Kyle Bellucci Johanson

Kyle Bellucci Johanson works in performance architecture, situating objects, language, and media to visualize and critique power structures and instigate imaginary futures. From 2018 to 2022, he founded and directed table, a project space in Chicago dedicated to situating artists’ practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Recent exhibitions include council_st, Los Angeles; Feiertag, Kassel; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago; and Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador. In addition to Cornell AAP, he has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the City University of New York, and facilitated admissions for The Cooper Union.

Johanson holds a B.A. in Art and Reconciliation Studies from Bethel University and studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He completed an M.F.A. at the California Institute of the Arts and was a founding fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, free school focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across East and South Los Angeles. Johanson was a 2022–23 participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program.