Follow me on Instagram to see pictures of my studio process. @staciemaya
Prints from the Museum Blue show are available. Get in touch if you want one!
Check out this virtual exhibition with the U of Georgia’s Dodd Galleries
My studio was featured in Hyperallergic’s “A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine”
Check out this beautiful catalog which accompanied my exhibit a few years ago at Prairie Lights in Iowa City!
EDUCATION
2023 MSUPL, Urban Policy, Hunter College, NYC
2004 MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
1999 BA, Communication Studies, University of Iowa
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor:
Summer 2009, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Fall 2008, THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Visiting Assistant Professor:
2006-07 & 2007-08, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
2005/06, NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Instructor of Record:
09/2002 - 05/2004, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS @ CHICAGO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023, Bushwick Open Studios @ Supermoon Art Space, Ridgewood, Queens
2023 Twelve Paintings, Suite Gallery, Dodd Galleries, University of Georgia
2022 The Patriot, O'Flaherty's, NYC
2021 Scattered, Stacie Johnson and Leslie Friedman, Museum Blue, St. Louis (online)
2020 Stacie Maya Johnson: Recent Paintings, Dodd Galleries, U of Georgia, (online)
2020 Painting at Night, artistmotherpodcast.com, March 7-28 (online)
2019 Drawn Lines, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NYC (solo)
2018 Nasty Women, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Anti-Art Fair, London, UK
2018 Pattern and Shadow, The Times Club Gallery, Iowa City, IA (solo)
2018 Couples Counseling, Ridgewood, Queens, NYC
2017 Brave New Work, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2017 Quorum, Organized by Regina Rex, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Nasty Women, Knockdown Center, Queens, NYC
2016 Cornucopia, Calico, Brooklyn, NYC
2016 Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, IA (solo)
2016 Alchemy, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NYC
2015 Hot Slice, curated Liz Nielsen & Carolina Wheat, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Of Boldness and Subtlety, curated by Gabrielle Garland, Hap Gallery, Portland OR
2014 Ducks, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 I'm Jealous of Your Failures, curated by Trew Shriefer, U of Illinois Springfield, IL
2014 OFFLINE, curated by Sarah Sharp, Radiator Gallery, LIC, NY
2014 Off the Wall, Parallel Gallery, Queens, NY
2014 Regina Rex: New Threads, Lamar Dodd School of Art, U of Georgia, Athens, GA
2013 Surface, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
2013 Bull & Ram Gallery, NYC (solo)
2013 Head, curated by Jeff Ostergren, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2012 Flashback (window installation), Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Regina Rex: Part II, Eli Ping Gallery, Lower East Side, NY
2011 Capella, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Still Life, Art Palace, Houston, TX
2011 The Myth and the Mountain, COHORT collective, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Heavy, Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 I Forgot My Mantra, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
2010 PIZZA, Ebersmoore, Chicago, IL (solo)
2010 Coil Contract, Horse Trader Projects, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
2010 Diamond in the Middle, SOFA, Austin, TX (solo)
2009 Artist Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2009 Harold Arts, NEXT Fair, Chicago
2009 Myth in Material, curated by Elizabeth Chodos, Alogon Gallery, Chicago
2009 Suspend, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago
2008 Mise en Scène, Mini Dutch, Chicago, IL (solo)
2008 Here and Now, Threewalls, Chicago, IL (solo)
2008 An Associate Degree in Science, The Finch Gallery, Chicago
& The Pampered Banana, Kansas City (traveling)
2008 Bitchen,' curated by Nina Rizzo, BadDogGallery, Dekalb, IL
2008 Old Gold Artists’ Project, NEXT Fair, Chicago
2008 Faculty Biennial, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2007 Open, Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco
2007 Making Faces, Old Gold, Chicago, IL (solo)
2007 Surroundings Revisited, curated by Per Knutas, Kent State University, Kent, OH
SELECTED NEWS ARCHIVE
Elisa Wouk Almino, A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine, 2020
Interview with Randee Silv, ARTEIDOLIA, 2019
Artist of the Week Interview in 2013 for LVL's Blog
The Chicago Reader included me in the 2008 Breakout Artists
Something practical I wrote in 2008 for Chicago Artists Resource
An intimate conversation with curator and friend Katie Geha
GET IN TOUCH
staciemaya [at] gmail [dot] com