Susan R. Johnson constructs meticulously realized worlds that hold a mirror to our own while quietly insisting on their own logic. Working across installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, textiles, found objects, and artist books, her practice proceeds from a single animating conviction: that history is never neutral, and that its gaps, omissions, and distortions are as revealing as anything it chose to record. Her projects — which have ranged from immersive pseudo-scientific installations to intimate works on paper — probe the origins of museums, cabinets of curiosities, lost collections, the picturing of nature and women, the domestic universe, and consumer culture. Collectively, they resist easy categorization while building a body of work of sustained intellectual ambition and wit. Often site-responsive and developed in close collaboration with museums and libraries, Johnson's work has been presented in more than forty solo exhibitions across the United States and the United Kingdom. Her practice has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as by residencies at MacDowell, Art Omi, the Golden Foundation, Cité Internationale des Arts, and the American Academy in Rome. Born in San Francisco and raised between Los Angeles and the New York metropolitan area, Johnson earned an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Syracuse University, with additional study in London and Florence. She is a Professor of Art at St. Mary's College of Maryland and lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, and St. Mary's City, Maryland.