BIO AND ARCHIVE

In 2024/5 he was the artist in residence at Merz, Scotland and Le Maison De Barbara, Ayvalik, Turkey and in 2021 Johnson-Perkins was involved with two residencies at: The Belgrave Arts Studio, Serbia and Correlation Contemporary, Peru: and his work was also recently shown at: The Rotterdam Photo Festival, Holland, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy, Austral Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Buenos Aires, Argentina, The International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece, at Ars Electronica with .ART Gallery x VR-All-Ar, Linz, Austria and at Boundaries, Bekarei Video Art Space, Berlin, Germany and he was also featured in BOSS Magazine, Beijing, China, Al-Tiba9 Online Contemporary Art Magazine, Barcelona, Spain and Aerogramme, New York, USA. 

Johnson-Perkins has exhibited work in over 50 group events, including: The Venice Biennale, Italy, The Athens Photo Festival, Greece, Digital Long Island Media Festival, New York, USA, Lux Artist Film Festival, London, UK and at The Hay-On-Wye Festival, Wales, UK. He has exhibited alongside a huge variety of international artists including: Alison Knowles, A-YO, Ben Voutier, Gustav Metzger, Sean Scully, Littlewhitehead, Andre Stitt, Michael Nyman, Bill Drummond, Bob and Roberta Smith, Vlad Monroe, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Alan Kane, Matt Stokes, Matthew Cowan, Robin Klassnik, Juneau Projects, Ross Sinclair, and Antony Gormley. In 2013/14 he exhibited at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy. During The Legacy of Emily Harvey, Curated by Berty Skuber & Henry Martin, which was held as part of the 55th Venice Biennale Festival. 

Johnson-Perkins has participated on many international artist residencies programs including: The British School at Rome, November 2019 (www.bsr.ac.uk), The Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, Venice, Italy, 23rd February – 27th March 2010 and August/July 2014 & 2017 (www.emilyharveyfoundation.org), The Chinese European Arts Centre, 1st June - 31st July 2015 (www.ceac99.org), The Bridge Guard Residency, Sturovo, Slovakia, 1st October 2010 – 31st March 2011 (www.bridgeguard.org). The Kathmadu Contemporary Art Centre Residency, Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal, 9th - 17th February, 2012, (www.kathmanduarts.org), The Vytlacil Campus Residency, The Art Student League of New York, USA, 1st August - 28th August, 2012. (www.theartstudentsleague.org). 

In 2009/10 Johnson-Perkins created several custom made installations for two of the most iconic art spaces built in the UK. Poole Museum, Formerly The Kube Gallery in 2000, designed by Richard Horde and The Public Building which is a unique exhibition space that was originally designed by award-winning architect Will Alsop and completed by Flannery & de la Pole architects. His work has appeared on the BBC and in a variety of International Newspapers, Art Magazines, Catalogues and Radio programs.  

Gallery and Educational Work 

In 2006/7 he was the Director of Novellus Castellum, an art organisation, in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK. This organised a two-year program of arts events and curated a large exhibition space in a disused warehouse in the East End of Newcastle. Novellus Castellum was also part of the Curatorial Biennale at Apex Arts, New York, USA. Aug 2007. (www.novelluscastellum.blogspot.com) In 2006 he was also a co-founder of Newcastle’s The Star and Shadow, Cinema. This is one of the leading UK independent cinemas, which has been written about extensively in the UK national press. As well as being instrumental in the set up of this venue, He also, over 5 years, curated here, a series of artist video anthologies, film events and exhibitions. (www.starandshadow.org.uk) In the UK, he has worked as a Lecturer at Gateshead College (www.gateshead.ac.uk) and a Fellow at Northumbria University (www.northumbria.ac.uk) and as a Freelance Arts Facilitator at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. (www.baltic.art) Internationally 

Johnson-Perkins has recently worked in the Middle East as the Course Director of BA Fine Art, at the Scientific College of Design, Oman (www.scd.edu.om), 2011/12. Between 2012/14 as the Pathway Leader for the Foundation Fine Art course and BA FIne Art Lecturer at the British Higher School of Art and Design, a.k.a. Universal University, Moscow, Russia (britishdesign.ru/en). From 2014-22 he was a Senior Tutor for Content A (CELE) and Module Convener for the Art and Design courses at Nottingham University (www.nottingham.edu.cn/en), Ningbo, China and he has also recently been a visiting lecturer at Xiamen University, China (www.art.xmu.edu.cn). He currently works on the Art and Design courses at Oncampus, Winchester School of Art, UK. 

Exhibitions Selected Group 

2026 Jaipur Art Week, India 
2025 Photographic Urges, Galleria Arnold Manda, South Africa Human Echoes: Beyond the Digital Horizon & Post Digital Reality (Closing Event), Video Art International Streaming Festival, Austria 
2024 The GenAI Summit, ArtX Gallery, San Francisco, The Palace of Fine Arts, USA Post Digital Reality, Video Art International Streaming Festival, Austria Nord Art, Budelsdorf, Germany Free Art Fair, POPOP, Taipei, Taiwan 
2023 Lift off Global Shorts, London, UK SELF AS A SERVICE XOR Space pavilion at the 6th edition of The Wrong Biennale Butterfly Transformation Beijing International Design Week Zhang Jiawan Design Center. TongZhou, Beijing, China MATERIAL THINKING, International Contemporary Art Bienalle, Hatian Sky Art Centre, Quingdao /Beijing Nanchizi Museum, China INNER WORLD, Ely Centre of Contemporary Art, USA 
2022 LIMITLESS, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Tsinghua University, Beijing/Haitian Sky Art Centre, Quigdao, China Rotterdam Photo Festival, Holland 
2021 CHANGE, Modern *8 Pier, Mykolaiv, Ukraine Ars Electronica .ART Gallery x VR-All-Ar, Linz, Austria THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE Monteserico Castle, Italy BOUNDARIES, Bekarei Video Art Space, Berlin, Germany Ctrl+ (In Collaboration with Teng Long), Beijing 2102 Gallery, China Untamed: On Wilderness and Civilization, The Alpine Fellowship symposium, Fjällnäs, Sweden International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece AUSTRAL Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2019 Rolling Snowball, Organised by Chinese European Arts Centre AMNUA, The Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China 
2017 The Quickest Distance is Not Always Via a Straight Line, The Wrong Bienalle The Reserrection of Cosmicman (With Dina Johnson-Perkins), The City Gallery, Peterborough, UK 
2016 BodySpace, Hangzhou Public Library, China 
2015 I AM, 9 Arbat St, Moscow, Russia 
2014 DIY Reality, 17 Nastavichesky, Moscow, Russia When Suspicions are Becoming the Norm, FABRIKA, in association with Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia  2013 The Legacy of Emily Harvey, Curated by Berty Skuber & Henry Martin, Emily Harvey Foundation Archive Exhibition, Venice Biennale Papyri Guestbook and Similar Departures, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy 
2012 KC Dunaj, Bratislava, Slovakia Strange Objects on a Lawn, Scientific College of Design, Muscat, Oman Dinefwr Festival, Gwly Lendyyiaeth, Wales Portrait to Portrait, (Antonio Nodar), Vol. 2, Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal Phelwidek Photo 12, Artbázis Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 
2011 Bus Stop Venice, curated by Elysium Gallery, Venice Biennale, Galleria Perela, Italy Bus Stop, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK Sturovo Super Hero Society, The Hay-On-Wye Festival, Wales, UK 
2010 Athens Photo Festival 10 (In collaboration with Domosthenes Agrafiotis), Athens, Greece Wolf and Badger/Salon Contemporary, Selfridges Department Store, Oxford St, London, UK 
2009 Building with Colour, Curated by Professor Helen Baker, Gallery North, Northumbria University, UK Greatings Programs, (In collaboration with Conor Lawless), Tron, Glasgow, UK Digital Showcase, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, Texas, USA Attitude, Center for Contemporary Public Arts, Bitola, Macedonia 
2008 Video Art and Architecture VI, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Illuminators International, (In collaboration with Conor Lawless), Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport, Russia Urban Identity, Monkey town, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, (In collaboration with Matthew Cowan), Curated by Rebecca Shatwell, The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, UK Robots, Durham International Festival of Art, Durham, UK 
2007 Digital Long Island Media Festival, IMAC Theater, New York, USA The International Experimental Film Festival, Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania Video Art & Architecture III, The Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania Video Art & Architecture II, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 
2006 First Play Berlin, Hau 2, Berlin, Germany 
2005 Nostos, (In collaboration with Nicholas John Montgomery), Northern Lights Film Festival, Side Cinema, Newcastle, UK 
2004 Lux Artist Film, The Royal College, London, UK Video Art & Architecture I, Culteral el Molino Atomic, Barcelona, Spain 2003 Crossovers Japan, Curated by Tomomi Iguchi, Toyota Museum of Art, International House, Kyoto, Japan 

Selected Solo 

2025 Inside/Outside, Merz Gallery, Scotland 
2024 La Maison De Barbara, Ayvalik, Turkey 
2018 Hula, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 2017 Indefinite Memories, Liangzhu Culture Centre, Hangzhou, China (Curated by Zhanna Khromykh) 
2015 Please Wait Whilst...Monkey Magic Sings Chinese Covers of 80's Pop Classics in Times Square, The Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China 
2014 The Starry Sky Lights Up Because of You, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
2013 The Great Battle, ARTPLAY, Roland Academy, Moscow, Russia 
2012 Back to the Future, Arts Student League of New York, USA 
2011 The Box, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK The Sturovo Super Hero Society, The Bridge Guard Residency, stúrovo, Slovakia 
2010 New Works, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy Who Killed Top of The Pops, Nospace, Bangkok, Thailand Robot Invasion, The Public, West Bromwich, UK 
2009 Retro Robot, Kube Gallery (Now Poole Museum), Poole, Dorset, UK Pixel Talk, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furnace, Cumbria, UK Meteoric Toy, DLI Musuem Gallery, Durham, UK 
2008 Urban Art Show, Foundry, London, UK How Does it Feel?, Nospace, Bangkok, Thailand 50 Robots, Exhibit Gallery, London, UK Robot Dreams, Red Gallery, Hull, UK 
2007 Turn me On, Waygood Gallery (Now BALTIC39), Newcastle, UK 
2006 Jet Pack, The UK Arts Council, Newcastle, UK 

Residencies 

2025 MERZ, Sanquhar, Scotland 
2024 La Maison De Barbara Residency, Ayvalik, Turkey 
2021 Belgrade Arts Studio, Serbia Correlation Contemporary, Lima, Peru 
2019 The British School at Rome, Italy 
2017 The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (Third Appointment) 
2015 The Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China 
2014 The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (Second Appointment) 
2012 The Art Student League of New York, USA The Kathmadu Contemporary Art Centre at the Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal 
2011 Coachwerks, Brighton, UK The Bridge Guard Residency, Stúrovo, Slovakia 
2010 The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy 
2007 Rednile, Exhibition - I Won the Maths Prize at School (In Collaboration with Conor Lawless), Sunderland, UK 
2003 Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan 

Presentations 

2024 La Maison De Barbara Residency, Ayvalik, Turkey Itchen College, Southampton, UK 
2021 Belgrade Arts Studio, Serbia 
2020 KEYNOTE TOPIC: Bracing for the storm: Online Vs Face to Face (KEYNOTE SPEAKER) International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning, Seoul, South Korea, 19th-20th May 
2019 An account of: Teaching, Learning and Management at Nottingham University, Ningbo, China, TERA (Teaching Education and Research Association), Bali, Indonesia, 18th-19th December 
2018 The Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Xiamen University, China 
2016 The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
2015 Xiamen University, Xiamen, China 
2014 Yale University (NUS), Singapore 
2012 The Art Student League of New York, USA 
2011 The Bridge Guard, Stúrovo, Slovakia 2009 Building With Colour Symposium, Northumbria University, UK 
2002 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK Curation 2007 Apexart, Curatorial Biennial, New York, USA 
2006-7 Novellus Castellum, Newcastle, UK 

Bibliography 

2025 Artist Monograph, Margin Press 50 Artists to Discover, Florence Contemporary Art Press, Italy 
2024 Visual Arts Journal, Sep Magazineum Magazine, Apr 
2023 Beijing News, Nov Butterfly Transformation Beijing International Design Week, Exhibition Video Review, Nov 
2022 LandEscape Magazine, Nov Artupmi, Magazine, Italy, Feb 
2021 Aerogramme, Vol 2, Issue 1, USA, Nov Boss Magazine, China, Sep Al-Tiba19 Magazine, Spain, Oct 
2020 Traquil Waves of Teaching, Learning and Management. People: Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6 No. 1, May Photo Art Podcast (JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS, PETER KENNARD, IOANNA SAKELLARAKI & HEIKO SCHMIDT), Jamie House, August 
2019 10 Years, BSR Film, Italy, Margin Productions, November 
2018 Murze Magazine. Issue 3, November 
2017 Moment Magazine, August The Quickest Distance is Not Always Via a Straight Line, The Wrong Bienalle, Catalogue Rapsodia Magazine, Italy, Fall/December ISBN 2532-1838 In Conversation with Dr Helen Adkins Film, The Emily Harvey Foundation, July Indefinite Memories Film, China, Margin Productions, July A5 Magazine, August United Projects Newsletter, August/September 
2016 International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology ISSN 2313-3759, Vol. 3 No. 4, April Ningbo Focus Magazine, April 
2015 Xiamen News, China, Website 28/7/2015 Ningbo University Press, China, May 
2012 PTC2, Serbian TV 
2011 Wave Radio, Czech Republic, March 
2010 Athens Photo Festival 10, Greece, Exhibition Catalogue Digimag Magazine, Italy, May BBC West Midland TV, 'Today Program' News Feature, UK, TX 9/2/10 West Bromwich, Express and Star, UK 
2009 The Northern Echo, March, UK Bournmouth Echo, July, UK Artrabbit, UK 'Teaching out of the box', Teachers TV - TX 2,3,4/6/09 Supersweet Magazine, UK, February Building with Colour, Catalogue, Gallery North, Northumbria University, ISBN 0-9561206-0-1 The Guardian, UK, 11/1/09 The Crack Magazine, UK, 1/1/09 
2008 The Metro, UK, 9/5/08 BK Magazine, Thailand, 8/5/08 Relavant Magazine, Barcelona, Spain, March Fefe Magazine, 6th Edition, Rome, Italy, March art, art, art Magazine, UK, March The Chronicle, UK, 18/5/07 2007 Sunday New York Times, USA, 10/11/07 Sunday Long Island Newsday, P3, USA, 10/11/07 The Chronicle, UK, 18/5/07 The Guardian, March 2003 Kyoto aStation 2002 The Times, UK, Critics Choice, 10/7/02 Billy Connolly’s World Tour, BBC 1 - TX 01/04/02 Metro, UK, Art Review, Lee Fenwich, 17/6/02 

Awards and Commissions

 2026 Longlisted for Henki and Senioritas Prizes
2025 Eaton Fund UK 
2022 Shortlisted The Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize Prize, Italy 
2021 Won the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize, President's Award Won the Bath Open Prize, People's Choice Award Finalist for the 'Airland 4.0 | Nature, Technology, Energy' Competition Shortlisted for the Passpartout Photo Prize, Italy Digital Art OBSERVATORY, Competition Winner, Ukraine/UK Runner Up, The Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize, Sweden <
2020 Shortlisted The Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize Prize, Italy 
2019 Won, Artspace Connections, Digital Art Competition NWCDTP Research Program Award, The British School at Rome, Italy 
2018 Longlisted The Chaiya Art Award, UK Hula, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, FHSS Play Conference Commission 
2011 Megablocks HQ Canada, Mega Paintings Commission 
2010 Arts Council International Residency Grant, UK 
2009 Cecil Sharp House Megapole Installation, London, UK 
2008 Antony Gormley, The Angel of the North 10th Aniversary Commission, Baltic Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK x
2007 Arts Council Independent Artist Grant 
2006 Arts Council Independent Research Grant, Novellus Castellum 2005 Northern Film and Media, Travel Grant 
2003 Arts Council International Residency Grant 
2002 Arts Council Independent Artist Grant 
1996 UCA (Formerly KIAD), Student Award for Painting 

Relevant work

 2025 Art and Design Tutor, Arts University Bournemouth, UK 
2022 Art and Design Tutor, Oncampus, Winchester School of Art, UK 
2014-2022 Senior Tutor, Content A (CELE) Art and Design Convener, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China 
2012-14 BA FIne Art Lecturer/Pathway Leader, Foundation Fine Art, The British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia 
2011-12 Director of BA Fine Art, Scientific College of Design, Oman 2006-10 Freelance Artist, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 
2008-10 Lecturer, Art Foundation and Interactive media, Gateshead College, UK 
2006-07 Director, Novellus Castellum, Exhibition and Project Space, Newcastle, UK 2006 Co-Founder, The Star and Shadow Cinama, Newcastle 
> 2005-06 Lecturer, Tyne Metropolitan College, Newcastle, UK 2004 Visiting Lecturer MA, Northumbria University, UK Visiting Lecturer BA, Newcastle University, UK 
2002-03 New Media Fellow & Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK 
2001 Internship, David Nash, Wales, UK 
1998-99 Internship, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK Work in Public Collections Johnson-Perkins has works in many private and public collections across the world

Visual Arts Journal, Sep 24 
Beijing News, Sep 23 
LandEscape Magazine, Nov 22 
Al Tiba9 Magazine, Oct 21 
Photo Art Podcast, Aug 20, JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS, PETER KENNARD, IOANNA SAKELLARAKI & HEIKO SCHMIDT, 2021 (AUDIO ONLY)