PUBLIC PROJECTS
2026
Public Art Commission, Art in Public Places (AIPP) Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX (upcoming)

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

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

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

SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2027
Solo Exhibition, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX (upcoming)

2025
Get me, don’t get me, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, TX (upcoming)

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

2023
House Salad, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

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

2020
The Philosophy of Goo, (collaboration with Trey Burns), Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
How to fold a fitted sheet, ex ovo, Dallas, TX 
Nasher Windows Series, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Who Made the Grasshopper?, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX (upcoming)
The Armory Show, New York, NY
Made You Look, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Funhouse, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, NY

2024
Bushcrafters, The Second Act Gallery, London UK and Prism Contemporary, Blackburn, UK 
GUI/GOOEY, Plexus Projects, collaboration with Trey Burns, Brooklyn, NY 
Extra Taste, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY

2023
Moon of a Moon, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
Château Château mmxxiii, The Aldredge House, Dallas, TX
Breathing Among Werewolves, Keijsers Koning, Dallas, TX

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

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

2019
Shady Acres, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Intermediate, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern: Films, The Modern Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Word/Play - SoundSpace, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 
2024
Nasher Artist Grant, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Project Grant for Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Washington, DC

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

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

2020
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant in conjunction with Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY 
Meadows Faculty Development Grant, Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dallas, TX

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
2025
31st International Sculpture Conference, Dallas, TX, Panelist (upcoming)
Artist Conversation with Tamara Johnson + Trey Burns, B Scene, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2024
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

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

2022
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Soil, Surface, Sky: A Brief and Incomplete Site History of Sweet Pass, Ft Worth Modern Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Gallery Talk: The Interplay between Object & Image in the Meadows Museum, Public Programming in conjunction with 2022 Moss/Chumley Award, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX

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

2019
Visiting Artist & Lecture, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VA

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Zotos, John, Tamara Johnson, “Get Me, Don’t Get Me”, VAS Visual Art Source, Oct 17, 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