Ezra Johnson

Ezra Johnson is a painter based between Tampa, New York and London. Born in Wenatchee, Washington, he received his MFA from Hunter College in 2006 and has since had his work exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Site Santa Fe, and the ICA in Philadelphia.

Deeply reverential of historical painting traditions, subjects and techniques, his work approaches them with a contemporary lens. His past subjects have included still lifes in the tradition of Giorgio Morandi made up of trash, Impressionistic vases of flowers on cluttered tables and shadowy cityscapes that capture the atmosphere of Tampa, which he describes as “tropical noir”.