Open Air: Devin B. Johnson

Open Air is a monthly virtual series of live, intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe. Globally renowned curator Dexter Wimberly leads an engaging dialogue and review with artists across the African diaspora.

For April's installment, tune in and learn about the work of artist Devin B. Johnson.

This program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Devin B. Johnson obtained his BA in fine arts from the California State University Channel Islands in 2015 and his MFA at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 2019. In addition to being named an artist-in-residence for Fountainhead, Miami, in 2023, he was selected as an Artsy Vanguard in 2022, named to Forbes's 30 Under 30 Art and Design list that same year, was included in Cultured’s "Young Artists" list in 2021, and was one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency in 2020.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.