Kyle Bellucci Johanson

Kyle Bellucci Johanson works in performance architecture, situating objects, language, and media to visualize and critique power structures and instigate imaginary futures. From 2018 to 2022, he founded and directed table, a project space in Chicago dedicated to situating artists' practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Recent exhibitions include council_st, Los Angeles; Feiertag, Kassel; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago; and Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador. In addition to Cornell AAP, he has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the City University of New York, and facilitated admissions for The Cooper Union.

Johanson holds a B.A. in Art and Reconciliation Studies from Bethel University and studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He completed an M.F.A. at the California Institute of the Arts and was a founding fellow of at land's edge, an artist-led, autonomous, free school focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across East and South Los Angeles. Johanson was a 2022–23 participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Drawing
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • International studies in planning
  • Performance art
  • Public art
  • Sculpture
  • Technology and art
  • Architectural drawing
  • Performance architecture
  • Critical theory
  • Historical materialism
  • Hauntology
  • Transdisciplinary practice

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Classes (Selected)

  • ART 2401 Introduction to Sculpture
  • ART 3499/5499 Advanced Sculpture: Spectral Situations

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Creative Research Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2025)
  • Independent Study Program, Studio, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2022–23)
  • Studio Residency, Automata, Los Angeles, CA (2022)
  • Artists Run Chicago Grant, Chicago, IL (2021)
  • BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL 2020–21

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • KLUB WRKR, solo exhibition at council_st, Los Angeles, CA (2024)
  • untitled billboard (generic love), public art commission for Feiertag, Kassel, Germany (2023)
  • Another Idea: an actual conceptual art exhibition, group exhibition at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Curators: Zachary Cahill and Michael Schuh) (2020)

Publications (Selected)

  • Bellucci Johanson, Kyle. "Friend of the Program," No Necessary Correspondence: Exhibition Catalog, (Whitney Independent Study Program, 2023).
  • Bellucci Johanson, Kyle, Lax, Matthew, and Lopez-Menendez, Clara. Making Plans, (Human Resources, 2018).

Selected Work

  • A large white room with a neon red sign on the left wall, a wooden sculpture in the middle of the floor, and a person sitting at a desk in the background.

    KLUB WRKR (2024), installation view at council_st, Los Angeles. image / provided

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