COMMUNITY: Leasho Johnson – 2016 – Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York

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Leasho Johnson – 2016 – Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York

Leasho Johnsonwas born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1984. Since graduating with a BFA in Visual Communication at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, in 2009, Johnson has participated in several local and international exhibitions.

In 2009, he was selected to participate in Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art at Real Art Ways in Connecticut, USA. The National Gallery of Jamaica subsequently selected him for the group exhibition Young Talent V in 2010. In 2011, he participated in Who More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean, a group exhibition at the Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Johnson is a founding member of the Dirty Crayons collective, which began organizing bi-annual group exhibitions in 2012. In 2014, Johnson was selected as an artist in residence at Ateliers ‘89 in Oranjestad, Aruba, also participating in the residency’s Caribbean Linked III exhibition. That same year, he was also an invited panelist in the Caribbean Queer Visualities Symposium organized by Small Axe at Yale University, Connecticut, USA. Johnson’s most recent exhibition, Jamaica Routes, was held at the Punkt Ø Gallerie in Moss, Norway, in 2015. The exhibition was curated by Selene Wendt and paid homage to the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall.

Davidoff Art Initiative artist in residence in collaboration with Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, New York. September – November 2016