Education and Workshops 2007 Tougaloo Art Colony, Tougaloo, MS 1974 Morehouse College – B.A., Political Science
Literary Awards, Residencies, Grants 2009 Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers, International Residency Fellowship, Balgowan, South Africa, Fulton County Arts Council, Fulton County, GA
Artists Registry 2012 Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs National Artist Registry
Teaching/Speaking/Community 2011 The Crayons Girls Draw With, Self-Development Group - Re-purposed Object Art Workshop - Kennedy Middle School, Atlanta, GA - December 2009 Art as Social Action – Community Art Project – Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 2008 Art as Social Action – Community Art Project – Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 2007 Art as Social Action – Community Art Project – Spelman College, Atlanta, GA Sisters Nineties Literary Group – Writers Workshop – St. Louis, MO – February 2005 Sisters Nineties Literary Group – Writers Workshop – St. Louis, MO – June 2004 Thomas G. Pullen Middle School – 5th-8th Grade - Imani Cheers, Instr.- Capital Heights, MD - September 27 Sisters Nineties Literary Group – Writers Workshop – St. Louis, MO – September 18 Yari Yari Literary Group – D. Morrowloving, Founder – St. Louis, MO – July 20 Gems and Jewels – Kathy Nesbit, Admin. – Atlanta, GA - July 14 Benjamin S. Carr Honors Middle School – Atlanta, GA - March 3 Poetry Readings 2018 Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA - Felton Eaddy's Poetry Kitchen, Featured Artist - August 31 2011 Java Monkey Coffeehouse, Decatur, GA – Featured Artist – September 18 2009 The Slavery Chronicles, Wood is Wonderful Gallery- Atlanta, GA – Featured Artist – June 26 2008 Java Monkey Coffeehouse, Decatur, GA – Featured Artist – August 3 2007 The Apex Museum – Slavery: Telling the Next Generation – Featured Artist - November 10 Auburn Avenue Research Library – The Black Man Film Festival – November 3 Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, GA – Crux: South Africa to South USA, Reception – October 19 The Apex Museum – National Black Arts Festival – Featured Artist - July 21 2006 First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, Lithonia, GA – Featured Artist - Kwanzaa Celebration - December 2005 Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA – Featured Poet – November 9 2004 Kwanzaa Celebration - St. Louis, MO - December Kwanzaa House – Reading and Book Signing – Columbia, SC – September 11 Radio Interview – 620AM – Host, Don Ferguson – Columbia, SC – September 8 Schlafly Branch Library, St. Louis, MO – April 19 Benjamin S. Carr Honors Preparatory Middle School – Atlanta, GA - March 3 The LINKS, Inc. - Atlanta, GA - February 7
Artist Organizations and Affiliations 2013 African Americans for the Arts, Atlanta, GA – Member 2011 – 2012 African Americans for the Arts, Atlanta, GA – Board Member 2008 – 2010 African Americans for the Arts, Atlanta, GA – President, Board Member 2006 – 2007 African Americans for the Arts, Atlanta, GA – Board Member 2003 – 2007 Sisters Nineties Literary Group, St. Louis, MO
Visual Art Awards, Residencies, Grants, Fellowships 2022 Best of Show, Reimagine Peace: The Art of Resistance, Juried Art Exhibition, (Charmaine Minniefield, Guest Judge), ArtsXchange Community Cultural Center - Atlanta, GA 2018 L. A. Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Honorable Mention, Georgia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, (Laura Hathaway, Guest Judge), Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA 2014 Artist Grant, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA 2010 Best of Show, Holidays Aglow, (K. Joy Peters, Guest Judge), Stuart McClean Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2009 Best of Show, Holidays Aglow, Mapenzi, (Dr. Michael Simanga, Guest Judge), Southwest Art Center, Fulton County, GA Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers, International Residency Fellowship, Balgowan, South Africa, Fulton County Arts Council, Fulton County, GA 2007 Honorable Mention, Holidays Aglow, (Brian Hebert, Guest Judge), Southwest Art Center, Fulton County, GA
Selected Solo & Two Person Art Exhibitions 2022 Confluence: The Art of F. Geoffrey Johnson, Curated by Kevin Sipp, Chastain Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA - February 11, 2022 - April 8, 2022 2015 Then and Now, Art of F. Geoffrey Johnson, Riverdale Center, Riverdale, GA - February 6, 2015 - March 12, 2015 2011-2012 Love &...Hear Me Now!, Lamar Arts Center & Gallery, Barnesville, GA – December 23, 2011 - February 25, 2012 2011 CURRENTS, AFSC Georgia Peace Center Gallery, Curated by Alice Lovelace, Atlanta, GA – November 5 - December 10
Selected Group Art Exhibitions 2023 Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists, Curated by Jonette O'Kelley Miller and Karen E Gersch, Art/Design/Spirit Gallery - Newburgh, NY February 3 - March 3 2022 Reimagine Peace: The Art of Resistance, A Juried Exhibition, Jack Sinclair Gallery, ArtsXchange Community Cultural Center - Atlanta, GA - July 29 - September 9 Protest Signs Juried Art Exhibition, UNCW CAB Art Gallery, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Wilmington, NC - February 24 - April 1 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, ILL. - January 17 - April 17 2018 Georgia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA, - May 4 - June 15 2017 150 Years of Perseverance, Progress and Promise, An Exhibition of Visual Arts Representing the History and Culture of Alabama State University - The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture, Montgomery, AL - February 19 - December 2 - Juried 2013 Birmingham 2013: Remembering the Movement That Changed the World, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL November 6 - December 27, Dr. William E. Colvin, Curator From the Mountain Top, Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, GA – February 2012-2013 Holidays Aglow, Stuart McClean Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA – December 2 - January 6 2012 Artist Expulsed From Art Basel Miami Beach for Peaceful Anti-Homelessness Demonstration, December 6 & 7 Metro Montage XII, Marietta / Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA - July 7- September 9, Juried Upcycle...dreaming it out of the waste system, ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA - April 22 - June 24, Juried Dialogue: Past, Present, Future, Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, GA – February 2011-2012 Holidays Aglow, Stuart McClean Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA – December 9 - January 3 2011 Elevate / Art Above Underground, Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA - August 26 - October 29, Juried Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, GA – February “African Americans for the Arts, Recent Works” – Cultural Arts Council of Douglassville, Douglassville, GA – January 18 – February 28 2010 Holidays Aglow, Mapenzi, Stuart McClean Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA – December 3-17 "The Dream Continues", The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL “Nina: No Illusions, No Escape”, Nina Simone Legacy Project Invitational, Atlanta, GA – April 16-20 Exhibition of Caversham Prints, Southwest Arts Center Performance Theater Gallery - Atlanta, GA – January 23 – March 25 Fort Valley State University – Fort Valley, GA – January – February, Juried 2009 A Long Time Comin' : From Toil and Tears to Triumph,The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture, Montgomery, AL 2008 Digital Arts Studio, Atlanta, GA – November – December ArtWalk Harlem, Indigo Arms Guest House Gallery - New York, NY – October AAFTA, Gallery One Eleven, Eatonton, GA – February, Juried AAFTA, Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, GA – February, Juried 2007-2008 Holidays Aglow, Southwest Art Center, Fulton County, GA – December – January, Juried 2007 Crossroads, Lucy Craft Laney Museum, Augusta, GA – September - November, Juried Atlanta Jazz Festival Emerging Artists, Atlanta, GA – May, Juried Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, GA – February, Juried 2006-2007 Holidays Aglow, Southwest Art Center, Fulton County, GA – December – January, Juried Art and Poetry Catalogues / Video / Press / Other 2022 Representing Ourselves / Surveying Works by African American Artists from the 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries' / Jonette O' Kelley Miller | JOM.Writes ARTSATL - Cullum’s Notebook: Exhibits at three off-the-beaten-path galleries deserve a visit / Confluence: The Art of F. Geoffrey Johnson / April 4, 2022 GMR Online: eight years - Green Mountains Review Online Mar 31, 2022 2019 Flyway Journal of Art & Environment, Winter 2019 Issue, an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction and visual art-based out of Iowa State University 2018 Panel Discussion - Gallery 72, Memory, Race and Erasure in Urban Atlanta, Panelists - Paul Crater, Maurice J. Hobson, F. Geoffrey Johnson, Mtamanika Youngblood. Moderator - Susan Todd-Raque, July 27, 2018 Panel Discussion - Gallery 72 Panel Discussion: The Art and Ecology of Recycling, Artists, Steven Steinman, Lonnie Holley, Corrina Sephora. Moderator - F. Geoffrey Johnson, January 4, 2018 2015 Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, African American Poetry p. 42 2013 Panel 03 • Umass Contemporary Art Museum Dubois in Our Time Symposium (Video), September 28, 2013 Book - 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, by Ben Davis, Haymarket Books, Publisher, Chapter Sixteen, pp. 175-176 2012 BLOUINARTINFO - Artist Expulsed From Art Basel Miami Beach for Peaceful Anti-Homelessness Demonstration Elevate: Art Above Underground - Exhibition Catalog, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs 2011 Currents: Black Men's Cultural Activism - www.afsc.org/event/currents-black-mens-cultural-activism-visual-arts-exhibit-poetry-music-and-film Armed with Art :Radcliffe Bailey, AWA Founder & Artist, Kerly Suffren & Artist, F. Geoffrey Johnson for CURRENTS Exhibit 2010 "The Dream Continues - Exhibition Catalog, The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University 2009 A Long Time Comin' : From Toil and Tears to Triumph - Exhibition Catalog, The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University Panel Discussion: The Ways and Means of Making Art, Panelists, Dr. Tina Dunkley, Artist, Ed Spriggs, Artist & Curator, Kevin Sipp, Artist & Curator, Radcliffe Bailey, Artist, Curly Suffren, Artist, F. Geoffrey Johnson, Moderator 2005 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature: Volume I, A-C, African American Poetry, pp. 86-87
Collections Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers, Balgowan, South Africa Fulton County, Georgia Private collectors