viewpoints: Discussions with California Artists
Oakland Museum
Teaching Experience:
1977-present -Professor of Photography
California College of the Arts, Oakland California
Miscellaneous
1996 - Panel Speaker - "Beauty, Invention and Good Intentions: Towards a Critical Analysis of Public Art", CAA Conference, Boston - with Suzanne Lacy, William Strickland.
1995 - Co-Instructor (w/John Bloom) "The Meaning Of Photography
Looking at Art with Artists Series, SF Museum of Modern Art
1994 - Speaker: "Existence- The Later Work of Wynn Bullock"
Ansel Adams Gallery Pacific Grove, California
1994 - Speaker: "The History of the Future: Northern California Artists Organizations"
Panel Discussion, Southern Exposure Gallery
1994 - Speaker: "The Purple Crayon: Aesthetics and Community",
Panel Discussion, Southern Exposure Gallery
1992/94/96 - Reviewer: FOTOFEST, Houston Texas
1992 - Speaker: Media Literacy and Popular Culture, SPE Conference
1992 - Consultant, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, NEH Grant
1991 - Speaker: Mapping the Terrain, Public Art Symposium, SFMOMA
1985-95 - President, CCAC Faculty Senate
