John Edmonds
b. 1989, United States
John Edmonds (b. 1989) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
He has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Cincinnati Art Museum (2022); Foam, Amsterdam (2022); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2020–2021). Recent group exhibitions include Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, curated by Ashley James, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); Black Modernism – Africa and the Avantgarde, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (2022); The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2021); Ex-Africa: African Presences in Contemporary Art, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2021); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); and God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, curated by Hilton Als, David Zwirner, New York (2019). His work is included in public collections including MoMA, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim, all New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Edmonds is the recipient of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2021, the UOVO Prize 2021, and is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee for 2023-2024.