Education
MFA, School of the Arts Institute, Painting and Drawing, 2020
BFA, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing arts, 2009
Awards
Jamaica Art Society Fellowship, 2021-2022
Leslie Lohman Museum, fellowship, 2020-2021
SAIC, New Artist Society Scholarship, 2018
Davidoff Art Initiative Recipient, 2016
Residencies
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, 2022
Residency Unlimited, New York, 2016
Bluecoat, Liverpool United Kingdom, 2016
Caribbean Linked III, Ateliers’ 89, Aruba, 2015
Artist Residency at NLS Kingston, jamaica, 2014
Solo Exhibitions
"Somewhere between the eyes and the heart," Western Exhibitions, Chicago, 2023
“The Love of Men and the Fear of Stones,” Harpers Gallery, New York, 2022
“A Deep Haunting,” TERN Gallery, Nassau Bahamas, 2022
“Out & Bad,” FLXST Gallery, Chicago, 2021
“Only when it’s dark enough can you see the stars,” Chicago, 2020
“Bellisario & the Soundboy,” Kingston Jamaica, 2017
Group Exhibitions
'Between the Seams,' PM / AM Gallery, London, 2023
'Piccaso: 50 Years Later,' Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois, 2023
'Place-World,' Sean Horton Gallery, New York City, 2023
'Caribbean Revels,' Jupiter Contemporary, Miami Beach, Florida, 2023
Painting: New approaches, Pomona College, California, 2022
Pressure: Kingston Biennale, Kingston Jamaica, 2022
FIGURES, GROUNDS, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, 2022
Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery Ontario, Canada, 2022
Visualizing / Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery:
A Caribbean Archive, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2021
“For the birds” harpers Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 2021
“Notions of Self,” TERN Gallery, Bahamas, 2021
“Long Hello”, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, 2020
“Jamaica Jamaica”, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, 2020
“Resisting Paradise”, Darlin Foundation, Montreal, 2019
“Resisting Paradise”, Publica sponsored by Apexart, Puerto Rico, 2019
“I Shall Return again”, National Gallery West, Montego Bay, 2018
“Arrivants”, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 2018
“Jamaica Jamaica”, SESC São Paulo, Brazil, 2018
“No-Commission”, The Dean Collection, Miami Florida, 2017
“We have met Before”, British Council and National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston Jamaica, 2017
Third Horizon Film Festival - featured artist, O Cinema, Wynwood Miami Florida, 2017
“Of Skin & Sand”, National Gallery of Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas, 2017
“Jamaica Biennial”, National Gallery of Jamaica, 2017
“Jamaica Jamaica”, Philharmonie De Paris, Paris France, 2017
"Caribbean Queer Visualities", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Scotland, 2017
"Caribbean Queer Visualities", Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, 2016
"Jamaican Pulse", Royal West England Academy, Bristol United Kingdom, 2016
"Jamaican Routes", Punkt Ø Galleri F15 and Momentum, Moss Norway, 2016
“Jamaica Biennial”, National Gallery of Jamaica, 2014
“The Caribbean Queer Visualities Symposium,” Small Axe, Yale University Connecticut, 2014
(e)merge art fair, NLS Kingston and ARC magazine, Washington DC, 2014
MFG Trajectories, Mayers Fletcher & Gordon’s 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Jamaica, 2014
“FLOAT”, NLS Kingston Jamaica & Transformer Washington DC, 2014
“Dirty Crayons,” Victory Run, What’s On Cafe Kingston Jamaica, 2013
“National Biennial”, National Gallery of Jamaica, 2012
Super Plus under 40, Mutual Gallery Kingston Jamaica, 2012
“Who more Sci-Fi than us” Kade Gallery, Amersfoort the Netherlands, 2012
“Dirty Crayons” Red Bones Cafe, Kingston Jamaica, 2012
“Young Talent V”, National Gallery of Jamaica, 2010
“National Biennial”, National Gallery of Jamaica, 2010
“Art Fresh”, Mutual Gallery Kingston Jamaica, 2010
“Rockstone and Bootheel”, Real Art Ways, Connecticut, 2009
“Young Gifted and Black,” Studio 174, Jamaica, 2009
Final Year Exhibitions, Edna Manley College, Jamaica, 2009
Curator’s Selections Exhibition, Cag(e) Gallery, Edna Manley College, Jamaica, 2008
Publications
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/unveiling-the-depths-leasho-johnson-western-exhibitions/
FRIEZE: Leasho Johnson Has His Own Colour Theory by Rianna Jade Parker, 20 January 2023
TERN Gallery: What Lies in The Bush by Gervais Marsh, 22 June 2022
AMFM life: A Place to Inherit the Craft: Q&A with Leasho Johnson, by AMFM Life, 19 February 2021
Anansi as the Path Home, by Dr. Marsha Pearce, 22 July 2020