James Johnson (born 1976) received his M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 and his B.F.A. from Marywood University in 1999. He has exhibited his work in Philadelphia at Vox Populi, Arcadia University, Moore College of Art & Design, the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, and the Borowsky Gallery and nationally at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania), the Firehouse Gallery (Burlington, Vermont), Publico (Cincinnati, Ohio), Repetti (Long Island City, New York), ThreeWalls (Chicago, Illinois), and SPACE (Portland, Maine). He completed a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in 2007 and 2009. James was shortlisted for the West Prize in 2008. His work was exhibited with the West Collection at the NEXT art fair in Chicago in May 2009. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia where he is a member of Vox Populi and is Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Arts at Moore College of Art and Design. James' work can be viewed online at www.artnerd.org and www.voxpopuligallery.org.