Jess Johnson

New Zealander | 1979

Jess Johnson is a New Zealander Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1979. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) have featured Jess Johnson's work in the past.Jess Johnson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 185 USD to 3,521 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2017 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,521 USD for Endless Future Terror Forever, sold at Webb's in 2024. Jess Johnson has been featured in articles for Ocula, ArtDaily and HYPEBEAST. The most recent article is Top Five: April 4, 2024 written for Glasstire in April 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Outer Like the Inner

By Jess Johnson

WWW ,2014

By Jess Johnson

Outer Like the Inner

By Jess Johnson

VIEW 17 ARTWORKS

Recent Auction Results

Outer Like the Inner

By Jess Johnson

-9%

below mid-estimate

Webb's

Endless Future Terror Forever - Jess Johnson

Endless Future Terror Forever ,2015

By Jess Johnson

-13%

below mid-estimate

Webb's

Pansermia Sing Omega

By Jess Johnson

Webb's

VIEW 17 AUCTION RESULTS

Past Exhibitions

Nanzuka Drawing Show

Nanzuka 2G

Shibuya-ku | Tokyo | Japan

Nov 29,2024 - Dec 15,2024

Both Body & Not

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG)

Mornington | Australia

Jun 22,2024 - Aug 18,2024

Group Exhibition

Darren Knight Gallery

Sydney | Australia

Jun 08,2024 - Jun 29,2024

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Articles

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Coverage

“ ..Appearing to draw on arcane imagery and science-fiction, Johnson’s drawings have developed their own complex visual cosmology and heavily reference one another... ”
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Fremantle Arts Centre

“ ..Jess Johnson’s drawings depict thresholds into infinitely larger worlds... ”
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Jack Hanley Gallery, New York

“ ..By presenting such a complex cosmos as her own, Johnson challenges the accustomed thought that reality is constant and absolute... ”
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Jack Hanley Gallery, New York

“ ..Instead of one fixed reality, Johnson shows how new worlds can manifest through the human minds unique capacity for imaging existences outside our own... ”
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Jack Hanley Gallery, New York

“ ..Johnson’s laborious and carefully hand-crafted drawings manifest a fictional world of genderless flesh-colored humanoids, bat-faced aliens, and worms that slither through monumental architectures of unknown... ”
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Jack Hanley Gallery, New York