LACEY JOHNSON
From: Houston, Tx
Based in: Oakland, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 Resort of Sexual Deviancy: The Art Show, MOTHER, SF
2025 Salesforce Tower Day To Night Video Series, SF
2023 Cave Babe, Four Chickens Gallery, SF
2022 Matryoshka Transformers and Friends, Burb Contemporary, Sacramento
2016 Live From the Feminine Divine, Down at Lulu’s, Oakland
2016 ANSWERS, Less Space Gallery, Oakland
2016 Safe Space Haunted House, E.M.Wolfman Books, Oakland
2016 REPULSE-tery, (installation), Urban Ore, Berkeley
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 We Can Love It Together: A Creativity Explored Short Film Festival, YBCA
2026 Salesforce tower Day To Night Video Series, (collaboration with Andrew Bixler)
2025 BrynMar Film Festival collaborative videos with Andrew Bixler & Ade Lewis
2025 Salesforce tower Day To Night Video Series, (collaboration with Kai Wai and Hung Kai)
2024 Salesforce tower Day To Night Video Series (collaboration with Lakeisha King)
2023 Towards A World Without Karens, The People’s House, Oakland
2023 Undercommons Archive, Adobe Books, SF
2023 Into the Brightness: Artists From Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD, OMCA, Oakland
2023 HEAVEN, Hot House Gallery, SF (curation and showing of short film Become Like Honey, in collaboration with Samedi Djeinguero)
2023 Ode to San Francisco: Recology Celebrates Recology Alumni Living in The City, Four Chickens Gallery, SF
2023 More Is More, Hot House Gallery, SF
2023 Salesforce Tower Day to Night Video Series (collaboration with Samedi Djeinguero)
2023 Become Like Life Golden, Creativity Explored at Recology, Recology SF
2022 Hella Feminist: An Exhibition (collaboration with Inés Ixierda) OMCA, Oakland
2022 Chalkhill Alumni Group Exhibition, Healdsburg CA
2022 Salesforce Tower Day to Night Video Series (collaboration with Ethel Revita)
2021 Bay Area Media Makers Summit Short Film Fest, Roxie Theater, SF
2021 Mode Brut, Museum of Craft and Design (collaboration with Creativity Explored) SF
2019 Aggregate Space Film Festival, Roxie Theater, SF
2019 The Lesbian Lexicon, Hit Gallery, SF
2019 Precarious Lives Film Night Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts, SF,
2019 Sensual Organic Algorithms, LucasLucas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Leftovers, Slidespace 123, Oakland
2019 Abolition Now! Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Feminist Work in Progress Video Night, Artist Television Access, SF
2019 Shelf Life; Mills College MFA Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland
2018 Fumigator, opening performance for Sophie Ramos’s Room to Breathe, The Guardhouse, Fort Mason, SF
2018 Portals: A Group Show of Speculative Fictions, San Francisco Public Library, SF
2018 Potluck, Slidespace 123, Oakland
2017 Site Unscene, Roll Up Gallery, Oakland
2016 Hex and The Monstrous Feminine, Twilight Gallery, Seattle
2016 Hex Work: DIY MFA Thesis Exhibtion, Qulture Collective, Oakland
2016 DIY MFA Group Show at The Open Engagement Conference, OMNI Commons, Oakland
2016 Octavia’s Attic: Artifacts from Our Possible Futures, Live Worms Gallery, SF
2015 F#ck Gender, Rock Paper Scissors, Oakland
2015 Ya’ll Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration, National Queer Arts Festival, The GLBT Center, San Francisco
2015 The Lesbian Lexicon, The Tenderloin National Forest, San Francisco
2015 Outside The Frame Film Festival. (Showing of short film, Shit Manarchists Say) The Brava Theater, San Francisco
2006- 2008 (annually) Coalition on Homelessness Annual Fundraiser, SOMArts, SF
2006 Drawing from Life: Sketchbooks in Bay Area Ecology, City College of San Francisco Library, SF
2005 The RAIN Event: Postcards to the CAC, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
2004 Books to Prisoners Art Exhibition, The Country Club, New Orleans
2004 Revolution is One Form of Social Change, Royal Grounds Coffee, New Orleans
Commissions & Collections:
2023 Commission: Recology AIR Documentary, director/editor
2023 Public Collection: Hex the Patriarchy, Oakland Museum of California
Publications:
All Illustrations, The Polyamory Breakup Book, Kathy Labriola, Thorntree Press, 2019
Illustration: The Tower Card, Uproot: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State, Haymarket Books, 2022
Photo documentation of work, Art is Art, Collaborating with Neurodiverse Artists at Creativity Explored, Chronicle Books, 2023
Talks & Lectures:
2026 Dyke BARchives Artist Talk, at Directory of Dreams, GLBT Historical Society
2024 Collaborative Praxis, Teaching Artists Talk To Museum Educators
2023 Archives & BARchives Artist Talk for undergraduate class: Interpreting the Queer Past: Methods and Problems in the History of Sexuality, UC Berkeley
2023 Disability Justice Tour of Into the Brightness at OMCA for undergraduate class: Gender, Race, Nation, and Health, UC Berkeley
2020 Artist Talk, Graduate MFA Lecture Class, Mills College
2019 Advice for Young Artists, for undergraduate class: Fine Arts Senior Seminar, Mills College
2016 Artist Talk: Comics Are Your Therapy Cat, EM Wolfman Books, Oakland
Education:
2019 MFA in Studio Art, Mills College
2007 BA in Humanities New College of California
2006-2007 American Conservatory Theater Properties Apprenticeship
Residencies:
2026 Creative Growth Digital Media AIR
2026 YBCA (collaboration with Creativity Explored)
2023 MOTHER SF (ongoing)
2022/2023 Recology SF (collaboration with Creativity Explored)
2022 Burb Contemporary
2021 Chalk Hill Artist Residency
2020 KALA Honorary Media Arts AIR
2020 [x]space Resident Artist (exhibition canceled due to COVID-19)
2019 Prelinger Library Artist in Residence