Signed copy of photographer David Johnson’s book It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival.

Limited copies available

About the Artist
David Johnson is an artist, educator, and curator based in Iowa City, IA. He received his MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, and earned his BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Photography from Texas Christian University. In 2011, David was awarded the Great Rivers Visual Arts Award from the Gateway Foundation. This biennial award culminated with his 2012 exhibition institutional etiquette and strange overtones at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis. Wig Heavier than a Boot, a collaborative project with poet Philip Matthews, was published by Kris Graces Projects in 2019, and was featured at the 2020 Fotofest Biennial in Houston. The University of Texas Press will publish Johnson’s second book, It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival in March 2021.

Johnson’s photographs have been exhibited internationally, including the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, National Building Museum in Washington D.C., and Rathaus in Stuttgart, Germany. His work can be found in the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Don’t Take Pictures, the Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, Photo-Emphasis, and Fraction Magazine have featured his work online. David has curated exhibitions for Center for Creative Arts, Paul Artspace, and the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Louis.