Grant Klarich Johnson - August 2024

Grant Klarich Johnson is a writer, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles, where he serves as Director of Communications at Regen Projects and teaches at UCLA and ArtCenter College of Design. Interested in international artistic trajectories, shared aesthetic impulses, and formal exchanges, his research considers twentieth and twenty-first century art, craft, textiles, and fashion in a global context. His work has been supported by a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellowship at The Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His writing and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Frieze, and The Brooklyn Rail among other publications, and catalogues including, ‘Catherine Opie: harmony is fraught,’ ‘With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985’ and ‘Emily Gernild, Black Lemons.’ He has worked directly with wide variety of artists on exhibition, performance, and publication projects, including Sheila Hicks, Senga Nengudi, and Lita Albuquerque. He holds a BA from Kenyon College, where he majored in studio art and English, and worked for The Kenyon Review, and a PhD in art history from the University of Southern California.