Kyle Bellucci Johanson

Critical Studies

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Kyle Bellucci Johanson holds a B.A. in Reconciliation Studies and Art from Bethel University, studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and completed an M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts. Kyle was a founding fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, and experimental platform focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across east and south Los Angeles. In 2018 he opened table, a temporary project space dedicated to situating artist’s practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. From 2018-2022 Kyle was a visiting faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Illinois Chicago. Kyle’s work has recently been on view at Chicago Artists Coalition, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM), Automata (Los Angeles, California), ALTES FINANZAMT (Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultual Metropolitano – MET Quito (Quito, Ecuador), and Human Resources (Los Angeles, California). Kyle is a 2022-2023 participant of the studio program at the Whitney ISP.

"The figure is nothing unless you can twist it around like a strange miracle."

Willem De Kooning

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