Leasho Johnson
A Deep Haunting, 2022
It's the thug in me.., 2021
Neither Breathed Nor Held, 2021
See and Blind, Hear and Def, 2019
Stealing stories from the sky god (Anansi #3), 2020
Sometimes rage is not enough, 2021
...all that moved like a flood in him when we lay together at night (Anansi #12), 2022
Untitled 1 (Jigg-a-boo), 2022
Bent yet unyielding (Anansi #14), 2021
Who knew his speech and silence, knew his arms, did not carry a knife, 2021
Love in the darkness but never in the day (Anansi #9), 2020
The scam had a rhythm (Anansi #15), 2021
Untitled (Twin portraits), 2021
A street becomes a stage (Anansi #13), 2021
The subject of brother snake (Anansi #10), 2021
Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh, 2021
On the river, Pon di bank (Anansi #11), 2021
Needle-eye (2021)
Shut you mouth, with you little bit a money, 2022
Leasho Johnson, born in 1984, is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, queer, and male to explore concepts around forming an identity within the post-colonial condition within Jamaican Dancehall street culture.
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Exhibitions
2022
A Deep Haunting | June 23 - July 23, 2022
Fairs
2024
ARCOMadrid | Madrid, Spain (group presentation)
2023
EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (group presentation)
The Armory Show, New York, NY, USA (group presentation)
2021
Future Fairs NY, New York, NY, USA (group presentation)