© Simen Johan
Yossi Milo Gallery 245 Tenth Avenue 10001 New York États-Unis
For his ongoing series of images and sculptures, Until the Kingdom Comes, Simen Johan constructs unsettling natural worlds of psychological complexity. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan continues to create tension and blur the boundaries between opposing forces such as fear and love, fantasy and nightmare, the familiar and the otherworldly.
A solo exhibition entitled, Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes, was recently on view at the the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville and the 21c Museum in Louisville, KY, and will travel to the Southern Methodist University's Pollack Gallery this fall. The artist's work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts, Denmark; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Denver Art Museum, among others. Mr. Johan received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2009. He was born in Norway in 1973, raised in Sweden and lives and works in New York City.
© Simen Johan
Vignette © Simen Johan