Johannah Herr - How to Hide an Empire
Cologne
November 12, 2022 – January 14, 2023
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XVIII (Phoenix Program), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
155 x 84 cm / 61 x 33 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XVII (Hawaii, 1893), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
160 x 91.5 cm / 63 x 36 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XVI (Marshall Islands, 1946-58), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
160 x 84 cm / 63 x 33 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XV (Operation Paper), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
160 x 86.5 cm / 63 x 34 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XIV (Congo, 1961), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
122 x 86.5 cm / 48 x 34 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XIII (Guatemala, 1954), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
122 x 86.5 cm / 48 x 34 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XII (Iran, 1953), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
122 x 86.5 cm / 48 x 34 in
Johannah Herr
American War Rug XI (Secret War In Laos), 2022
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
160 x 84 cm / 63 x 33 in
Johannah Herr
War Rug V (Flint Water Crisis), 2020
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
84 x 122 cm / 33 x 48 in
Johannah Herr
War Rug III (El Paso Shooting), 2020
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
71 x 122 cm / 28 x 48 in
Johannah Herr
War Rug VI (War on Drugs), 2020
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
183 x 84 cm / 72 x 33 in
Johannah Herr
War Rug IV (Las Vegas Shooting), 2020
Tufted rug using acrylic and wool yarn
71 x 122 cm / 28 x 48 in
BORN
1987, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
SELECTED SOLO + TWP PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Jabroni Smackdown: A Toxic Lovestory (1979-2023), FJORD, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2022
How to Hide an Empire, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany
I Have Seen the Future: The American Home, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY, USA
Power Lunch, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY, USA
Banana Republics, Smallbany, Albany, NY, USA
I Have Seen the Future, Field Projects, New York, NY, USA
2021
Above The Fruited Plain (America! America!), Geary Contemporary for NADA, House, New York, NY, USA
2020
Domestic Terrorism: War Rugs from America, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, NY, USA
Johannah Herr - New Works, Geary Contemporary for Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
Redaction Order, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
2018
Your Comfort is Attended by Permanent Violence, Bric Art FP, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Patenting Distraction, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017
Moll Madnoss, with Joseph Kraska, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2014
Eat With Both Mouths, Galeri Metropol, Tallinn, Estonia
Harlem/Haarlem, Chashama Windowspace Program, New York, NY, USA
2012
Homeland(s), Red Ger Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Beyond the Nuclear Family . EFA Project Space . New York, NY, USA
2021
Town Crier: Queer Storytelling, curated by Autumn Wallace, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany
Bananas, Fortmakers, New York, NY, USA
2020
Flat Files OyG: 2020, Ortega Y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019
Summer Exhibition, Wassiac Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
2018
Creative Time Summit in Miami, Curated by Stroboskop + The Muted Horn, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
System Processing, Sap, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
Oh What a World, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA
2017
Suspended States, Tesselate, Pontiac, MI, USA
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, RE:ARTSHOW, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Collider 8, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH , USA
2016
Water Tower Arts Festival, Nuance Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Tower of Babel, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Givatayim City Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel + Centro Per L’arte
Contemporanea, Trebisonda, Italy
The Real Real Spectacle, Cave, Detroit, MI, USA
2015
Flux, Sculpture X Symposium, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
Innbakaður Fiskur, SÍM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
/ \ , Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
2014
The Battery Project, Patarei Prison, Tallinn, Estonia
Temporary-Protected Spaces, Water Tower Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013
Beasts and Bodies, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Parsons Alumni Exhibition, Sheila Johnson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Collective Show, Neter, Mexico City, Mexico
Temporary-Protected Spaces, Water Tower Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
Drafted, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2011
Art on the Farm, Collaborative Concepts on Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY, USA
Post, Affordable Art Fair - Booth A11, New York, NY, USA
2010
A Liminal State, Art in Bushwick’s Beta Spaces, 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Bittersweet: The Chocolate Show, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Magicality, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Figment Art Festival, Governors Island, NY, USA
Works on Paper, Big & Small / Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA
Heed the Machine, Illustrious, St. Cecelia Convent, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Youth Cult, Dadapost, Berlin, Germany
Artists For: Haiti, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY, USA
2009
Beauteous Abjectus, Space Womb, Long Island City, NY, USA
Gruntwork, 31 Ebertystrasse, Berlin, Germany
Windows Brooklyn, Rapisarda, Brooklyn, NY, USA
I Love Everything, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY, USA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2024
PS169Q, Queens, NY, USA (Upcoming)
2021
Taking Stock, Brookfield Projects 1 Liberty Plaza, New York, NY, USA
2019
Currency, Brookfield Projects 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Currency II, Brookfield Projects, 1 MetroTech, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, + FELLOWSHIPS
2022
The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard, International Territory
2021
BRIClab, Contemporary Art Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019
Artist in Residence Fellowship, Vermont, Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
2018
Artist in Residence, Institute of ElectronicArts, Alfred University, Experimental Projects Residency, Alfred, NY, USA
Artist in Residence, Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY, USA
2017
Artist in Residence, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
2016
Cranbrook Oxbow Fellowship, Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI, USA
2015
Artist in Residence, SÍM, Reykjavik, Iceland
Distinguished Fellow, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, USA
Larson Travel Grant, Iceland
Cranbrook Merit Scholarship
2012
Fulbright Research Scholar, Mongolia
EDUCATION
Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI - MFA, 2016
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY - BFA, 2009
Chelsea College of Art, London, England - Exchange Program, 2008
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA
Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA
Gaa Projects is pleased to announce the opening of Johannah Herr’s solo exhibition, How to Hide an Empire. The show takes its name from Daniel Immerwahr’s book of the same name, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Herr mined the text for her research and presents a body of work concerned entirely with forgotten or unseen US imperialist aggression. The exhibition will open with a reception with the artist on Saturday, November 11, from 3 - 7 pm and will be on view through Saturday, January 7.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Town Crier: Queer Storytelling, a group exhibition featuring Dara Haskins, Johannah Herr, and Patricia Renee’ Thomas. This exhibition curated by Autumn Wallace on the occasion of Wallace’s solo exhibition, Ode to the Mercury Thermometer will run through Saturday, January 8, 2022.
