Martine Johanna lives and works in Zetten, The Netherlands.

Martine Johanna is an artist known for her vivid paintings with both figurative and abstract elements. Her autobiographical works, seemingly lighthearted, explore the duality between youthful naivety and anxiety-riddled adulthood. The figures, fierce but fragile, crowd the compositions and occupy the majority of the space gazing distractedly into the beyond. Each of Johanna’s delicately rendered figures convey a sense of immersion within their own “internal psychic landscape.” The work is imbued with a mysterious narrative and sensation of knowing that each character in the work has a full and complex history that the viewer can never completely comprehend. The paintings have a signature prismatic palette, visually stimulating and playful while expressing an underlying sense of uncertainty and unrest.
Martine Johanna has had international success exhibiting extensively in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspiration for her work include a mixture of childhood and autobiographical memories and experiences, documentaries on human nature, independent films and history.

EDUCATION

1999 MA, ArtEZ – Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, NL
1997 BA, ArtEZ – Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, NL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
Balancing Act, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

2019
Willie Green: Press Play, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

2018
(Solo) Life is but a dream, Massey Klein, New York, NY
hands on, Massey Klein, New York, NY

2017
(Solo) Something's Wrong, Massey Lyuben Gallery, New York, NY

2016
(Solo) Dancer, Spoke Art, San Francisco, US
Summer Collective, Massey Lyuben Gallery, New York, US
(Solo) Happy Days, Bright Side Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Welcome to the Bright Side, Bright Side Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Format Neon, Massey Lyuben Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Nyctophilia, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Wes Anderson – Bad Dads, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, US
KunstRai with Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The Moleskine Project, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, US
12x12 Exhibition, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, US
Quotes, Lines & Lyrics, Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles, US
PRISMA Collective, Spoke Art, San Francisco, US

2014
(Solo) The Grand Illusion of Sanity, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Imagined Worlds, Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Last Breath of Summer, Subtext Gallery, San Diego, US
King For A Day, Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Miscellaneous, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Imagined Worlds, Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Supersonic, Spoke Art, San Francisco, US

2013
AMC Walking Dead Exhibition, Hero Complex Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Summer Collection, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
On Paper, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Realisme Amsterdam with Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2012
While We Wait for the Sun to Come (duo), Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
MOAM – Fashion Exhibition, Galerie Fontana Fortuna, Amsterdam, NL
Windows to Wonder, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Winter Encounters, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Collectie Imaginaire, BuroRotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

2011
Utopia (duo), Sprmrkt, Amsterdam, NL
Martine Johanna & Louis Reith (duo), Sprmrkt, Amsterdam, NL
Collectie Imaginaire, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Prints And The Revolution, Pop-up Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
In with December, Out with January, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL

2010
(Solo) Souvenir, By AMFI, Amsterdam, NL
Concrete Playground, Heimat Design Gallery, Dortmund, DE
Popjugend, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Prints And The Revolution, Pop-up Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Nuit Blanche, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam, NL
Shuffle, Hibbleton Gallery, Fullerton, US

2009
Flight Tagger, De Prins, Amsterdam, NL
DONA Showcase, Espai Cromatic, Spain, ES
Prints And The Revolution, Pop-up Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2008
(Solo) Blackboard, Sid Lee Collective, Amsterdam, NL
Prints And The Revolution, Pop-up Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS

2015
Nyctophilia, WA//S Gallery, Amsterdam, NL