Chris Johanson
Born 1968, San Jose; Lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon.
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Living In a World of Holes With the Hole Makers’, Jack Hanley Gallery, East Hampton (with Johanna Jackson) |
| 2022 | ‘The Chimes We Find’, Gallery 12.26, Dallas (with Johanna Jackson) |
| Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2021 | ‘Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York |
| ‘Subject Matter, Unblivion, Peace Train of Thought | How I Figured Out How To Have A Show In 2021’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| 2020 | ‘Tennis Elbow Window Week 22’, Journal Gallery, New York |
| 2019 | ‘Paintings’, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| 2018 | ‘Particulate Paper Poems’, Albert Baronian, Brussels |
| ‘Ruminations, Meditations and The Homeostasis’, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2017 | ‘Worms, Birds, People, and Air: The Art of Oh No and Dissociative Thinking’, Soccer Club Club, Chicago |
| ‘The Middle Riddle’, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn (with Johanna Jackson) | |
| ‘Possibilities’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | |
| ‘Infused Paper’, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen | |
| 2016 | ‘Imperfect Reality with Figures and Challenging Abstraction’, The Conversation, Berlin |
| 2015 | ‘The House of Escaping Forms’, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA |
| ‘Equations’, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2014 | ‘Continuity Escapes Me (My Selfishness in Los Angeles)’, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| ‘Self(ish) Expression(ism)’, Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA), Portland | |
| 2013 | ‘Considering’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘Within The River of Time Is My Mind’, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles | |
| ‘(Almost) Free-Formed: Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, and Laurie Reid in Collaboration’, City College Art Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2012 | ‘Windows’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York |
| ‘Two Days Art’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (festival) | |
| ‘A Perfect Day-Tekenshow’, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam | |
| 2011 | ‘Alright, Alright’, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
| ‘This, This, This, That’, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2010 | ‘Backwards Toward Forwards’, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago |
| ‘The sound of energy in space, the space of energy on life’, Schunck Glaspaleis, Herleen, Netherlands | |
| ‘1991—2010. I was there’, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Not a waste of ...’, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2009 | ‘Chris Johanson- Jean Debuffet’, Baronian Francey, Brussels |
| ‘Continuality’, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson college, Davidson | |
| ‘Continuality’, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson college, Davidson | |
| 2008 | ‘Conclusions on Boundaries’, Art of this Gallery, Minneapolis (collaboration with Johanna Jackson) |
| Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Totalities’, Dietch Projects, New York | |
| 2007 | ‘Paradise Library’, Le Meridien Hotel, San Francisco (with Jo Jackson) |
| ‘Art Unlimited’, Art|38|Basel, Basel (with The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd and Galleri Nicolai Wallner) | |
| ‘Peaceable Kingdom’, Marella Gallery, Milan (with Jo Jackson) | |
| ‘APEX: CHRIS JOHANSON’, Portland Art Museum, Portland | |
| 2006 | ‘I am in this weird area now’, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
| ‘Contemporary Landscapes’, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago | |
| ‘I Can Feel It (Co-Exist In Modern Death): Alright Yeah!’, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2004 | ‘Problem Does Not Compute’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico | |
| ‘Solo Show, Solo Soul’, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago | |
| 2003 | ‘The More You Think About It, The More You Think About It and Keep Thinking About It More’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco |
| ‘This is Where You Are’, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna | |
| ‘SECA Award Show’, MOMA, San Francisco | |
| SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| 2002 | ‘Now is Now’, Deitch Projects, New York |
| ‘Many Ways’, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2001 | Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago |
| Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum | |
| ‘Relationistism about Brownness’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver | |
| Vedanta Gallery, Chicago | |
| 2000 | ‘The Ourselves Festival’, Alleged Fine Arts, New York |
| ‘Le Nuage Brun (The Brown Cloud)’, Purple Institute, Paris | |
| 1998 | ‘SWP’, Alleged Fine Arts, New York |
| ‘All on Different Trips’, Four Walls, San Francisco | |
| 1997 | ‘Ourlandia’, Scene/Escena, San Francisco |
| 1995 | ‘Sorry’, Figure 5, San Francisco |
| ‘The Universe’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 1994 | ‘Fantasy Island (Life Span)’, Kiki, San Francisco |
| 1990 | ‘Pictures and Words’, Emmanuel Ratnitsky Found Objects, San Francisco |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Piano sale going on somewhere’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles |
| ‘physical spiritual gesture’, G Gallery, Seoul | |
| 2022 | ‘VI XX — Twenty years of V1 Gallery’, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen |
| ‘For the Birds’, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York | |
| ‘Mima Reload’, MIMA, Brussels | |
| 2021 | ‘The Greek Garden’, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris |
| ‘SeeSAw’, These Days, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Lost Weekend’, Yvon Lambert and Galerie Allen, Paris | |
| 2020 | ‘A Perfect Day Tekenshow’, A Perfect Day, Amsterdam |
| 2019 | ‘Small Worlds - Group Exhibitions of Miniature Works’, Augen Gallery, Portland |
| 2017 | ‘Converge 45’, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland |
| ‘The Human Form’, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California’, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles | |
| 2016 | ‘A Question/Some Mild Anxiety/The Results’, Demo Gallery, Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX |
| ‘Will And Be Going To’, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Outside’, KARMA, New York | |
| ‘The Secret Staircase’, Adams and Ollman, Portland | |
| ‘AftermodernisM’, Nicole Ripka Gallery, NY | |
| ‘Future Developments’, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis | |
| ‘Architecture of Life’, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley | |
| 2014 | ‘Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California’, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland |
| ‘Score’, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College | |
| ‘Energy That is All Around’, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York | |
| 2013 | ‘Project Los Altos’, SFMOMA (offsite), Downtown Los Altos |
| ‘My Crippled Friend’, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus | |
| ‘More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing Since the 1990s’, Cheekwood, Nashville | |
| ‘Mission School: Energy That is All Around’, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco | |
| ‘Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson, Chris Corales’, Adams and Ollman, Portland | |
| 2012 | ‘Two Person Exhibition With Kristin Baker’, EXPO Chicago, Chicago |
| ‘Creature From the Blue Lagoon’, Martos Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Portrait of a Generation’, The Hole, New York | |
| ‘Pink Caviar’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Streetopia’, The Luggage Store, San Francisco | |
| ‘Dialogue of Hands’, East Gymnasium, City of Glasgow College, Glasgow (Curated by Three Blows for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012) | |
| ‘Illegitimate Business’, Will Brown Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2011 | ‘SECA Art Award’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (Performance by Sun Foot and curating music for event) |
| ‘In the Gardens’, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne | |
| ‘Twin Infinities’, Nomad Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | |
| ‘Art Parcours Night’, Art|42| Basel, Basel (Chris Johanson performs with his band 'Sun Foot' ) | |
| ‘New York Minute’, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow | |
| ‘The Mercury Seven and the New Nine’, Artery, Portland | |
| ‘Chris Johanson, Charley Harper & Matt Keegan’, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘It Takes A Tribe: Shrunken Head 5th Anniversary Show’, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland | |
| 2010 | ‘75 Years of Looking Forward, 75th Anniversary Show’, MOMA, San Francisco |
| ‘Salad Days’, The Journal Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Knock Knock’, Needles & Pens, San Francisco | |
| ‘Wild Thing’, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Draw’, Museo De La Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico City | |
| ‘Flower Show’, International Art Objects, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Aktualität eines Mediums — Nader Ahriman bis Chen Zhen’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna | |
| ‘Final San Francisco Show’, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Fine Line’, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
| ‘Festival of Endless Gratitude’, Box Cutter Gallery, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Disorder Disorder’, Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales | |
| ‘Postermat’, The Hole, New York | |
| 2009 | ‘The North County Invitational’, Cals Pharmacy, Portland |
| ‘1999-10 Year Anniversary Show’, China Art Objects, Los Angeles | |
| ‘New York Minute’, Depart Foundation, Rome | |
| ‘A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| ‘15 Years of New Image Art’, New Image Arts, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Songs from the Treetops’, PDX Contemporary, Portland (curated by Harrell Fletcher) | |
| ‘Impossible Instruments/Future Flags’, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland | |
| 2008 | ‘Lots Of Things Like That’, Apex Art, New York |
| ‘Dropped Frames’, Elk Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Menagerie: Animals and Nature’, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Poster Renaissance 2’, New Image Art, West Hollywood, California | |
| ‘Second Nature’, Parc Heintz, Dexia Banque Internationale a Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Coordinated by Galerie Nosbaum and Reding) | |
| ‘Whateverʼs whatever’, The hydra school project, Hydra, Greece | |
| ‘Impossible Instruments Future Flags’, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland | |
| ‘Dark Milk’, MILK CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen | |
| 2007 | ‘In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years’, The Luggage Store, San Francisco |
| ‘Fractured Figure’, DESTE Foundation, Athens | |
| ‘Euphorion- Art From San Francisco’, Pierogu Leipzig, New York | |
| ‘Pierogi Flatfilling’, ArtNews Projects, Berlin (an interactive curatorial project) | |
| ‘The Incomplete’, Chelsea Art Museum, New York | |
| ‘Group Show’, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York | |
| ‘A Collaboration’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative’, Thomas Gane Gallery, London | |
| 2006 | ‘Happiness/Berline Biennale , 4th Berlin Biennial’ (curated by Martin Germann) |
| ‘Have New Yes’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen | |
| ‘this talk we have, this talk we have had, this talk we have/have had’, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection’, DESTE Foundation, Athens | |
| ‘New Works’, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago | |
| ‘SINCE 2000: Printmaking now’, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| 2005 | ‘Looking at Words’, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York |
| ‘Good Timing’, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
| ‘Solo Show Solo Soul’, Baronian Francey, Brussels (project by Chris Johanson) | |
| ‘Monuments for the USA’, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco | |
| ‘Stoners vs. Drunks’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
| Istanbul Biennale, Turkey | |
| Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘The Early Show’, White Columns, New York | |
| 2004 | ‘Group Show’, Anne de Villepoix, Paris |
| Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris | |
| ‘Beautiful Losers’, Cincinnati Center for the Arts, Cincinatti | |
| ‘Color Wheel Oblivion’, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico (Curated by Chris Perez) | |
| ‘Recent Acquisitions’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco | |
| ‘Lo-Gressive Living: Works on Paper from the San Francisco Bay Area’, The Approach, London | |
| 2003 | ‘Taqueria Cancun’, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston |
| ‘Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art’, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle | |
| ‘Comic Release’, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania traveling to The Center for Contemporary Art | |
| ‘Flipping the Bird’, Vox Populi, Phildelphia | |
| 2002 | Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco |
| Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | |
| Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art | |
| 2001 | ‘Widely Unknown’, Deitch Projects, New York |
| Hammond Museum, North Salem | |
| ‘East Meets West’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | |
| ‘The Sensational Line’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver | |
| ‘The Portrait Show’, New Image Arts, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Jess Hilliard: an undying fascination for all animals, especially the cute ones’, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Untitled 2001’, Spiral, Tokyo | |
| Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison | |
| 2000 | ‘Extra’, (Super)Meta', Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens |
| ‘Deterritorialization of Process’, Artist Space, San Francisco | |
| Collectors Choice, Exit Art | |
| ‘THE Happiness Show’, Dirt Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Utopia’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Liste 2000, Basel | |
| ‘Pot O'Gold’, Patrizia Outore Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Rare, New York | |
| 1999 | ‘Coup d'Etat’, Alleged Fine Arts, New York |
| ‘Museum Pieces’, De Young Museum, San Francisco | |
| ‘The Levels’, La Panaderia, Mexico City | |
| Liste 99, Basel | |
| New Image Arts, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Scopic’, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose | |
| ‘Survivalists’, Southern Exposure, San Francisco | |
| ‘On Paper’, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen | |
| 1998 | ‘He Swam Down, Away’, Audiello Fine Arts, New York |
| Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco | |
| ‘The Mind Harvest Series’, La Panaderia, Mexico City | |
| ‘Move 2’, New Image Arts, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Selections Summer 98’, The Drawing Center, New York | |
| ‘Alter-Nativity’, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco | |
| 1997 | ‘Oddity’, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco |
| ‘The Independents’, Alleged Fine Arts, New York | |
| ‘Switch Stance’, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Mission Community Art Show’, Starcleaners, San Francisco | |
| ‘Me, Myself, and I’, Timithy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Bay Area Now’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco | |
| ‘Waveforms, Skate(board)ing the Urban Forest’, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History | |
| 1996 | ‘Necessary Evil Kneivel’, Alleged Fine Arts, New York |
| ‘Guy’, Four Walls, San Francisco | |
| ‘Shred Sled Symposium’, The Thread Waxing Space, New York | |
| 1995 | ‘Special Friends’, Adobe Book Shop, San Francisco |
| ‘Dysfunctional, an exhibition of Skateboard Art and Design’, Blue Note Gallery, London | |
| ‘The Finale’, Figure 5, San Francisco | |
| ‘Wild Side’, L.A.C.E., San Francisco | |
| ‘The New Millenium Degenerate Art Show’, The Lab, San Francisco | |
| 1994 | ‘Combine Effort’, Figure 5, San Francisco |
| 1993 | ‘The T-Shirt Show’, Works Gallery, San Jose |
| 1991 | ‘Chain Reaction’, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1990 | ‘The Flower Show’, Emmanuel Ratnitsky Found Objects, San Francisco |
Bibliography
Press
| 2022 | Victoria Woodock: ‘Open your mind to meditative art’, Financial Times, 19/01/2022 |
| 2021 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art reviews: Barbara Rae I Chris Johanson I Jesse Wine’, The Scotsman, 20/02/2021 |
| 2018 | Sarah Nechamkin: ‘Remembering the Scene at Alleged, Where ’90s Misfits Found a Home Skaters and artists look back at their storied haunt’, The Cut, 24/08/2018 |
| 2017 | Zanes, Anna: ‘Chris Johanson X Johanna Jackson/ The Middle Riddle’, Office Magazine, 05/05/2017 |
| 2015 | Thibault, Sarah : Solve for X: Chris Johanson‘s Equations at Altman Siegel, SFAQ, 16/11/2015 |
| Gregory, Hannah : ‘Mission School’ Artist Chris Johanson Captures California‘s Singular Ethos, Artsy, 24/07/2015 | |
| 2014 | Johnson, Ken: ‘Prickly but Puppyish in San Francisco’, New York Times, 24/04/2014 |
| 2012 | McGee, Barry and Johanson, Chris: ‘GURU(S): Artists Barry McGee and Chris Johanson’, Papermag, 11/2012 |
| Jon Raymond: ‘Golden State. Jon Raymond on the art of Chris Johanson’, Artforum, 10/2012 | |
| Chris Johanson ‘I‘ve lived quite a few lifetimes‘, Believer Magazine, 02/2012 | |
| Johanson, Chris and Jackson, Jo: ‘Chris and Jo: The Way We Live’, Apartamento, 09 2012 | |
| 2011 | Lepage, Anaïs: ‘Chris Johanson American Dream, Ici Et Maintenant’, Roven, 28/02/2011 |
| ‘Normal Natural Shit: Chris Johanson speaks to Nadiah Fellah’, New American Paintings, 19/01/2011 | |
| ‘Artist to watch’, The Art Economist, Issue 7 2011 | |
| 2004 | bwana: ‘cj landia’, Pencil Fight, 2004 |
| 2003 | Johanson, Chris: ‘Death’, Arkitip, Issue 0022 30/11/2003 |
| Wilson, Michael: ‘One Piece at a Time’, Frieze, Issue 79 11/2003 | |
| Berger, Jamie: Adobe proved fertile ground for ‘Mission School’ artist, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/04/2003 | |
| Helfand, Glen: ‘Big time’, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19/03/2003 | |
| 2002 | Helfand, Glen: ‘The Mission School’, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Volume 36, Number 28 10/04/2002 |
| 2000 | Johanson, Chris: ‘YOU ARE THERE’, Alleged Press, New York, 2000 |
| 1995 | Porges, Maria: ‘Chris Johanson’, Art Issues, 09/1995 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2013 | McFarland, Mack: ‘Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson, and Chris Corales at Adams and Ollman‘, NY Arts, 18/09/2013 |
| Vankin, Deborah: ‘Chris Johanson MOCA art show: life, death, and the ‘River of Time‘’, Los Angeles Times, 26/06/2013 | |
| 2012 | Walsh, Brienne: ‘Chris Johanson‘, Art in America online, 26/12/2012 |
| Martinez, Christina Catherine: ‘Invaluable Objects’, ArtSlant San Francisco, 28/02/2012 | |
| 2011 | ‘Chris Johanson: Alright Alright’, this is tomorrow, 17/11/2011 |
| Smith, Roberta: ‘Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott‘, New York Times, 15/07/2011 | |
| Helfand, Glen: ‘Chris Johanson: Altman Siegel’, Artforum, 07/2011 | |
| ‘The Malmö Konsthall Presents Chris Johanson‘s Playful & Humorous Works’, Art Knowledge News, 2011 | |
| 2010 | Kuennen, Joel: ‘Backwards Towards the Future‘, ArtSlant Chicago, 13/09/2010 |
| 2009 | Wolff, Jon: ‘Chris Johanson’s ‘Continuality’ opens‘, The Davidson online, 19/03/2009 |
| Farrell, Katie: ‘A Meld of Gallery Artists‘, ArtSlant San Francisco, 23/02/2009 | |
| McClintock, Diana: ‘Review: Chris Johanson at Van Every Smith Galleries‘, Sculpture Magazine, Volume 28 2009 | |
| 2008 | O'Neill Butler, Lauren: ‘Chris Johanson: Deitch Projects’, Artforum International, 12/2008 |
| O'Neill Butler, Lauren: ‘Chris Johanson: Deitch Projects‘, Artforum International, 12/2008 | |
| Westcott, James: ‘Chris Johanson: Totalities‘, Art Review Online, 30/09/2008 | |
| Johnson, Paddy: ‘Chris Johanson at Deitch Projects‘, The L Magazine, 17/09/2008 | |
| 2006 | Nelson, Arty: ‘He Walks the Line’, LA Weekly, 08/06/2006 |
| 2004 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Medium first, then meaning‘, The Scotsman, 23/11/2004 |
| Hedges, Ruth: ‘Disturbed by the ‘burbs‘, The List, 04/11/2004 | |
| 2003 | Helfand, Glen: ‘Crtitic‘s Picks: Chris Johanson’, Artforum, 09/2003 |
| Sheets, Hilarie M: ‘The Dude Is New Age And He’s Proud of It’, The New York Times, 20/04/2003 | |
| 2002 | Johnson, Ken: ‘Chris Johanson: Now Is Now’, The New York Times, 22/11/2002 |
| Gioni, Massimiliano: ‘The Whitney Biennial: All the Small Things’, Flash Art, 05/2002 | |
| Cotter, Holland: ‘Depicting Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent’, The New York Times, 08/03/2002 | |
| 2000 | Frank, Peter: ‘S.F. DRAWING SHOW, THE HAPPINESS SHOW‘, LA Weekly, 06/2000 |
| Golonu, Berin: ‘Scopic: Magnify the Times‘, Artweek, 02/2000 | |
| ‘THE REAL JUNK: Garbage Man Chris Johanson Draws Shitty’, Vice, Volume 7 2000 | |
| 1998 | Baker, Kenneth: ‘Jarring Street Scenes In Johanson’s ‘Trips‘, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/09/1998 |
| Freedman, Marcy: ‘Chris Johanson‘, San Francisco Weekly, 02/09/1998 |
Publications
| 2023 | Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York |
| 2022 | Subject Matter, Unblivion, Peace Train of Thought | How I Figured Out How to Have a Show in 2021, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2013 | Chris Johanson, Phaidon Press, London/ New York |
| 2011 | Peaceable Kingdom, Nieves, Zurich |
| 2008 | Sun Power Is Why, Baronian Francey Brussels, Belgium |
| 2007 | PLEASE LISTEN I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT IS by CHRIS JOHNSON (monograph), Alleged Press/ Damiani Editore, Bologna |
| 2006 | A limited edition book by Chris Johnson, Alleged Press, New York |
| I am glad for you that you exist, Nieves, Zurich | |
| 2005 | VITAMIN D, Phaidon Press, London/ New York |
| 2004 | Chris Johanson, Deitch projects, New York |
| The Beauty and the Blemish, Deitch projects, New York | |
| 2000 | You are there, Alleged Press, New York |
Exhibition Publications
| 2012 | Windows, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York |
| 2010 | Totalities, Deitch projects, New York |
| 2004 | Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
| 2002 | 2002 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |