About — Michelle Lee Johnson

Michelle Lee Johnson

Work
Talking to Strangers! (laying down like a snake)
Piping Plover
UL11 UL12 X IL14
Homing Pigeons
winged/wingless NIKE
Mothers of Our Pearls
on flux
one egg short of a pancake
Priority Seating
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Michelle Lee Johnson [she/they] (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA, USA) is an American visual artist living and practicing in London, UK. They are currently pursuing an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London.

I work across sculpture, moving image, sound, and installation. I am interested in ghosts, scraps, and disintegration — attending to these residues becomes my process to address material subjectivity.

Often with a humorous, kitsch, or absurb tone, my work explores the dialectic generated within unresolved contradictions experienced between polarities: belonging and alienation; care and neglect; queerness and conformity; autonomy and control; mundane and absurd; desire and disgust. My practice engages with themes of body through a queer lens and interrogates systems of precarity.

2024