tiffany m johnson is a research-based curator, memory worker, and budding land steward passionate about community building through imaginative, underground, and cooperative practices.
Last year, she completed the two-year Research and Development Lab+ Outside the Walls fellowship with Threewalls. As a fellow, she developed Uncounted and Counting, a multi-flag public installation at Rainbow Beach Park that speaks to the survivor-led anti-violence movement history in Chicago. For the exhibition, a spiral fuels and fills, at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, she featured a sound piece and poetic essay that intertwined historical, archival, and artistic sources to blur the lines between South African apartheid, the development of safari culture, and Western art. During the 2022 Anchor Curatorial Residency, she developed the group exhibition Finding Ceremony to examine the tension between safety, care, and (in)visibility of Black and Brown lives in public space.
tiffany attended SOAS, University of London, for her Master's in Migration and Diasporas Studies. In 2023 and 2024, while in residency at The Luminary and the Center for Afrofuturism, her studies continued through the ongoing independent research project on Black fugitive presence in ecological histories in the Midwest. Through a radical afrodiasporic lens, she is interested in rebuilding human-to-land relations and centering understudied subjects and community care systems.
