PUBLIC PROJECTS
Public Art Commission, City of Austin, Art in Public Places (AIPP), Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX (upcoming)

Picnic, Commissioned by NYC Parks & Recreation and sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY. 2018  

Backyard Pool, at The Lot, Commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park and Rockrose Dev Corp., Long Island City, NY. 2014

A Public Pool, EAF 13: Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. 2013     

SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition Series, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX (upcoming)

Get me, don’t get me, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, TX. 2025

Currents 123: Tamara Johnson, Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM), St. Louis, MO. 2024

House Salad, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX. 2023

Squeeze, Tweeze, Please, MAD Arts, Dania Beach, FL. 2021

The Philosophy of Goo, (collaboration with Trey Burns), Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY. 2020

How to fold a fitted sheet, ex ovo projects, Dallas, TX. 2020 

Nasher Windows Series, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. 2020   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Who Made the Grasshopper?, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX. 2025

The Armory Show (FOCUS Section), New York, NY. 2025

Made You Look, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 2025

Funhouse, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, NY. 2025

Bushcrafters, The Second Act Gallery, London UK and Prism Contemporary, Blackburn, UK, 2024 

GUI/GOOEY, Plexus Projects, collaboration with Trey Burns, Brooklyn, NY. 2024 

Extra Taste, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY. 2024

Moon of a Moon, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX. 2023

Château Château mmxxiii, The Aldredge House, Dallas, TX. 2023

Breathing Among Werewolves, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, TX. 2023

(UUU) Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving: Reconsidering Cyberfeminism in 2021, New Art City (online), 2021

Continuum, Carillon Gallery at Tarrant County College South, Ft Worth, TX. 2020

Shady Acres, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2019

Intermediate, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern: Films, The Modern Museum, Ft. Worth, TX. 2019

Word/Play - SoundSpace, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. 2019

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 
Nasher Artist Grant, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. 2024

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Project Grant for Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Washington, DC. 2023-4

Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, MO. 2023

Moss/Chumley Award, Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. 2022

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant in conjunction with Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY. 2020 

Meadows Faculty Development Grant, Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dallas, TX. 2020-1

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Grant, Brooklyn, NY. 2018

TEACHING & RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Sculpture Area Head/Assistant Professor, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. 2024 - current

Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Co-founder/Co-Director of nonprofit outdoor sculpture park. 2018 - Current

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX. 2024

Teaching Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. 2023

Adjunct, Texas Christian University (TCU), Ft Worth, TX. 2021-2022

Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture, Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dallas, TX. 2018 - 2021

Robert Gober Studio, Project Manager/Assistant, New York, NY. 2012 - 2018

Janet Zweig, Project Manager/Assistant, New York, NY. 2012 - 2018

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
31st International Sculpture Conference, Presenter, Dallas, TX, 2025

Artist Conversation with Tamara Johnson + Trey Burns, B Scene, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. 2025

Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Artist Talk: Tamara Johnson, Moderated by Genny Cortinovis in conjunction with Solo Exhibition, Currents 123, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. 2024

Stream Trace Walk: Ghost Stream, Tamara Johnson + Trey Burns, in conjunction with Mary Miss in Groundswell: ‍ ‍Women of Land Art, Lecture and Publication, Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas, TX. 2023

Artist Conversation Moderated by Hannah Klemm, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX. 2023

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Soil, Surface, Sky: A Brief and Incomplete Site History of Sweet Pass, Ft Worth Modern Museum, Fort Worth, TX. 2022

Gallery Talk: The Interplay between Object & Image in the Meadows Museum, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX. 2022

Nasher Windows Artist Panel led by Leigh Arnold, Jed Morse and Catherine Craft, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. July 8, 2020

Visiting Artist & Lecture, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VA. 2019
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SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Zotos, John, Tamara Johnson, “Get Me, Don’t Get Me”, VAS Visual Art Source, Oct 17, 2025

Kazakina, Katya, At New York Fairs, Dealers Make Last-Minute Pivots, Seeking an Edge, artnet, Sept 5, 2025

Morgan, Kendall, Tamara Johnson serves up tasty metaphors at Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas Morning News, Aug 29, 2025

Lopez, Ana, Pewter: A Most Misunderstood Metal, SNAG Metalsmith Magazine, Vol 44, Autumn, 2024.

Guadagnino, Kate,Everyday Items, Carefully Fabricated by an Artist and on View in St. Louis, T Magazine,

New York Times, July 4, 2024

From the Artist: Tamara Johnson’s tickets more than silly relics of the past, 1 Fine Arts Blog, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Forever Blue Tape,The Nasher Magazine, Fall 2023

Purcell, Barbara, Handmade Readymades: Tamara Johnson’s Kitschy Kitchen Imposters in House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Southwest Contemporary, Aug 4, 2023

Avram, Danielle, In a west Dallas gallery, artist Tamara Johnson harnesses the power of goo, Dallas Morning News, October 17, 2020

Rockefeller, Hal, Women of Texas,, Less Than Half, July 27, 2020

Green, Tyler, No. 446: John Edmonds, Tamara Johnson, Modern Art Notes Podcast, May 21, 2020

EDUCATION 
MFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI
BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas @ Austin, Austin, TX