photo by dominick williams
glyneisha johnson is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and community caretaker archiving the inherent healing nature of matrilineal Blackness through processes of ethical collaboration informed by Black feminist scholarship.
she organizes workshops, spaces for communal reflection, produces publications, living archives, installation, and exhibition work examining the public and private experiential nature of the Black Interior as a source of refuge, healing, and imagination.
she is co-founder of strange fruit femmes, a Black and Brown femme lead collective that provides free programming for youth and adults centering transformative healing through the arts.
glyneisha is a 2024 futures fund grantee through the luminary arts in st louis, mo. she is a 2022 cultural producers grantee and 2020 charlotte st award fellow and recipient of the bryon c. cohen award through charlotte st foundation in kansas city, mo. she has exhibited, presented, and been in residence at arkansas museum of fine arts, art omi, bemis center for contemporary arts, juanita j. craft residency, the contemporary art museum of saint louis, the nerman museum of contemporary art, SCAD museum of art, springfield museum of art, and more.