SOLO SHOWS (Selected Listing)
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, Artworks, 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, Ohio;
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 SHOWS (Selected Listing)
2004 BEYOND THE IMAGE - II, With Barry Snyder, Atelier Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.
2001 INCLUSIONS, with Pat Martin Mercer County Community College Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ.
1998 The Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ, with Michael Ramus.
The Legacy Gallery, Newtown, PA, with Barbara Osterman.
1993 The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
Ann Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ., BEYOND THE IMAGE, with Barry Snyder
1991 The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ., with Michael Ramus.
1989 American Club, CWAJ ASSOCIATE SHOW , Tokyo, Japan, with Noriko Kiyotsuka.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS, (Selected Listing) (Juried, Invited)
2006 NATIONAL PRINTS, 2006, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2003 NATIONAL PRINTMAKING 2003, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
1999-05 NATIONAL CWAJ PRINT SHOW. Tokyo, Japan
1999 NATIONAL PRINTMAKING 1999, College of New Jersey, Ewing.
1998 NATIONAL PRINTMAKING, 1998, Pittsburgh Print Group, Pittsburgh, PA., Pittsburgh, PA.
1993,95 NATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ.
1992 INTERNATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION, Silvermine Art Guild, Silvermine, Ct.
1988 JAPAN PRINT ASSOCIATION ANNUAL, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1986,87 PRINTS FROM JAPAN, The British Museum, London, England.
1986 PRINTS FROM JAPAN, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY.
1980 PRINTS-’80,Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan.
MUSEUM GROUP SHOWS (Selected Listings)
2005 The New Jersey State Museum VISION AND VOICE: The Princeton Artists Alliance and New Jersey and New Jersey Poets.
2004 The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Ohio, VISIONS OF JAPAN,
2003 New Jersey State Museum, 100 NEW JERSEY ARTISTS MAKE PRINTS, Trenton, NJ.
2002 Newark Museum, HOMER’S ODYSSEY, (Princeton Artists Alliance Group), Newark, NJ.
2001 Zimmerli Museum, BOXED IN, Print Show, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. (15 Artists).
New Jersey State Museum, TAWA Juried Show, Trenton, NJ.
2000 Cleveland Art Museum, EAST MEETS WEST, Cleveland, Ohio.
1999 New Jersey State Museum, NEW JERSEY FINE ARTS EXHIBITION, Trenton, NJ..,
1997 The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, ACROSS CULTURES: Five Contemporary Western Artists from Japan,
1988, 83-87, 76-79 Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan. JAPAN PRINT ASSOCIATION SHOW.
1986-87 British Museum, London, England. PRINTS FROM JAPAN.
1980 Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan.PRINTS-’80.
1973 Sao Paolo Museum, Sao Paolo, Brazil, AMERICAN AND BRAZILIAN PRINTS.
GALLERY SHOWS (Selected Listing)
2006 Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, MARSH MEDITATIONS, Princeton Artists Alliance, Princeton, NJ.
2004 The Williams Gallery/Hill Gallery, EAST MEETS WEST (Three Artists) Princeton, NJ.
Atelier Gallery, LAYERS OF TIME AND SPACE, (3 Artists), Frenchtown, NJ.
2003 Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ., PAPERWORK: A CELEBRATION OF FIBER, SURFACE, AND STRUCTURE.
2001 The Williams Gallery, A FAR EASTERN PERSPECTIVE, (3 artists), Princeton. NJ.
2000 Considine Gallery, Stuart School, REGENERATION, (Princeton Artists Alliance Group) Princeton, NJ.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, STILL WORKING: NEW JERSEY ARTISTS OVER 65, Princeton, NJ.
Summit Bank Gallery, HANDMADE PAPER WORKS, (Four Artists), Princeton, New Jersey.
1999 Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Homer’s ODYSSEY. (Princeton Artists Alliance Group) Princeton, NJ.
The Williams Gallery, VESSELS IN TIME, Princeton, NJ.
The College of New Jersey, PAPER WORK: PULP AS MEDIUM (6artists), , Ewing, NJ.
1998 Bristol-Myers Squibb, TRANSCENDING THE SURFACE, (Four Artists), Princeton, NJ,
Dieu Donne’ Paper Mill-curated PAPERMAKING SHOW, New York, NY.
1997 The Jun Collection, Amstelveen, The Netherlands;
1996 The Lobby Gallery, Princeton Artists Alliance Group, New York, NY.
1995 The Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ; at Merrill Lynch Gallery, Plainsboro, NJ.
’1993-‘04 The Park Ave. Armory, NYC PRINTFAIR and WORKS ON PAPER Annuals, (Represented by
The Verne Collection, Cleveland, Oh.) at New York, NY.
1993 Scanticon Conference Center, (Princeton Artists Alliance Group), Princeton, NJ.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, MASTER PRINTS of Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
1991 "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.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS GALLERIES WHERE WORK IS REPRESENTED
British Museum, London, England Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
Minnesota Art Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota The Verne Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
The Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio. The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan.
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Gallery Miyabi, Fukuoka, Japan.
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. (Commissioned Installation).
Rockefeller University, NY,NY.
USA Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.
Corporate and Private Collections in USA, Europe, Japan.
VIDEOS:
2005 JAPANESE PRINTS: Innovative Ideas and Techniques of the Past Fifty Years – Lecture by M.K.
Johnson at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Produced by the Museum.
2004 BEYOND THE IMAGE-II: Barry Snyder and Margaret K. Johnson. SMP Video - Seth Mellman Productions.
1989 CROSSING CULTURES – The American/Japanese Experience, Six Artists. Published by the Media Center, Trenton State College, 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 by Patricia Summers - Art Matters (Spring/Summer Issue, Philadelphia)
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.
1983 MARGARET K. JOHNSON - Delicate and Hilly Surfaces, by Takahiko Okada, in Hangwa Gejutsu, Quarterly on International Prints) Autumn Issue, Tokyo),
PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY M.K. JOHNSON.
1980 JAPANESE PRINTS TODAY: TRADITION WITH INNOVATION, by Margaret K. Johnson and Dale K.
Hilton, published by Shufunotomo Co. Ltd., Tokyo; Distributor Charles Tuttle, Boston and Tokyo. 1980-2005 Articles for PRINTNEWS, JOURNAL OF THE PRINT WORLD, and in Japan, HANGWA GEIJUTSU International Quarterly on Prints).
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION (Selected Listing)
2006 Purchase Prize, National Print Show , College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
2005 Invited Lecture at The Seattle Asian Art Museum: JAPANESE PRINTS: Innovative Ideas and Techniques of the Past 50 Years.
2000 Artist/Teacher of the Year, Awarded by Artworks, The School of Visual arts, Princeton/Trenton.
1995 Invited Lecture and Demonstration of Techniques at National University of Fine Arts, Print Dept. Tokyo, Japan.
1993 Solo Juror for National Print Show 1994, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ.
1988 Invited Solo Show, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
1984 Awarded Junior Membership, Japan Print Association, Tokyo, Japan. (Few Foreign Members).
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-‘05 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.
1995 Lecture and demonstration, Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
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
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