About the Artist
Johnny Floyd (b. 1984, USA) is an artist based in Pine Lake, Georgia, whose practice examines the conditions through which identity is constructed, obscured, and recovered. Working primarily in painting while extending into sculptural and process-driven methodologies, Floyd approaches art making as a means of engaging the instability of memory, perception, and historical narrative.
His work is rooted in a sustained inquiry into the Black experience in the United States, often drawing from archival materials, vernacular imagery, and personal lineage to consider how histories are fragmented, withheld, or reconfigured over time. Through an improvisational approach to material and form, his paintings frequently emerge through accumulation, repetition, and revision, allowing images to hold multiple and sometimes conflicting states at once.
Johnny Floyd has presented work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Conduit Gallery, Dallas; the Houston Museum of African American Culture; and Olin Hall Galleries at Roanoke College. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Taubman Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, and the National Juneteenth Museum, among others. He is a former artist-in-residence at the McColl Center and is currently a 2025–26 Slavery North Artist-in-Residence Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Taubman Museum of Art, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and other public and private collections.