Breanne Johnson is an artist and designer working in Mexico City. She holds a Masters of Fine Art in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Bachelor of Art degrees in Visual Art and Political Science from the University of Chicago. Born in California, Breanne shares citizenship with the United States and Curaçao. Her practice focuses on phenomenological furniture, objects, happenings, infrastructures and provisionally scaled architectures that examine our relationship to the social and physical spaces we inhabit, in pursuit of deeper spatial awareness, social connection, self-embodiment and greater authenticity. In her preeminent pillar of inquiry, she employs the acts of listening, cooking, and the ritual of eating. She proposes speakers, objects and spaces for listening, as well as unconventional, often mobile or outdoor kitchens, service stations, architectural interventions and alternative dining tables. She works often with and within systems, thinking about the way objects, architectures and component parts inform each other and work in tandem. In creating artworks that facilitate happenings, she uses design, architecture and activation as tools to generate interactions, either with oneself or with others. Breanne identifies strongly as a creative problem solver, and grapples with a diverse range of problems through a diverse range of media. In 2025 Breanne’s work was featured by Mold Magazine and the Korean print magazine Design. She was a 2024 Artist in Residence with Praksis Oslo, a 2023 Open Studio Art Resident with Haystack School, the recipient of the 2023 CAA Ox-Bow School Art Course Award, the recipient of the 2022 Pophouse Design Fellowship, and a 2021 Artist in Residence with Chop Wood Carry Water.



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Contact: bree.i.johnson@gmail.com