Jane’a Johnson

Scholar and Curator; Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (USA)

Jane’a Johnson is a Curatorial Assistant at MoMA in New York. Previously, she was an editor at the Aperture Foundation in New York, and Artistic Director of Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam. She is a former Assistant Professor of Art and Design Theory, History, Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Rhode Island School of Design. Johnson received her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, Rhode Island, where she directed the Photographic Archives Research Group. Her research focuses on archives and the art, design and visual culture of the African diaspora. Johnson is the author of Past Made Present: Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic.

Portrait: © Lindsay Calmettes and Mandy Draper