Åsa Johannesson

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• PhD

  School

  School of Arts & Humanities

  Programme

  Photography, 2014–2019

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  http://asajohannesson.com

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• Åsa Johannesson is a Swedish London based artist working with photography. Her work examines the relationship between the notions photograph, queer, and difference – predominantly through the lens of nonconforming gender. 

• Degrees

• BA (Hons) Photographic Arts, University of Westminster, 2006; MA Photography, Royal College of Art, 2009

• Experience

• Lecturer in Photography, University of Brighton, 2018-19; Visiting Lecturer in Photography, Royal College of Art, London, 2013-19; Visiting Lecturer in Photography, University of Westminster, London, 2011-19; Visiting Lecturer in Photography, University of Portsmouth, 2017; Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media specialising in Photography, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2012-13; Visiting Lecturer in Digital Photography, South Bank University, London, 2011-14; Research Assistant, Royal College of Art, London, 2009-12

• Exhibitions

• Entanglement: The Opera, Royal College of Art, London, 2019; FLIGHT MODE, Assembly Point, London, 2018; Flow & Flux, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art, London, 2018; Daybreak, Safehouse 1 & 2, London, 2017; Sight Unseen, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2017; Looking Out, Looking In, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden, 2016; Looking Out, Looking In, Photography and the Archive Research Centre, London, 2016; Looking Out, Looking In, MOCA London, London, 2015; The White Gaze, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, 2015; The Boy & The Twins, Gothenburg Biennale Extended, Gallery Panncentralen, Mariestad, 2013; The Boy & The Twins, Fotogalleriet [format], Malmö, 2011; The Boy & The Twins, Smålands museum, Växjö, 2011; Photo-ID, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, 2010; Shadow of a Doubt, Galerie Michel Jourmiac, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, 2009; Photo ID, The Forum, Norwich, 2009; Show RCA 2009, Royal College of Art, London, 2009; Surfacing, 12 Star Gallery, European Commission Office, London, 2009; The Terry O'Neill Award 2008, Fulham Palace, London, 2008; Moment, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia, 2008; NICE08, The Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, 2008; The Other, International Talent Support, Trieste, 2008; Fellow Travellers, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester, 2007

• Awards

• Helge Ax:son Johansons Stiftelse Scholarship, 2018; Royal College of Art Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation (RKEI) Scholarship, 2017; Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet Scholarship, 2017; The MEAD Residency at the British School at Rome, 2016; Helge Ax:son Johansons Stiftelse Scholarship, 2016; AHRC TECHNE Doctoral Training Stipend, 2014; Fabrikör J.L Eklunds Hantverksstiftelse, 2014; Växjö Stads Jubileumsfond Scholarship, 2014; Stiftelsen Gunvor Kamkes och Sven Joanns Minnesfonds Scholarship, 2010; Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundets stipendium, 2008; Stiftelsen Markussens studiefonds stipendium, 2008; Södrasmålands Kulturstipendium, 2007

• Conferences

• The Queering of Photography, Diversifying the Portrait: Image and Identity, Merton College, University of Oxford, 17 May 2019; Turn, Atmosphere, Practice Research Symposium, University of Surrey, Guildford, January 2018; The Gendering of the Photographic, Writing Photographs, Symposium, London College of Communication. London, UK, 1 June 2016; Queer Passing and Queer Aesthetics, Disrupting Visibility: The Politics of Passing, Conference, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, 12 June 2015; Failed Queerness, The Subjectivity and Feminisms Research, Symposium, Chelsea College of Art. London, UK, 12 February 2015

• Publications

• Clair Le Couteur and Åsa Johannesson, Nonbinary Difference: Dionysus, Arianna, and the Fictive Arts of Museum Photography, Gender, Sexuality, and the Museum: Activism, Unruliness, and Alterity, 2019; Cassius Matthias, Å, Yes & No, issue 03:01, 2017; Rose Robertson, Looking Out, Looking In, Zine, issue 02:01, 2017; Laura Guy, Queer in Practice, Source Photographic Review, Issue 79, 2014; Daniel Blight, Photography and the Fanatical Gaze in Åsa Johannesson’s Belonging, Philosophy of Photography, issue 03:01, 2012; Sophie Mörner, Masculine, Capricious, issue 12, 2012