Carmen Cartiness Johnson

Carmen Cartiness Johnson



About The Artist


Self-taught artist, and have had several solo shows and one residency at Rutgers Center for Print and Paper in 2005. During my residency I worked with the Master Printer and together we created “The Get Together” an adaptation of my original painting “Chit Chat and Apple Martini’s.” The result of the Rutgers residency is a work entitled “The Get Together” which was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2006 and is in the collections of nine museums around the state of New Jersey. My piece “Too Many Cooks” was published in “Looking Out, Looking In” an interpersonal textbook by Adler/Proctor/Towne. In addition, Pomegranate Press has published note cards using four images of my work. In 2011 I exhibited eighteen pieces of work at the Charles A. Wright African American History Museum in Detroit. September 2012, the University Health Systems of San Antonio purchased seven works for their new downtown facility. 2015 commissioned work installed in The Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, Texas. EXHIBITIONS Hunting Art Prize 2015, Finalist Reception, May 2015 Freeman Coliseum, Commission , January 2015 Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX, May 2014 UTSA, SEAS, Group Exhibition June 2013 - July 2013 United Health Systems, San Antonio, TX 2012, Permanent Collection San Antonio Painters, Blue Star Art Contemporary Art Center, May - August 2012 African American Museum Dallas, Carroll Harris Simms National Competition, 2012 Carver Community Cultural Center, Solo Show May 2011 Charles A. Wright Museum, Detroit Michigan, December 2010 - April 2011 SAVA Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, April 2010 80th. Annual San Antonio Artist Exhibition, 2010 SAVA Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, October 2008 Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Solo Show May – July 2008 78th Annual San Antonio Artist Exhibition, President Contributor Award, June 2008 GAGA Art Center, Garnerville, NY, Outsider Show, July 2007 Trenton City Museum, November 2006 Ellarslie Open 2006 April-June Bordentown Gallery, May 2006 Gallery on Lafayette, May – June 2005 Solo Show Ellarslie Museum, April-June 2005, Annual Juried Show Gallery 125, February – April 2005 William Grant Still Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Show, October-November 2004, Gallery 125, September – November 2004 Gallery 125, June – August 2004 The Bordentown Gallery, April - September 2004 Ellarslie Museum, April 2004 Annual Juried Show, Presidents Award October 2003, Friends of Goodstay Gardens, Evening of Art, second place October 2003, selected as 1 of 14 artist out of 96 artist who submitted designs for Mount Holly New Jersey “Monkeys on Parade” Artworks of Trenton, May 2003, Water Theme April 2003, exhibited in “Best of the Best of 2003”, Trenton Museum RESIDENCY AND WORKSHOPS Creative Capital Workshop, San Antonio, TX 2010 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper 2005, Artist in Residence COLLECTIONS The Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX University Health Systems, San Antonio, TX Charles A. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI Rutgers Center For Print & Paper, 2005 “THE GET TOGETHER”, HAND PULLED LITHOGRAPH Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008 Library of Congress Purchase “The Get Together,“ July 2006 Hunterdon Museum of Art Jersey City Museum Montclair Art Museum Morris Museum Newark Public Library New Jersey State Council on the Arts New Jersey State Museum Noyes Museum of Art Zimmerli Art Museum Colonial Burlington Foundation, Inc. 2001 painting; “Somethin Ain’t Right”