 | | BIOGRAPHY
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| | Born: 1964 in Rock Hill, South Carolina
| | Childhood: New York, Virginia
| | Moved to Palo Alto in 1990
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| | EDUCATION
| | Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA; B.S. 1986
| | -studied with Ray Berry
| | Washington Studio School, Washington, D.C., 1987-88
| | -studied with Jo Weiss, David Holt and Jack Boul
| | Parsons School of Design, New York City; M.F.A. 1990
| | -studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, John Heliker, Larry Rivers,
| | Nell Blaine and Robert DeNiro, Sr.
| | Studio Assistant to Sam Francis, Palo Alto, CA, 1990-91
| | Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts with Wolf Kahn, Santa Fe, NM, 1992
| | New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson, 2000
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| | SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| | 2008 Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
| | 2007 One California Street, San Francisco, CA
| | Los Altos Hills Town Hall, Los Altos Hills, CA
| | Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
| | Café Borrone, Menlo Park, CA
| | Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
| | Bloomingdale's, Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA
| | 2006 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
| | 199 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA
| | Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
| | 2005 Cline Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
| | I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA (catalogue)
| | Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA
| | Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
| | 2004 North Berkeley Frame & Gallery, Berkeley, CA
| | Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | Museo della Mezzadria, Buonconvento, Italy (catalogue)
| | 2003 Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
| | 2002 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
| | 2001 Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
| | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Siena, Italy (catalogue)
| | Oakland Museum of California at Latham Square, Oakland, CA L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | 2000 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA (catalogue)
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1999 Galleria D'Arte Contemporanea, San Donato Milanese, Italy (catalogue)
| | Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
| | Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1998 Tatistcheff and Company, New York, NY (catalogue)
| | Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
| | I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1997 Tatistcheff/Rogers, Santa Monica, CA
| | Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA
| | L'amie Donia Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1996 Spazio Culturale Avicenna, Milano, Italy
| | Osteria del Leone, Bagno Vignoni, Italy
| | Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford, CA
| | 1995 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
| | 1994 Mitchell-Brown Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
| | Hewlett Packard Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1993 Stanford Faculty Club Gallery, Stanford, CA
| | Main Library, Palo Alto, CA
| | 1992 Young Gallery, Los Gatos, CA
| | 1991 Place de la Mairie, Meyreuil, France
| | 1990 Synchronicity Space, New York, NY
| | Place de la Mairie, Meyreuil, France
| | 1989 Place de la Mairie, Meyreuil, France
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| | SELECTED GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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| | 2008 Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
| | 2007 Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
| | 2006 'Tis of Thee, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
| | 2005 San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco,CA
| | U. S. Artists, Philadelphia, PA
| | Terrence Rogers Memorial, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Boston International Fine Arts Show, Boston,
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| | MA Group Show, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Emerging Artists 2005, Scottsdale, AZ
| | Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
| | Summer Group Show, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
| | 2004 Windows, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
| | Summer Invitational, Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA
| | U.S. Artists, Philadelphia, PA
| | Summer Group Show, Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
| | Inaugural Group Show, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Unbounded Vistas: Artists Interpret the N.
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| | California landscape,
| | Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA
| | Summer Group Show, Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
| | 2002 Treasure, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
| | 2000 Galleria Toselli, Milano, Italy
| | "New Acquisitions", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
| | CA di FRA, Milano, Italy
| | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Siena, Italy
| | 1998 Tatistcheff and Company, New York, NY
| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Museum sales Gallery, Buffalo,NY
| | Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
| | John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
| | Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
| | 1997 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
| | Tatistcheff and Company, New York
| | 1996 Tatistcheff/Rogers, Santa Monica, CA
| | Crocker-Kingsley Biennial, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
| | Thomas Babeor and Company, La Jolla, CA
| | Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
| | 1995 Leapingotis Fine Art, Vail, CO
| | 1994 Tatistcheff/Rogers, Santa Monica, CA
| | Washington Studio School Gallery, Washington, D.C.
| | 1993 9th Biennial Drawing/Print Show, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
| | Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
| | Mitchell, Brown, Duncan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
| | Stanford University School of Law, Stanford, CA
| | Gallery 30, Burlingame, CA
| | Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
| | 1992 Stanford University Faculty Club Gallery, Stanford, CA
| | Gallery Provisoire (with Adam Schnitzer), Palo Alto, CA
| | Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
| | Warner-Roberts Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
| | Kathleen Spiegelman Interiors, Los Angeles, CA
| | 1991 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
| | Randolph-Macon College (with Duane Keiser), Ashland, VA
| | Washington Studio School Gallery, Washington, D.C.
| | 1990 Reynolds-Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
| | Duke University (with Una Kim), Durham, NC
| | Gallery at the Vineyards, New Hope, PA
| | Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
| | 1989 Washington Studio School Gallery, Washington, DC
| | The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
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| | MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
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| | Oakland Museum of Art Foundation, Oakland, CA
| | Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
| | Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
| | Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
| | South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
| | Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
| | Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
| | Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA
| | York County Museum, Rock Hill, SC
| | Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
| | Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
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| | AWARDS
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| | 2007 Josef Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CT
| | 1992,3,5 Peninsula Community Foundation Grant
| | 1988-90 Parsons School of Design Scholarship
| | 1992 Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts Grant
| | 1989 Leslie T. and Frances U. Posey Foundation Grant
| | 1988 Washington Studio School Scholarship
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| | LECTURES
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| | 2005 "Figurative Abstraction and Poetic Light: Painter's Lessons
| | from Corot to Morandi", Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
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| | BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| | 2007
| | The painting "Untitled, Palo Alto, n.3," 1991 appears in the TV show, Ugly Betty. Norton, Janet Duca, Palo Alto Daily News,
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| | (September 23, 2007), p.7. Batti, Renee, "MJ Paints windows at Bloomingdale's," The Almanac, (September 12, 2007), p.20. Wallace,
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| | Rebecca, "The Roads both taken," Palo Alto Weekly, (May 18, 2007), cover & p. 10-12. Wallace, Rebecca, "The Roads both taken,"
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| | Mountain View Voice, (May 25, 2007), cover & p. 29-31. Cape Arts Review, "Art News from Chatham, Orleans and Brewster," (2007),
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| | p.62. MacLaughlin, Karen, "Color and shape: paintings by Mitchell Johnson," The Almanac, (May 9, 2007), p. 32. Pasquali,
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| | Marilena. "Mitchell Johnson: Doppio Binario" (Musei Senese, Siena, Italy), Monograph, May, 2007. Schauer, Lindsay. "Local
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| | Gentry," Gentry Magazine (May, 2007), p. 70.
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| | 2006
| | Fressola, Michael, "Ex-Islander paints under the Tuscan Sun," Staten Island Advance, (September 10, 2006), p.E2. "Truro n. 6,"
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| | 2005 appears in the Columbia Pictures film, The Holiday.
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| | 2005
| | Campion, Peter, Exhibition Interview, I. Wolk Gallery, (September, 2005). "Bornholm (lifesaver)," 2004 appears in December issue
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| | of Sunset Magazine.
| | Reflections: Staten Island Academy, "Mitchell Johnson," (Spring, 2005), p.35.
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| | 2004
| | Campion, Peter. "Mitchell Johnson" (Santa Monica: Terrence Rogers Fine Art), Monograph, May, 2005. Rogers, Terrence.
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| | Introduction to "Mitchell Johnson" (Santa Monica: Terrence Rogers Fine Art), Monograph, May, 2005. Emerling, Susan, "Mitchell
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| | Johnson at Terrence Rogers Fine Art,"
| | ArtNews, p. 88., June, 2004
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| | 2003
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| | Hillhouse, Susan "Mitchell Johnson: Work and Play," (Triton Museum of Art) exhibition essay.
| | Crow, Fred, "Triton shows works by California artists'," Milpitas Post, (January 9, 2003), p.24.
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| | Fischer, Jack, "Two California Artists create new interest in old styles," San Jose Mercury News (March 4, 2003), p.1E. Weimers,
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| | Leigh, "Mars, IKEA provide week' cosmic events," San Jose Mercury News (August 28, 2003), p.2B.
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| | Gangelhoff, Bonnie, "An Artist for All Seasons," Southwest Art Magazine (February, 2003), pp. 7-14, cover.
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| | 2002
| | Batti, Renee, "Menlo Artists Work Goes Beyond the Landscape," The Almanac (May 15, 2002), p. 10-11.
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| | Batti, Renee, "California and Tuscany Dreaming", Palo Alto Weekly (May 17, 2002) p. 28—29.
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| | 2001
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| | Letter to the Editor, New York Times (August 19, 2001), p. 6. La Nazione, "Grande Success per La Sagra," Siena, September 25,
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| | 2001.
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| | Di Piero, W.S. "On Mitchell Johnson," (Santa Monica: Terrence Rogers Fine Art), exhibition catalogue.
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| | Fontana, Sara. "Mitchell Johnson," (Santa Monica: Terrence Rogers Fine Art), exhibition catalogue.
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| | 2000
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| | Bijan, Donia. "Mitchell Johnson," (St. Helena: I. Wolk Gallery), exhibition catalogue.
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| | Carboni, Tiffany. "Local Gentry," Gentry Magazine (February, 2000), p. 42-44. Ito, Itaru. "Outerline Milano," In Natural
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| | International (January, 2000), p. 130-131.
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| | 1999
| | Corgnati, Martina. "Mitchell Johnson," (San Donato Milanese, Italy), exhibition catalogue. Di Piero, W.S. "On Mitchell Johnson,"
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| | (San Donato Milanese, Italy), exhibition catalogue. Pichevin, Claude. "Mitchell Johnson," (San Donato Milanese, Italy),
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| | exhibition catalogue. "Atmosfera stelle e strisce su tela," Il Giorno (October 27, 1999), p.39. Tadini, Emilio. "I paesaggi
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| | bucolici della California nelle tele di Mitchell Johnson," Il Cittadino (October 12, 1999), p. 44.
| | Knoll, Conan. "Capturing Rural Beauty," The Gilroy Dispatch (March 3, 1999), cover, p. A6 Henry, Gerrit. "Mitchell Johnson:
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| | Beginnings," (Portland: Augen Gallery) Exhibit essay.
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| | 1998
| | Harrington, Jim. "The Master of Momentum," Palo Alto Weekly (August 14, 1998), p.10-11. Bijan, Donia. "Mitchell Johnson," (New
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| | York: Tatistcheff Gallery), exhibition catalogue. Luciani, Annette. "Mitchell Johnson," (New York: Tatistcheff Gallery),
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| | exhibition catalogue.
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| | 1997
| | Byers, Susanna. "Seeing paintings instead of locations," American Artist (July, 1997), pp. 44-51. Buckley, Patricia Morris. "Two
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| | Distinct artists share common thread," North County Times (July18, 1997), p. 17.
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| | 1996
| | Sussman, Diane. "Chasing Light," Palo Alto Weekly (February 23, 1996), p. 9. Farmer, Rob. "Gallery Going," Where San Francisco
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| | (Spring, 1996), p. 11.
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| | 1995
| | Ito, Itaru. "I paesaggi di Mitchell Johnson," (Milan: Spazio Avicenna), exhibition essay.
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| | 1992
| | Ayres, Jane. "Painters revive former gallery," Peninsula Times Tribune (February 3, 1992), p. 18. Sussman, Diane. "Mitchell
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| | Johnson: that inimitable French style," Palo
| | Alto Weekly (February 5, 1992), p. 38.
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