Stella Johnson

AWARDS

2019                Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist, Boston, MA

2018                Fulbright Specialist, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

2013                Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist, Boston, MA

2006                International Music and Art Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2006                Fulbright Specialist, Mexico

2003 - 2004     Fulbright Core Research Scholar, Mexico

1991    Cultural Collaborative Artist-In-Residence Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA

INTERVIEWS

NEWS

March 2021: Podcast: What Life Is Like – Documentary Photography, with Stella Johnson

August 2020: Learning to see in the Leica Camera Blog

March 2019: What Will You Remember

January 2019: The Candid Frame Interview with Ibarionex

December 2018: Miami Street Photography Festival Featured Artist

February-March 2018: Fulbright Specialist. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellin, Colombia

January 2018: Que Pasa Oaxaca, Santa Cultura-Oaxaca

April 2017: Re-Picture

June 2017: iFocus. into the world of Photography

January 2016 : Artist Residency, Girls' Club and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida

May 2013: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship-Finalist

April 2013 : Bus, Crete, Greece, 2011 was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas.

August 2012 : Stella Johnson: On Mood and Emotion by David Carol, Rangefinder Magazine.

September 23, 2011 : Panopticon Celebration is All-Encompassing. Photography Review, by Mark Feeney, Boston Globe.

September, 21, 2011: In Focus: Stella Johnson, Photographer and Writer Susan Burnstine's Blog

April 11, 2011: New York Photo Festival Blog, curated by Graham Letorney (Guest Curator, NPR Picture Show).

October 8, 2010: October First Thursday Art Review, Culture Mob Blog, Portland Oregon.

July 2010: Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Runner-Up. The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards

June 12- August 8, 2010: Off The Wall: Danforth Museum of Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Framingham, MA. Jurors: Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA, Boston, and Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of the ICA. Third Place Award. 

May 9, 2010: PRC's juried exhibit defies definition, PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW, By Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

March 2010: Ways of Light, Al Sol Portfolio, Leica Fotografie International Magazine

February 2, 2010: Haggerty Museum of Art's Subjective Truth, Art Review By Angelina Krahn, Express (pdf version)

December 3, 2009: An up-close look at life in cultures afar, By Mark Feeney, Photography Reviews, Boston Globe

November 12, 2009: 'Three Concerned Women' shines light on cultures around the world, By Chris Bergeron, MetroWest Weekend

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009, 2nd prize winner for single images

Gallery 303 presentation with photographer Stella Johnson is now available on the WGBH Forum Network.

"Thoughts on Photography" Audio Interview

April 2009 edition: Photo Art International, Nicaragua portfolio

January/February 2009: Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, Volume 26, Issue 1, featured photographer

August 2007: Publication of “AL SOL”

Summer 2007: Issue: SHOTS 96 Magazine

April-May 2007: Portfolio Contest Selection Spotlight in Black & White Magazine Issue 51

Spring 2007: Grant from the Music and Art Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein to publish monograph, “AL SOL” in association with the University of Maine Press and the University of Maine Museum of Art

January-May 2007: Visiting Scholar in the Visual Arts Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston MA