ARTIST 004 SEASON 6

Loni Johnson

Loni Johnson is a multi-disciplinary visual artist born and raised in Miami, FL. As an artist, educator, mother, and activist, Loni understands that as artists, there is a cyclical obligation to give back and nurture our communities with her creative gift and it must be utilized to better our world. Through movement and ritual, she creates healing spaces for Black women and explores how ancestral and historical memory informs how, when and where one enters and claim spaces.

Selected exhibitions and performances include: As We Move Forward at Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst MA (2024), Making Miami Design District, Miami (2023), Biscayne at Kampong Gardens, Coconut Grove (2023), Asake: a conversation with self at 74th and Collins Oolite’s Walgreens storefront, Miami Beach (2023), Remnants at Locust Projects, Miami, Making Visible: The Studio Archives of Chire Regans and Loni Johnson, WAAM at Dimensions Variable, Miami (2020); Say Their Names, Chire Regans/Vanta Black Memorial Mural Project Unveiling, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami (2020); Performans Fanm/Global Borderless Caribbean XII: Focus Miami, Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center, Miami (2020); Homegoing, NADA Art Fair, Miami (2017); Offerings III, Bas Fisher Invitational and O’Miami, Miami (2017); Offerings II, Common Field Convening, Miami (2016).

Loni is the Lead Coordinator of Art Detectives, an arts education program rooted in the framework of Social Justice at Pérez Art Museum Miami, Prevention Coordinator of youth arts prevention program at Concept Health Systems, and Chairperson for the National Visual Arts Selection Panel for YoungArts, the national foundation for the advancement of artists. She is also one of the founders of Miami Melanated Arts, a collective of Black artists who are creating space to reimagine what effective and impactful Arts ecosystems in South Florida could be.