chido johnson 5440 Cass Ave. Apt. 901 . Detroit, MI 48202 . United States . 313 610 1240 . chidox.com Personal Information Born: Nyadiri, Zimbabwe, Africa Citizenship: United States Language: English, Shona Education 1997-2000 MFA IN STUDIO ART emphasis in Sculpture.The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. 1994-1997 BFA IN STUDIO ART With an emphasis in Sculpture, Painting, and Drawing, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. 1990-1993 STUDIO ART With an emphasis in Sculpture, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. 1987-1989 STUDIO ART With an emphasis in Painting and Drawing, Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia. 1987 STUDIO ART general, Harare Polytechnical College, Harare, Zimbabwe Teaching Experience 2002- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIR SECTION OF SCULPTURE, COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES, DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Administrative and academic responsibilities. Courses taught ranging from immediate to advanced including senior seminar and tutorials. 2008 VISITING ARTIST FACULTY, UMEA UNIVERSITY, UMEA, SWEDEN. A faculty exchange arrangement with Umea University and the CCS for the Fall of 2008. Involved with a workshop and studio visits ranging from undergrad- uate to graduate level students. 2007 VISITING ARTIST FACULTY, CORTONA UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM, Cortona, Italy. 2006 PART TIME VISITING ARTIST. CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART, BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN. Assisted the Sculpture graduate students on their projects. 2001-2002 VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS, IRVING, TEXAS. Responsible for all Sculpture studios both in graduate and undergraduate level, a Senior Seminar Class as well as a basic and an advanced drawing class. 2001 LECTURER, PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Carving Class. 2000-2001 INSTRUCTOR OF ART, THE VILLAGE OF THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. 1998-2000 INSTRUCTOR OF SCULPTURE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA. A Wood and Metal Sculpture. 1997-1998 TEACHING ASSISTANT OF SCULPTURE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA. Sculptural methods. 1995 SUBSTITUTE TEACHING OF ART, ATHENS ACADEMY, ATHENS, GA. 1989-1990 INSTRUCTOR OF ART, HARTZELL HIGH SCHOOL, OLD MUTARE MISSION ZIMBABWE, AFRICA. Fellowships, Workshops, and Research Related 2011 “wire car” workshops in Detroit and the vicinity for the a dance for Diego project. 2010 Coffee Lover project research in Jima (Kaffa) accomodated by the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Artist in Residence at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Mutare, Zimbabwe BAT, Visual Studies program affliated with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Mbare, Zimbabwe 2009 Awarded the 2009 Kresge Artist Fellows in the Visual Arts, Detroit, MI. The MacDowell Colony Fellowship Residence, Peterborough, NH 2008 Magnetite Workshop, directed a workshop hosted by the Ice Hotel with students from Umea University, in exploring the mineral magnetite as an art material, Kiruna, Sweden. 2007 Art Safari a La Cipressaia workshop, organized by Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, to Documento 07 and Sculpture Muenster 07, Germany, with 40 international artists. Visited the Venice Bienale 2007 with U.G.A. Cortona Program, Venice, Italy. 2004 Attended the panel lecture series Modernity & Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture after the 20th Century, 2004 Carnegie International, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 2003 International Sculpture Student Achievement Awards, Faculty Sponsor, International Sculpture Center, Sculpture Grounds, Hamilton, New Jersey. 2000 Working with fiber glass casting resin at the Sculpture Lab, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1994-1995 Researched contemporary Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe with an objective to organize a workshop of Zimbabwe and United States Sculptors. Together with Artist Horace Farlowe, Chairperson of Sculpture at the School of Art, University of Georgia. 1990 Apprenticeship with Venice Biennale Artist, Tapfuma Gutsa, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lectures & Panels 2012 W.A.W.A.D., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Chido Johnson, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. 2011 Why Detroit is a Great Place to be an Artist, MOCAD, Detroit, MI. Jack’s Vision, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Taking it to the Streets, An open discussion on environmental art, the impact such art has on the community and the environments and the motivations of the artists who create It. Panelists: Susan Goethel Campbell, Tyree Guyton, Chido Johnson and Cedric Tai. A Dance for Diego: Wire Car Cruise, a community oriented project, Techtown II, Detroit, MI Confluence, A panel on the figure in contemporary art, Sarah Siberman Art Gallery, Derwood, MD Non-Native, artist panel, The Butter Project, Royal Oak, MI. Artist presentation, presnted to FMCA, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI 2010 Let’s talk about love, baby project presentations, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare and in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Live and Direct Jurors Panel discussion,National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe. Chido Johnson, Works and Research, visiting artist lecture Chinhoyi University, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe Domestified Angstand Recent Works, National gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe. Contemporary aesthetical trends in the Western Art World, Ziva College, Harare, Zimbabwe. Wont you be my Valentine? Let’s talk about love, baby artist talk and performance on Valentine day, Oakland Univeristy Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan. Presented project Let’s talk about love, baby during CAA at The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 2009 Invited panelist on Detroit: Breeding Ground, panel discussion on the state of contemporary art in Detroit, MoNA, Pontiac, Michigan. Visiting Artist Lecturer, School of Art, Art History, and Design, Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana. Visiting Artist Lecturer, Department of Art, U.N.L.V., Las Vegas, Nevada. 2008 domestified angst: second recording lecture on current work, Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Visiting Lecturer, Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning Paris Program, Catholic University, Paris, France. Visiting Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. 2007 Invited Panelist on Symptom and Waste: Comments on uselessness in the fabric of the city, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 2006 Visiting Artist (partial residency), Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Visiting Lecturer, Ebonics Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. 2005 Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. 2004 Invited Panelist on African Diaspora Artists and Advisory Committee for the Looking Both Ways exhibit at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 2002-2005 Executive Board Member for Art On the Move, organizing temporal professional and educational public works within the city of Detroit, Michigan. 2002 Visiting Artist for the Asian Alliance and Philadelphia Cultural Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2001 Interrogating Diversity, invited panelist speaker, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Curating & Jurying 2013 Between Places, cutorial collaboration with Kirsten Leenaars at Art Institute of Chicago with CCS and SAIC studets exhibiting at 6018NORTH (Chicgao) and PLAV (Hamtramck). 2012 T(H)READ, installation by Nontsikelelo Mutiti, 2739Edwin Gallery, Hamtramick, MI The Haunted Hall #2, co curated with Brian Barr and Miranda Clark, Art Effect Gallery, Detroit, MI. 2011 Zimbabwe Pavilion, Venice Bienale 2011, cutorial and installational assistance, Venice, Italy 2010 5 blocks from Chinatown, Northend Studios, Detroit, MI Live and Direct, invited as an external juror for the award winning prizes, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe. 2007 Blank And Blank, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, Michigan. 2006 Another one…, Multiplicity project, Fine Arts Gallery, CCS, Detroit, Michigan. 2004 Head Count I, Organized and participated in an installation of heads in all media and material. Fine Arts Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. 2002 Elipsis, and S.P. student show at Upper Haggarty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas. 2001 Restrictive, student show at Upper Haggarty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas. Jury for the 35th Annual Lititz Art Show. Sponsored by Village Art Association. Lititz, Penn. 1995 Bridge- A collaborative project with Artist Mel Chin, current recipient of the Lamar Dodd Professional Chair of the University of Georgia, with high school art students from Cedar Schoals High School in Athens, Georgia, and Hartzell High School in Zimbabwe, Africa. 1994-1995 Organized two group shows in collaboration with Pamberi Studios, Hollywood, Florida. Organizing three collaborative Group Sex Show exhibitions at The 40WATT, Athens, Georgia. Exhibitions 2013 tese, iMOCA, Indianopolis, IN Let’s talk about love baby, Printed Matter, NY BOLT exchange, Chicago, IL. 2012 Suitcase Art, curated by Chicago curator Tricia Van Eck and the Hamburg Curator Kerstin Niemann, Künstler- haus Speckstrasse, Gängeviertel, Speckstrasse 85, Hamburg, Germany Detroit Now, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL. 6th Belle Isle Public Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI Jack’s Vision, Powerhouse Production (private viewing), Detroit, MI. I love you and ha ha ha ha, DEPE residency / intervention / installation, MOCAD, Detroit, MI. 2011 We’re all still here..., cutorial team; Julien Robson (organizer), Christopher Cook, Mark Harris, Rebecca Hart, Claire