Michelle Lee Johnson
[they/she] (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA, USA) is an American artist based in London. Their practice engages with queerness, affect theory, and the commons to consider what it means to exist with others in an exploration of alternative methods of communality. Johnson received their MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2024.
I work across sculpture, moving image, sound, and installation. I am interested in ghosts, scraps, and disintegration — attending to these residues forms my process to address our material subjectivity. Often with a humorous tone, my work explores the dialectic within unresolved contradictions within dualistic thinking: belonging and alienation; care and neglect; queerness and conformity; desire and disgust; mundane and absurd. My practice also engages with the body through a queer lens as a site of transformation to interrogate and contradict binary systems of identity.