Erin Johnson
Directing
Erin Johnson’s short films and immersive installations interlace documentary, experimental, and narrative filmmaking devices to interrogate notions of collectivity, dissent, and queer identity. In her shape-shifting videos, site-specific performances by artists, biologists, and film extras address ongoing legacies of scientific research and nationalism.
Johnson received an MFA and Certificate in New Media from UC Berkeley in 2013, attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2019 and recently completed residencies at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL), Lower Manhattan Community Council (LMCC), Hidrante (San Juan, PR), and Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY). She is Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has recently been exhibited or screened at MOCA Toronto (Toronto), Munchmuseet (Oslo), Times Square Arts (New York), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Boston), Billytown (The Hague), and Telfair Museums (Savannah).
Known for
Cayo Santiago
To Sea
Lake
December 30, 2019
Tomatoes
July 13, 2020
There are things in this world that are yet to be named
March 24, 2020
Salidas y Entradas | Exits and Entrances
May 31, 2018
Heavy Water
August 4, 2018
The Way Things Can Happen
January 2, 2018
Oranges
February 27, 2023
To Be Sound is to Be Solid
February 27, 2023
Come In
January 1, 2011
If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat
January 1, 2014
Behind the camera13
- 2023Norman Lear: A Life on Television Executive Producer
- 2023Oranges Director, Co-Producer
- 2023To Be Sound is to Be Solid Director, Writer, Producer
- 2020Tomatoes Director, Co-Producer, Director of Photography
- 2020There are things in this world that are yet to be named Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
- 2019Lake Director, Producer, Editor
- 2018Heavy Water Director, Editor
- 2018Salidas y Entradas | Exits and Entrances Director
- 2018The Way Things Can Happen Director, Editor