About – Sarah Anne Johnson

Sarah Anne Johnson is a Winnipeg-born multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, painting, sculpture, video, and performance. She holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Sarah is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and her work is held in several major permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum. Sarah is best known for her photo-based practice in which she physically and digitally alters large-format prints with oil paint, gold leaf, stickers, and other materials.

Although she has made art about her family and various other subjects, her relationship with nature has remained a consistent subject across her body of work, from her early series of photographs documenting her time as a treeplanter in Northern Canada, to her current work that examines the nostalgia we feel for a deeper, wild, more rugged connection with the natural world.

Sarah Anne Johnson is commercially represented by the following galleries:

Sarah Anne Johnson

Yossi Milo Gallery (US)

Stephen Bulger Gallery (Canada)

Division Gallery (Canada)