Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean descent from New York City. She received a BS in Art History and Museum Professions from The Fashion Institute of Technology. Johnson works from a critical framework of social architecture, in which she considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment.

Her curatorial contributions include black beyond: _assembly, alchemy, ascension (2022) at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Gallery of the New School; black beyond: _origins (2021) on New Art City; and The Complexity and Cost of Identity No. 1 (2021), staged at HOUSING. Johnson’s bylines include Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, SEEN Journal, Forgotten Lands, Hyperallergic, Lucy Writers Platform, and Studio Museum Magazine. She has been featured in It’s Nice That and Cult Classic.

Currently, Johnson is perfecting her nomenclature, Red Notes, a body of work that explores Black people’s psycho-spiritual relationship to the color red and how it conceptualizes in social space. With regard to color theory and synesthesia, Red Notes underscores the hyperactive elements of the chroma’s intensity that highlight a myriad of textures between body, memory, and environment to communicate desire or distress. Red Notes will exist as written texts and a series of live experiences.

[Email] shameekiasjohnson@gmail.com

[Instagram] @shameekia.shameekia.shameekia

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