Andy Johnson (he/him) is a DC-based arts writer, editor, designer, and art historian. He is currently Senior Admin for GW’s Department of American Studies; contributing editor for Dirt; and adjunct faculty in Art History, teaching courses on queer art, photography, and visual culture. He previously served as Director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School, and editor/creative director of Archeion: Journal of Queer Archives, published by the Stonewall National Museum & Archives. He was the 2018 Apprentice Curator for the DC Arts Center, and a 2019 Visiting Arts Writer and Critic for The Chart.
While his research interests are multivalent, the core of his praxis invests in a politics of care, intimacy, and vulnerability—with particular focus on their emergence in art and visual culture, and impact on the human condition. He researches, writes, and teaches on topics including: the politics of care; affect, intimacy, and failure; feeling as knowledge; heteropatriarchy, whiteness, and masculinity; a queer politics of pleasure, the erotic, queer aesthetics, and queer art history. His work is influenced and informed by queer theory, queer-of-color critique, feminist and Black feminist theories, critical theory, affect theory, cultural studies, porn studies, performance studies, and sexuality studies. His curatorial and artistic interests center around photography, video, installation, performance art, and visual culture.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Adjunct Lecturer, College - Department of Art & Art History