Artist's Biography

Margaret Kennard Johnson

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected Listing)

2008 OF WIRE, MESH, PAPER AND FOIL, Gruss Center of Visual Arts, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

2006 INK, PAPER, RUSTED WIRE, AND MESH, Princeton University Women and Gender Study Program., NJ.

2005 PRINTS and HANDMADE PAPER WORKS, The Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ.

2004 MARGARET KENNARD JOHNSON: FROM STONE to MESH – SIXTY YEARS, Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ.

2002 HANDMADE PAPER WORKS, The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan.

1996 Retrospective Show at Artworks, The School of Visual Arts of Princeton and Trenton, NJ.

1995 INTAGLIO and RELIEF PRINTS, The Tolman Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1994 Drinker, Biddle and Reath, Princeton, NJ.

1993 International Print Society, New Hope, PA.

          The Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, NY.

1991 The Verne Collection, University Heights, OH.

          The Miyabi Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan.

1988 The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

1986 The U.S.A. Information Service Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1985 Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway.

1983 International Print Society, New Hope, PA.

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (Selected Listing)

2007 CERAMIC SCULPTURE BY Peter Callas and PRINTS and HANDMADE PAPER WORKS by Margaret Kennard Johnson, Trenton City Museum, NJ.

2004 BEYOND THE IMAGE-II : Barry Snyder and Margaret K. Johnson. Atelier Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

2001 Handmade Paper Works, The So Hyun Gallery, New York, NY.

          INCLUSIONS Mercer County Community College Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ.

1998 The Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ.

          The Legacy Gallery, Newtown, PA.

          Stark and Stark, Lawrenceville, NJ.

1993 The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH.

          Ann Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ.

1991 The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ.

1989 CWAJ ASSOCIATE SHOW, American Club, Tokyo, Japan.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected Listing)

2008     THE SHAPE OF IMAGINATION: Women of Black Mountain College, Ashville, North Carolina.

              IN SUSPENSION, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswich, N.J.

              NIBBLING AT THE CUBE, Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ.   

            

2007           FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CWAJ Print SHOW from Japan at The Library of Congress, Washington D.C..

DANGEROUS WOMEN, Mercer County Community College Gallery, NJ.

FIFTY-SECOND CWAJ National Print show, Tokyo, Japan.

2006           MARSH MEDITATIONS, The Princeton Artists Alliance, at Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ.

                   NATIONAL PRINTS 2006, College of New Jersey -- Purchase Award

                   FIFTIETH ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED PRINT EXHIBITION , Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ. (Purchase Award.)

2005          VISION and VOICE: The Princeton Artists Alliance and New Jersey Poets, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

2004         VISIONS of JAPAN, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

                   Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ.

                   EAST MEETS WEST - 3 artists. The Williams Gallery/Hills Gallery, Princeton, NJ. .

                   DIVERSE DIRECTIONS in PRINTMAKING, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers, University, NJ.       

2003,06     NATIONAL PRINTMAKING 2003, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.

                   100 NEW JERSEY ARTISTS MAKE PRINTS, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

                    PAPER WORK: A CELEBRATION OF FIBER, SURFACE, AND STRUCTURE, Gallery 31 North,Glen Gardner, NJ.

1999-2007 NATIONAL PRINT SHOW. Sponsored annually by The College Women’s Association of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

2002           HOMER’S ODYSSEY, (Princeton Artists Alliance Group), Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.

                    LAYERS OF TIME AND SPACE, (3 Artists), Atelier Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.

2001           A FAR EASTERN PERSPECTIVE, (3 artists The Williams Gallery, Princeton. NJ.

                     BOXED IN, Print Show, (15 Artists) Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

                     TAWA Juried Show, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

2000            REGENERATION, Princeton Artists Alliance Group, Considine Gallery, Stuart School, Princeton, NJ.

                     STILL WORKING: NEW JERSEY ARTISTS OVER 65, Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ.

                     EAST MEETS WEST, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH.

                     HANDMADE PAPER WORKS, (Four Artists), Summit Bank Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey.

1999            NEW JERSEY FINE ARTS EXHIBITION:, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

                     Homer’s ODYSSEY (Princeton Artists Alliance Group) Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ.

                     NATIONAL PRINTMAKING 1999 College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.

                     PAPER WORK: PULP AS MEDIUM (6artists), The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.

1998            TRANSCENDING THE SURFACE (Four Artists), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.

                     NATIONAL PRINTMAKING, 1998, Pittsburgh Print Group, Pittsburgh, PA.

                     Papermaking Show curated by Dieu Donne’ Paper Mill, New York, NY.

1997            The Jun Collection, Amstelveen, The Netherlands;

                      FIVE ARTISTS - in conjunction with the publication of the book, "QUIET ELEGANCE: JAPAN THROUGH

                     THE EYES OF NINE AMERICAN ARTISTS". The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH.

1996            PRINCETON ARTISTS ALLIANCE Group, The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY.

1995            The Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ; at Merrill Lynch Gallery, Plainsboro, NJ.

‘’95,’93, 06  NATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ.

’1993-’07     PRINTFAIR and WORKS ON PAPER Annuals, The Park Ave. Armory, NY, NY, (Represented by The Verne Collection,    

                 1993 Princeton Artists Alliance Group, Scanticon Conference Center, Princeton, NJ.

1992             INTERNATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION, , Silver Mine, CT.

 MASTER PRINTS of Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ..

"ALL IN LINE" (3 families of artists: George Grosz, Karen Grosz; Rube Goldberg, Thomas George; Margaret Johnson,  Lonni Sue Johnson) at The Milberg Gallery, Princeton University, NJ.

1988           JAPAN PRINT ASSOCIATION SHOW, Metropolitan Museum , Tokyo, Japan (Also ‘‘76-79,’ 83-87).

1986,7        CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PRINTS FROM JAPAN, British Museum, London, England.

1986           PRINTS FROM JAPAN, Pratt Graphics Gallery, New York, NY.

1980           "PRINTS-‘80". Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan.

1973            AMERICAN AND BRAZILIAN PRINTS, Sao Paulo Museum, Brazil.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

British Museum, London, England

Library of Congress, Washington D. C..

Minnesota Art Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota

The Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH.

The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

The Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Newark Library, Newark, NJ .

Firestone Library Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Zimmerli Museum Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ.

Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ.

Corporate and Private Collections in USA, Europe, Japan.

GALLERIES WHERE WORK IS REPRESENTED

Williams Gallery -The Art and Frame Shop, Davie, FL.( Formerly in Princeton, NJ..)

The Verne Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan.

Galerie Recolte, Fukuoka, Japan.

VIDEOS:

2007 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD(ER) WOMAN: Three Octogenarian women artists, by Tova Beck-Friedman, NY, NY..

2006 MK Johnson Studio Interview with Anne Reeves for Channel 30, Princeton, NJ..

2004 BEYOND THE IMAGE-II: Barry Snyder and Margaret K. Johnson. SMP Video - Seth Mellman Productions.

2004 Princeton Public Library : Studio Interviews with Artists of the New Library’s Art Installations.

1988 CROSSING CULTURES – The American/Japanese Experience -- (Six Artists including M.K. Johnson.)

          Published by the Media Center, Trenton State College, NJ.

FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE PRINCETON ARTISTS ALLIANCE, Princeton, NJ..

PUBLISHED WRITINGS ABOUT M.K. JOHNSON’S ART.

2005       MARGARET KENNARD JOHNSON – LOOKING WITHIN, by Allison Tolman, Daruma—Japanese Art and Antiques  Magazine, Spring Issue #46.

1999       MEDIUM, THEN MESSAGE, in ART MATTERS (Spring/Summer 1999, Philadelphia) by Patricia Summers.

1997       "QUIET ELEGANCE: JAPAN THROUGH THE Eyes of NINE  AMERICAN ARTISTS" P. 41-51, by Betsy Franco and Michael Verne, ( Publisher, Charles Tuttle, Boston and Tokyo 1997).

MARGARET K. JOHNSON – DELICATE and HILLY SURFACES, Hangwa Gejutsu (Quarterly on International Prints, Autumn, 1983, Tokyo), by Takahiko Okada.

PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY M.K. JOHNSON.

JAPANESE PRINTS TODAY: TRADITION WITH INNOVATION, by Margaret K. Johnson and Dale K. Hilton, published by Shufunotomo C. Ltd., Tokyo; 1980. Distributed by Charles Tuttle, Boston and Tokyo.

Articles for PRINTNEWS, JOURNAL OF THE PRINT WORLD, and in Japan, HANGWA GEIJUTSU (International Quarterly on Prints). 1980-2007.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION (Selected Listing)

2007    Marquis WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA, 2007 Edition

2006    Purchase Award, 50thANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED PRINT EXHIBITION, Hunterdon Museum of Art,Art, Clinton,NJ.

2006    Purchase Award, THE NATIONAL PRINT SHOW, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.

2005    Invited Lecture: JAPANESE PRINTS: INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE PAST FIFTY YEARS, at the Seattle    Asian Museum. Sponsored by the   Blakemore Foundation, Seattle, WA.

2000    Artist/Teacher of the Year, Awarded by Artworks, The School of Visual arts, Princeton/Trenton.

1995     Invited Lecture and Demonstration of Techniques at The Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Print Dept. Tokyo, Japan.

1993     Solo Juror for National Print Show1994, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ.

1988     Invited Solo Show, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.

1984     Awarded Junior Membership, Japan Print Assn. Tokyo, Japan (Few non-Japanese recipients).

EDUCATION

1943     Master of Design, School of Architecture and Design, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

1941     Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

1944     Studied with Josef Albers and Jose de Creeft at Black Mountain College, Black Mt., NC.

1990-‘07 Recent workshops at Manhattan Graphics, New York, NY.; Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking; Papermaking at Dieu   Donne’ PaperMill, NYC. Collagraphs with Lisa Mackie

 

TEACHING (earlier)

‘46-’71    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

‘46-’49    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

‘45-’46    Texas State College for Women, Denton, TX.

‘43-’45    Drake University, Des Moines, IA.

More Recent Intermittent Teaching

‘80-‘05    Princeton Art Assoc. (Artworks); Princeton Adult School; Tokyo American Club, Japan.

                Montgomery Center for the Arts, Skillman, NJ.

WEBSITES

wmgallery.com           vernegallery.com             tolmantokyo.com                blackmountainproject.org                   g-recolte.com

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PRINCETON ARTISTS ALLIANCE –from 1989, Founding Member.

Residence in Princeton, NJ since 1948 except 1954-55 in Zurich, Switzerland, and 1975-83 in Tokyo, Japan. Travel on all seven continents.

Margaret Kennard Johnson
231 Snowden Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-924-5539


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